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US, Iran in secret peace talks
LONDON-TEHRAN: One go-between has been King Abdullah II of Jordan, who visited Tehran shortly before meeting President Bush at Camp David last month. King Abdullah is understood to have been briefed... 
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Trenches dug for EU constitution battle
ROME: When EU leaders took delivery of Europe’s first draft constitution at a summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, last June, it was with almost universal acclamation....
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China nurtures warmer ties with southeast Asia
BALI: China’s increasingly cozy ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will grow even warmer this week, when Beijing accedes to the diplomatic grouping’s code of conduct that rules...
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War crimes haunt Croatia
ZAGREB: The upcoming visit of Carla del Ponte, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), to Croatia is widely regarded in Zagreb as a turning point...
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Chirac is not bowed by spat with US
PARIS: Anyone who believes President Jacques Chirac has given up his campaign against what he fears will become American domination of the planet should think again....
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Concerns grow over US anti-Muslim policies
WASHINGTON: A blue-ribbon panel on US public diplomacy is calling on President George W. Bush not only to sharply increase funding to more effectively explain US policy to an increasingly hostile...
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Ex-soldiers clash again with UK, US troops
 BASRA, Oct 5: British and US troops clashed on Sunday with hundreds of former soldiers of Saddam Hussein’s army in a second day of violent confrontations which have left at least...
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30 foreigners, Israelis vow to protect Arafat
RAMALLAH, Oct 5: About 30 foreigners and Israelis camped out at the headquarters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Sunday, forming a “human shield” meant to prevent any attempt by Israel...
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Raid on Syria condemned
CAIRO, Oct 5: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak condemned on Sunday an Israeli raid purportedly aimed at a Palestinian militant training camp in Syria cannot be accepted,”...
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Iran says ‘not bound’ by IAEA deadline: Quick reply promised
TEHRAN, Oct 5: Iran intends to answer International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) questions over its nuclear programme “as quickly as possible”, even though it does not consider itself bound by an...
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Chechens vote for new president
GROZNY, Oct 5: The people of war-shattered Chechnya voted on Sunday for a new president in a widely discredited poll that few believed was likely to bring peace to Russia’s troubled...
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Australian sheep going back today
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 5: A so-called “ship of death” with more than 50,000 stranded Australian sheep on board will leave Kuwait, where it has been docked since Thursday, either late on...
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CPA leaders unable to sway Hasina
DHAKA, Oct 5: The last effort by CPA top brass to bring the opposition Awami League (AL) in the 49th annual plenary of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has failed as...
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Thousands flee from Yellow River floods
BEIJING, Oct 5: Heavy rain has forced thousands more people to evacuate their homes in flood-hit areas along China’s Yellow River, officials and state media said on Sunday....
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Omanis ignore new women candidates
MUSCAT, Oct 5: Omani women hoping for a bigger role in politics were left disappointed on Sunday as voters elected yet another male-dominated advisory Shura Council in the Gulf state’s first...
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Gujarat Hindus say want outside probe
BOMBAY, Oct 5: Relatives of Hindu victims who died in last year’s Gujarat train massacre demanded on Sunday the investigation into the carnage be held outside the state due to interference...
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