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Saddam in good health, says Sanchez
BAGHDAD, Feb 26: The top US commander in Iraq gave Saddam Hussein a clean bill of health Thursday, two months after he was captured by US troops in a hole in the ground on a small farm. ... 
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Iraq to reopen nuclear site
BAGHDAD, Feb 26: Iraqi authorities will reopen an old nuclear site near Baghdad at the end of March for "peaceful scientific" research purposes, Science and Technology Minister Rashad Mandan Omar said on Thursday. ...
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Sistani seeks UN resolution on polls
NAJAF, Feb 26: Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the leading Shia religioius figure in Iraq, said in a statement released on Thursday that the United Nations Security Council pass a resolution setting a date for general election by the end of the year. ...
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N. Korea says it is ready to halt N-arms plan
BEIJING, Feb 26: North Korea gave signs on Thursday it was willing to halt its nuclear weapons programmes but blamed the United States for lack of progress in six-party talks in China. ...
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US terms BD's HR record poor
DHAKA, Feb 26: The United States has termed the Bangladesh government's human rights record of last year as "poor", accusing it of continuing to commit serious abuses. ...
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Mubarak leads opposition to Bush initiative
CAIRO, Feb 26: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has taken the reins of a revolt against US President George Bush's "Greater Middle-East Initiative" for democratic and economic reform in the region, only weeks before the two men are due to meet in Washington. ...
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Washington guilty of 'sincerity gap'
WASHINGTON: Releasing its annual 'Country Reports' on human rights practices around the world on Wednesday, the US State Department claimed Afghanistan and Iraq as two major breakthroughs in an otherwise bleak human rights picture. ...
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13 million children go hungry across US: experts
WASHINGTON: It's difficult to pin down the exact numbers, but most nutrition experts agree that on any one day, about 13 million children go hungry across the United States. ...
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Watchdogs want Bush, Congress to join probe: Halliburton contract
WASHINGTON: US President George W. Bush and Congress should join Pentagon and State Department probes into allegations that construction giant Halliburton overcharged the US government ...
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Two Russians killed Chechen leader: Qatar
DOHA, Feb 26: Qatar has charged two Russians suspected of involvement in the assassination of former Chechen President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and released a third Russian with a diplomatic passport ...
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Khatami asked to explain position
TEHRAN, Feb 26: Dozens of angry Iranian reformist parliamentarians have demanded that President Mohammad Khatami appear before them to explain why he let last week's elections go ahead even though 2,500 of his supporters were barred from standing. ...
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Iran poll may open way for US approach
TEHRAN: It may sound paradoxical but the victory of conservatives in Iran's widely decried parliamentary election might just open the way for a rapprochement between the Islamic Republic and the United States after 25 years of enmity. ...
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275 rescued from ferry carrying 900 people
MANILA, Feb 26: Rescuers plucked 275 people from a passenger ferry ablaze off the coast of the Philippines' capital Manila early on Friday (Thursday night in Pakistan), but over 600 more were still trapped on board. ...
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'Fastest stopwatch' developed
VIENNA, Feb 26: Austro-Hungarian physicist Ferenc Krauzs on Thursday here said scientists had developed a device that can measure the speed of atomic processes down to the smallest fraction of a second yet. ...
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