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Republicans accused of accessing computer files
WASHINGTON, March 5: US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch on Thursday blamed two former Republican staffers for what a top Democrat called "partisan spying" involving thousands of computer files. ... 
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CIA chief urged to clarify position
WASHINGTON, March 5: Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy called on Friday on CIA Director George Tenet to state plainly whether he believed the White House altered or misused intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. ...
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Russia had role in Iraq's missile project: NYT
WASHINGTON, March 5: Russian engineers secretly helped Iraq's long-range missile programme in the years leading up to last year's invasion, in violation of a UN ban, The New York Times alleged on Friday quoting US officials. ...
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US intelligence on labs was not verified: WP
WASHINGTON, March 5: The US claims that Iraq had mobile biological weapons laboratories were based on second-hand information provided by an Iraqi defector who was never interviewed by US intelligence, The Washington Post said on Friday. ...
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Critics hammer Bush for using 9\11 attacks in ads
WASHINGTON: Democratic officials, a fire fighters union and some relatives of Sept 11 victims assailed President Bush on Thursday for using video images from the site of the collapsed World Trade Centre towers ...
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The Commonwealth mask slips a little
LONDON: The mask over the origins of the Commonwealth is off, or at least it will be next week. About time, perhaps. It is polite to speak at Commonwealth gatherings now of diverse nations sharing a common purpose ...
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Blix terms invasion illegal
LONDON, March 5: Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes the invasion of Iraq was illegal, a British newspaper said on Friday....
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Sunnis and Shias must cooperate
LONDON: It is typical of how Middle Eastern politics is rooted in past history that the date which sprang to many Shia minds after the bombs in Kerbala this week was May 1801 ...
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Plan must include Palestinian issue: Paris: Middle East reform
PARIS, March 5: France gave conditional backing on Friday to United States plans to boost political and economic reform in the Middle East, saying any such drive had to include efforts to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ...
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Aristide accuses France of collusion
PARIS, March 5: Ousted Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide accused France on Thursday of colluding with the United States to remove him from office, saying the former colonial power had taken part in a "political kidnapping". ...
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Lankan govt rejects LTTE rebel's plea
COLOMBO, March 5: Crisis within the LTTE has deepened after a letter was written by a dissident Tamil Tiger leader, Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna, directly to Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabakaran. ...
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US shielding PM: Malaysian party
KUALA TERENGGANU, March 5: Malaysia's opposition leader on Friday accused the United States of protecting Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi over a nuclear black market scandal to prevent religious hardliners from taking power in upcoming elections. ...
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