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Democrats call for investigation: Bush claim on WMDs
WASHINGTON, July 10: Several opposition lawmakers in the United States on Wednesday called for investigations to determine why President George Bush used false information to justify the invasion of Iraq.... 
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US, 10 other states plan arms trade interdiction
BRISBANE, July 10: A US-led group of 11 nations agreed Thursday to begin military training for a worldwide campaign to intercept land, sea and air shipments of banned weapons by rogue...
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US hopes to share ‘burden’: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, July 10: Washington hopes to share the cost and responsibility of the ongoing military occupation Iraq with a coalition of countries, NATO members playing a key role, top defense officials...
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Six women indicted in green card scam
NEW YORK, July 10: Six New York City women who had married illegal immigrants several times over so that the men they wed could stay in the United States were charged...
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Separated only in death, twins come home
TEHRAN, July 10: The bodies of Iranian twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani, whose bid to lead separate lives after 29 years joined at the head cost them their lives in a...
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Bush tells Botswana US will help fight AIDS
GABORONE, July 10: US President George W. Bush on Thursday vowed to help Botswana, which is battling the world’s highest rate of HIV/AIDS, and all of Africa turn the tide on...
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Army report demolishes ‘heroic’ tale
WASHINGTON, July 10: An official US Army report on Thursday demolished much of the myth of a young woman soldier who was captured in Iraq....
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EU constitution submitted to French academy
PARIS, July 10: Constitutional Convention President Valery Giscard d’Estaing has submitted the final version of the text of Europe’s new constitution to the Academie Francaise, the assembly of 40 specialists in...
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Pilots dazzle Srinagar residents
SRINAGAR, July 10: Indian air force jets and helicopters enthralled hundreds of residents here on Thursday during a rare and colourful display of aerobatics....
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Terrorism fears grip Moscow
MOSCOW, July 10: Russia faced mounting terrorism fears on Thursday after an attempt by a Chechen woman to blow up a restaurant in downtown Moscow left one person dead....
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Air crash survivor
KHARTOUM, July 10: A two-year-old boy who survived an air crash that killed the other 115 people on a Sudan Airways flight is to be flown to London for treatment, an...
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18 US firms face probe
WASHINGTON, July 10: Eighteen US companies are under investigation for allegedly selling hi-tech military equipment to Iran through a London-based front company, the Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement said on...
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Iranian protesters: few in number & leaderless
TEHRAN: Intimidated, leaderless and few in number, Iran’s pro-democracy protesters face an uncertain future with little to show for several nights of sporadic unrest against the country’s religious establishment....
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Bush evasive on WMD charges
WASHINGTON: The administration of President George W. Bush is finding itself increasingly beleaguered by growing charges by retired intelligence and foreign service officers that administration hawks exaggerated the threat posed by...
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Baathists seek new national identity
BAGHDAD: Saddam Hussein’s downfall and the dissolution of his Baath Party may have sounded the death knell for a pan-Arab ideology that was alien to many Iraqis....
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BBC cements its independence
LONDON: The BBC can rightly claim that its row with Tony Blair’s administration has cemented its independence from government, analysts said on Tuesday. But neither side has emerged unscathed in the...
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US president gets the cold shoulder in Africa
PRETORIA: President Bush received a cool reception on Wednesday in the capital of Africa’s largest economic power, as opinion leaders here and across the continent complained about his policies on Iraq,...
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Operations in Iraq cost $4bn a month
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is spending nearly $4 billion a month in Iraq, a “burn rate” that is likely to continue far longer than the Bush administration intended due to ongoing attacks...
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