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World Bank links Iraq aid with constitution
BAGHDAD, July 30: The World Bank will eventually offer Iraq assistance to help revive its economy, but wants a constitution drafted first, World Bank President James Wolfensohn said on Wednesday.... 
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Tribe protests US raid in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, July 30: Hundreds of protestors from an Iraqi tribe gathered on Wednesday at their chief’s house raided by US troops on Sunday in their search for Saddam Hussein, blasting the...
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Turkey passes EU reform curbing military’s power
ANKARA, July 30: Turkey passed a landmark legal reform on Wednesday to curb the political influence of its powerful military, a step Ankara says should win it membership talks with the...
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Pakistan, S. Arabia, China sponsoring terrorism: US think tank’s allegation
WASHINGTON, July 30: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China — although members of the US-led coalition against terror— are actually sponsoring terrorism, says a report published on Wednesday by a Washington-based think-tank,...
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China plans to attack Taiwan: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, July 30: China, boosting military spending and deploying growing numbers of ballistic missiles, is pursuing a strategy for a possible conflict in the Taiwan Strait aimed at bringing Taiwan to...
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Myers says Iraq action not to hit Afghanistan
BAGRAM, July 30: Washington’s top general said on Wednesday military operations in Iraq would not draw resources away from the fight against “international terrorism” in places like Afghanistan....
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No US intervention in Liberia until conditions met: Bush
WASHINGTON, July 30: Liberian President Charles Taylor must be gone and a ceasefire in place before US forces intervene in war-torn Liberia, US President George Bush said on Wednesday....
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Jafari to head Iraq council
BAGHDAD, July 30: Iraq’s interim Governing Council named on Wednesday Ibrahim Jafari of Shia Dawa party as the US-approved body’s first president, a Kurdish official announced....
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Palestinians accuse Bush of connivance
WASHINGTON, July 30: The United States will keep pressing Israel on a controversial fence that divides the West Bank, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday....
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US troops pick up general’s wife, daughter
WASHINGTON, July 30: A US colonel in Iraq kidnapped a wanted Iraqi general’s wife and daughter, leaving a note saying “if you want them back then turn yourself in,” a report...
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India’s poll chief wins Magsaysay award
 NEW DELHI, July 30: India’s chief election commissioner, who defied government pressure for an early election in riot-torn Gujarat state and oversaw fair polls in occupied Kashmir, has won Asia’s equivalent...
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Sharon’s fence runs into trouble with US
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ran into a wall when he tried to justify the creation of a security fence at a meeting with US President George Bush in...
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Egypt moves to re-collect stolen treasures
CAIRO: With calls for Britain to agree to a three-month loan of the celebrated Rosetta stone and demands for Germany to relinquish a priceless bust of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt has launched...
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Conciliatory moves bring hope to Zimbabweans
HARARE: Conciliatory moves on both sides in Zimbabwe’s polarized politics have raised hopes for a break in a long-standing impasse, analysts say....
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Bigger Nato role in Iraq faces hurdles
BRUSSELS: The United States wants to get Nato more involved in stabilizing post-war Iraq as the cost and toll on its own forces mounts, but any such move faces political hurdles...
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Infectious disease claims actor’s leg
PARIS: Voted France’s most promising young actor in 1996 at the age of 25, Guillaume Depardieu was set to follow in the footsteps of his father, Gerard Depardieu, the internationally- known...
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Finding common grounds for peace & justice in Kashmir
WASHINGTON: I suggest that all must agree on this question of terrorism. The mourning, the unpopularity, the reprisals and the misery achieved by terrorism have been made plain in a number...
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16 words, 28 pages: Democrats fix on figures
WASHINGTON: A barrage of criticism of the White House has turned into a numbers game, with Democrats taking issue over 16 misapplied words in a nationally-televised speech, 28 blanked-out pages from...
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