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Palestinians confident of victory at ICJ
THE HAGUE, Feb 22: Palestinians on Sunday expressed confidence of victory in this week's world court hearing into Israel's West Bank barrier, insisting the latest suicide attack in Al Quds will not undermine their cause. ... 
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US intentions questioned: Push for democracy in ME
WASHINGTON: Arab and European officials are increasingly concerned that the Bush administration's push to promote democracy in the Middle East will have little traction in the region ...
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Copter crashes in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Feb 22: A helicopter belonging to an American road construction company crashed in southern Afghanistan on Sunday but the number of casualties is unknown, an official said. ...
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LTTE not to renegotiate truce
COLOMBO, Feb 22: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers are not prepared to renegotiate their ceasefire agreement with the government, local press reports quoted the rebels as saying, on Sunday. ...
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Nader to run for president
WASHINGTON, Feb 22: Ralph Nader, whose third-party White House bid in 2000 was blamed by some Democrats for helping elect Republican George W Bush, said on Sunday he will run again this year as an independent. ...
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BD Speaker rules against AL demonstration
DHAKA, Feb 22: Speaker Jamiruddin Siracar on Sunday issued a ruling against a planed demonstration by MPs belonging to Awami League inside the parliament lobby. ...
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Rebels take control of Cap-Haitien
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 22: Armed rebels on Sunday took control of Haiti's second-largest city, Cap-Haitien, after first seizing the local airport, witnesses said. ...
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Japan wants bigger role in UN affairs
TOKYO, Feb 22: Japan, the second largest financial contributor to the United Nations, on Sunday demanded reforms that would give it a bigger say in the world body. ...
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Uganda rebels massacre 200 refugees
KAMPALA, Feb 22: Ugandan rebels shot and burnt to death 192 people in a camp for displaced civilians in their bloodiest attack in years, a local official said on Sunday. ...
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Speedy reforms in S. Arabia urged
RIYADH, Feb 22: Only a few days after the London-based Saudi dissident, Saad Al-Faqeeh, expressed his disappointment with the pace of reforms in the Kingdom, 800 Saudi academics and professionals ...
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Chalabi, Garner provide new clues to war
WASHINGTON: For those still puzzling over the whys and wherefores of Washington's invasion of Iraq 11 months ago, major new, but curiously unnoticed, clues were offered this week by two central players in the events leading up to the war. ...
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Gandhi vs Gandhi in Indian elections
NEW DELHI: It is being billed as the war of the Gandhis, as India moves into electoral mode. Varun Gandhi, son of family black sheep Maneka Gandhi and one of the heirs to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has supplied India with three Congress party prime ministers ...
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