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Saddam's capture can't help Bush
WASHINGTON: The US media are describing the capture of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as a Christmas gift for President George W. Bush. And Col. Moammar Qadhafi's decision to open Libya's arsenals for UN inspection, they say, is an additional decoration. ... 
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Fears of attacks mar New Year festivities
LONDON, Dec 31: Fears of terrorist attack cast a shadow over New Year celebrations around the globe on Wednesday, with warplanes patrolling American skies and armed undercover sky marshals guarding some flights. ...
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Afghanistan still far away from peace
JALALABAD: Amid shattered hopes, dilapidated roads and destroyed homes that still have no sanitation services, everything seems to be out of order in the life of many Afghanis. ...
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Cardinal condemns Muslim countries
PARIS, Dec 31: Too many Muslim countries treat their Christian minorities as second-class citizens and bar them from building churches while Western states let their Muslims build mosques freely, a senior Vatican official alleged on Wednesday. ...
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Kashmiri trout looks back to Europe
DACHIGAM: Brought from Scotland to the Himalayas a century ago, the Kashmiri trout has weathered wars and rebellions. And now the industry believes it can export the fish back to Europe. ...
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Israel seeks submarines for 'strategic depth'
TEL AVIV: For years they cruised the shores of Tripoli, silent and unseen in the deep, radars monitoring inland munitions plants and torpedo tubes armed for combat. ...
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Jewish settlements to be expanded: Golan is Israel's integral part: Tel Aviv
TEL AVIV, Dec 31: Israel disclosed plans on Wednesday to expand Jewish settlement in the Golan Heights captured from Syria in the 1967 war, infuriating Damascus not long after President Bashar al Assad proposed reopening peace talks. ...
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Britain feared US invasion of S. Arabia in '73: documents
LONDON, Dec 31: British spy chiefs secretly warned that the United States would be prepared to invade Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to seize their oilfields following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, it was disclosed on Thursday. ...
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US military more Republican, conservative than public: poll
WASHINGTON: About two-thirds of the active-duty US military approve of President George W. Bush's overall performance, while the same percentage of officers consider themselves Republicans ...
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Naming of CIA agent: counsel appointed
WASHINGTON, Dec 31: The United States on Wednesday appointed a special counsel to investigate allegations that the White House purposely leaked the identity of a CIA agent to silence her husband. ...
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French pilots oppose guards on planes
PARIS, Dec 31: French pilots say they're dead set against allowing armed guards on board flights by French airlines to the United States. ...
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Aga Khan Academy inaugurated
MOMBASA, Dec 31: The Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa, the first in an international network of about 20 academic centres of excellence, was inaugurated on Tuesday by Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki in the presence of the Aga Khan. ...
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US medics get warm welcome in Iran
BAM, Dec 31: The Stars and Stripes received a rare welcome in Iran on Wednesday as US medics joined efforts to help survivors of last week's earthquake. ...
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Baby, young girl pulled alive
TEHRAN, Dec 31: Rescue workers in and around the shattered Iranian city of Bam pulled out five people - including a four-month-old baby and a 12-year-old girl - alive from the wreckage of last week's earthquake. ...
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