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Blair under pressure to bring suspects home: Guantanamo trials
LONDON, July 11: British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced growing demands on Friday to press US President George W. Bush to send British terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay back home for... 
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Key leaders absent from Africa summit
MAPUTO, July 11: African leaders met on Friday to examine some of the continent’s chronic conflicts, but the absence of key presidents cast a shadow over their efforts....
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Iraqi arms posed no threat: expert
LONDON, July 11: Iraqi chemical weapons posed no significant risk to the world in the run-up to the US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, the former head of an international arms...
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Sunken Bangladesh ferry yet to be found
DHAKA, July 11: As only two more dead bodies were recovered from the accident site on Friday the third day after a ferry carrying hundreds of sank in the river here...
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Stowaway hitches ride in Bush press plane
ENTEBBE, July 11: A stowaway flew from South Africa to Uganda on the press plane accompanying US President George W. Bush on his visit to Africa and entered the compound where...
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Powell hints at poor response to US plea: Foreign troops
WASHINGTON, July 11: US Secretary of States Colin Powell admitted on Thursday there was no certainty how many foreign troops were going to Iraq to help US and British forces, in...
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Dahlan’s guards clash with Hamas
GAZA CITY, July 11: Bodyguards for Palestinian minister of state for security affairs Mohammed Dahlan’s shot and wounded a militant from the Hamas on Thursday night, witnesses said....
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Shia leader returns to Iraq after 30 years
BAGHDAD, July 11: A Shia leader, Ayatollah Mehdi Modaressi, arrived in Baghdad on Friday after a 30-year exile and called for a representative Iraqi government to consolidate on the fall of...
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Italy suffered in row with Germany: FM
ROME, July 11: The Italian goverment has suffered from a German backlash in the two countries’ recent diplomatic row but wants to turn the page quickly, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told...
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Truman accused Jews of being selfish: diary
WASHINGTON, July 11: US President Harry Truman made an extraordinary attack on Jews in his personal diary just two years after the end of World War II, accusing them of being...
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Lankan govt hopeful of fresh talks
COLOMBO, July 11: Amidst much controversy from opposition political parties the United National Front government on Thursday said that it had complete faith that its proposals for an interim council to...
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Delhi under pressure to abandon plans: Troops for Iraq
NEW DELHI: Faced with mounting public pressure, India’s right-wing government may have to abandon plans to accede to a US government demand for it to send troops to post-war Iraq....
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Rich states capable of defeating poverty
LOS ANGELES: The great paradox of our time is that the massive suffering of the world’s poor — from disease, hunger, unsafe water and more — could be readily overcome with...
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Ban fails to dampen Iranian protesters’ enthusiasm
TEHRAN: Reformist MPs had warned that banning Iranian students from exercising their legitimate demands on holding their annual demonstrations on July 9 would just lead to violence....
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US Muslims feel targeted by post-9/11 business policies
WASHINGTON: Dokhi Fassihian is passionate about Iran, and her resume reflects it. The policy analyst has written articles on Iran, helped with a book about the country and even worked there....
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US forces unable to tell friend from foe
KHAN DARI (Iraq): Iraqi children skip joyously toward the US military convoy. They smile and wave and yell “thank you” with thumbs up....
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Oldest planet has boisterous past
WASHINGTON: The oldest planet ever detected is nearly 13 billion years old and more than twice the size of Jupiter, locked in orbit around a whirling pulsar and a white dwarf,...
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Democrat rallies party for 2004 battle
WASHINGTON: The Democratic Party, long cowered by the popular appeal of Republican wartime US President George W. Bush, has found a new, angry voice....
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