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Karzai seeks strong presidential powers: Loya Jirga begins
KABUL, Dec 14: Afghans launched a crucial meeting on Sunday to approve a constitution to take the country to its first free elections and President Hamid Kazai defended his bid for... 
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Capture offers chance for peace: Annan: Mixed reaction in Arab world
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, on Sunday said that the United Nations was ready “to do everything possible to help the Iraqi people if asked and as...
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14 still left after ace of spades caught
BAGHDAD, Dec 14: The capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, the ace of spades on the US military’s “deck of cards” illustrating wanted members of his regime, leaves 14 people...
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France, Germany warned over ‘two-speed Europe’
BRUSSELS, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The European Union’s ambitious drive for a constitution to strengthen integration lay in ruins on Sunday just five months before the bloc is set to expand...
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Israel backs ‘road map’ after US warning
AL QUDS, Dec 14: Israeli officials pledged their allegiance to the troubled “roadmap” peace plan on Sunday after being warned by US President George W. Bush against implementing unilateral measures....
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Japanese denounce Iraq troop dispatch
TOKYO, Dec 14: Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Tokyo on Sunday, denouncing a government decision to send troops to Iraq as a violation of Japan’s pacifist constitution....
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How Bush was informed of arrest
WASHINGTON, Dec 14: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld called President Bush on Saturday afternoon and informed him that Saddam Hussein has been captured, the White House said on Sunday....
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Cyclone in Bay of Bengal
MADRAS, Dec 14: A cyclonic storm building up in the Bay of Bengal is threatening to hit India’s southern region between the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, weather...
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Saddam called his wife once a week: report
LONDON, Dec 14: Saddam Hussein made a phone call or posted a letter at least once a week to his second wife and his only surviving son in Beirut, Britain’s Sunday...
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Sri Lanka heads for snap polls
COLOMBO, Dec 14: Sri Lanka’s squabbling president and prime minister have told their supporters to prepare for a snap election as talks due Monday to end their dispute were unlikely to...
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Major combat not over for Bush
WASHINGTON: George Bush must have thought it would be plain sailing to win another four-year term in 2004 when he jetted triumphantly onto the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare major combat...
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Shocking new details about UK’s ‘Camp Delta’
LONDON: Shocking new details have emerged about the treatment of 14 foreign terrorist suspects held without trial in two British high security jails....
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Why I fear that the EU dream is doomed
LONDON: As a pro-European I have never had any illusions: building Europe is partly about nobility of purpose and partly about naked power politics — the two have always sat in...
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Uncovering mysteries of Mars
LONDON: It has been a source of mystery — and fear — to human beings throughout history. The Romans believed it was the bringer of war, the Babylonians called it the...
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Threats to mediamen come in many ways
KANCHANABURI (Thailand): India is often called the world’s biggest democracy, but journalists there are increasingly becoming targets for reprisals and police coercion, as well as legal action from state governments....
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British shells pose cancer risk
LONDON: Depleted uranium shells used by British forces in southern Iraqi battlefields are putting civilians at risk from “alarmingly high” levels of radioactivity....
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Saddam’s capture may not end unrest
LONDON: Saddam Hussein’s capture will delight most Iraqis and devastate the deposed dictator’s loyalists, but even this stunning victory for US forces may not quell the violence they face in Iraq....
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Contracts expose America’s true aims
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration’s decision to exclude countries that opposed the war on Iraq from multi-billion-dollar reconstruction deals contradicts its position both on free trade and its self-described mission in Iraq,...
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