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Delhi having second thoughts: officials: Sending of forces to Iraq
NEW DELHI, July 4: India is growing more reluctant to join any international peacekeeping force in Iraq because of increasing attacks on US troops there and lack of consensus at home,... 
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Turkish govt moves against family empire
ANKARA, July 4: Turkey’s ruling party on Friday appeared to have launched allout war on one of the country’s richest and most controversial families — seizing banks and power utilities and...
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Saddam’s message: text
 DUBAI, July 4: Following is a translation from Arabic of the audiotape of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein aired by the Al Jazeera satellite channel on Friday....
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Liberian president agrees to step down
MONROVIA, July 4: Liberia’s President Charles Taylor, under US pressure to quit, said on Friday he had agreed to step down but urged the world to send peacekeepers to prevent chaos...
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Bamiyan on UNESCO heritage list
 PARIS, July 4: Unesco has inscribed 24 new sites on its World Heritage List, including Afghanistan’s Bamiyan valley, and, for the first time, sites in Gambia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Sudan, the...
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Japan MPs okay troop deployment
TOKYO, July 4: Japan’s powerful lower house of parliament gave the go-ahead for the nation’s biggest foreign troop deployment since World War Two on Friday, passing a law that allows the...
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Riyadh, Sana’a to fight ‘terror’ jointly
RIYADH, July 4: Indicating new levels of coordination, the Yemeni minister of foreign affairs vowed in Sana’a before the start of the 15th session of the Saudi-Yemeni Coordination Council, due to...
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No plans for base in BD: US envoy
DHAKA, July 4: The American ambassador in Bangladesh has ruled out recent media speculations in Dhaka that the US plans to have a military base in Bangladesh....
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Briton jailed in Turkey
ISTANBUL, July 4: A Turkish court on Friday sentenced a British woman and her Turkish boyfriend to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking during a retrial, Anatolia news agency reported....
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Bush’s Africa trip: motive questioned
WASHINGTON: Will President George W. Bush’s first trip to Africa as president amount more to spin than to substance?...
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EU draws closer to US over GM foods
BRUSSELS: New genetically modified (GM) foods may be sold in the European Union for the first time, bringing the 15-nation grouping a step closer to ending a trade row with the...
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UN workers protest suspension of union
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations, which champions the cause of labour rights around the world, has shut down its own staff union, causing deep feelings of anger and resentment among hundreds...
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Conjoined Iranian twins face surgery
SINGAPORE: Iranian twins fused at the heads participated in prayers at the Singapore home of their new friends in a last get-together outside the hospital before unprecedented separation surgery on Sunday....
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Iraq invasion was brought forward: UK official
LONDON: The land invasion of Iraq was “brought forward” by 14 days, a top British military officer revealed on Thursday. Air Chief Marshal Malcolm Pledger, who was responsible for deploying equipment...
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