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Hillary criticizes Iraq plan
WASHINGTON: The day after she returned from Iraq, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday criticized President Bush’s plan to turn control of the country over to Iraqis by July as politically... 
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To get to the bottom of the barrel
LONDON: The world is running out of oil — so why do politicians refuse to talk about it? The oil industry is buzzing. On Nov 27, the government approved the development...
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Bloodshed puts US policy on the spot
WASHINGTON: Despite vows of no surrender in Iraq, the United States has been thrust into a painful military dilemma by a swelling insurgency, days after a top Shia leader ambushed its...
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Badawi cultivating populist image
KUALA LUMPUR: One month after taking over from Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is coming across as a caring populist promising to eradicate corruption, improve public service and narrow...
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Beijing pursues modern wonders
BEIJING: The last time Beijing stumped the world with mind-blowing architecture, a Ming dynasty emperor had ordered up the Forbidden City in the shadows of the Great Wall....
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Rumsfeld takes bad English prize
LONDON: A Tory party ex-chairman got close to victory by noting “Having committed political suicide, the Conservative party is now living to regret it.”...
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Mideast peace plans get global backing
WASHINGTON: If the success of the unofficial Israeli-Palestinian peace plan launched amid great fanfare in Geneva on Monday were dependent on international goodwill, it could be implemented tomorrow....
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Israel slams US on planned talks with Geneva authors
TEL AVIV, Dec 2: Israel issued a rare rebuke to the United States on Tuesday, saying Secretary of State Colin Powell would be making a mistake if he met the architects...
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US fears attacks in S. Arabia, Kenya : 14 arrested in UK
LONDON/RIYADH, Dec 2: British police arrested 14 people on Tuesday as the United States warned of possible attacks in Saudi Arabia and Kenya, in actions which highlighted a persistent global threat...
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Annan in ‘solidarity’ with Palestinians
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday delivered a message of support to the Palestinians, saying he felt the “deepest solidarity” with their “continued suffering”....
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Colombo to probe Muslims’ killing
COLOMBO, Dec 2: President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga on Tuesday ordered a full investigations into the harassment and murder of three Muslims in the east over the weekend, purportedly by the LTTE....
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Jackson charges reverberate in UN
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2: The child molestation charges against pop star Michael Jackson reverberated in the corridors of the United Nations on Monday as his brother Jermaine Jackson addressed a press...
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Bush signs bill for nuke research
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: US President George Bush has put his stamp of approval on a bill allocating millions of dollars for research into new types of nuclear weapons and for bolstering...
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Court seeks details on ‘Israel’s Guantanamo’
TEL AVIV, Dec 2: The Israeli supreme court on Monday demanded the government explain why it refuses to divulge the location of a secret prison the local press has dubbed “Israel’s...
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UN security official found dead
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 2: A United Nations security guard was found dead on Monday, with a gunshot wound to the head, in an empty lounge at the world body’s headquarters here,...
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600 die of AIDS in S. Arabia
RIYADH, Dec 2: Some 600 Saudis have reportedly died of the AIDS disease in the country, a top Saudi official was quoted here as saying. The country has 6,787 cases of...
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Iraqis do not trust US-led troops : survey
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: The vast majority of Iraqis are deeply mistrustful of the US-led coalition that is occupying their country, even if they’re happy Saddam Hussein is history, says a major...
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US troops nab Izzat’s private secretary
 KIRKUK, Dec 2: US troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein’s number two, Izzat Ibrahim al Duri, during a massive sweep in the Iraqi town of Hawijah on Tuesday, a...
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Louvre to lend collection to small museums
PARIS, Dec 2: The Mona Lisa, which has left the walls of the Louvre only twice in recent history, to make its way to Washington and to Tokyo, may very well...
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Russia hints at pulling out of Kyoto treaty
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS, Dec 2: Russia dealt a new blow to a U.N. plan to curb global warming on Tuesday as even European Union supporters of the landmark pact admitted backsliding....
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