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Pakistan cooperating with US: officials - Nuclear black market
WASHINGTON, March 13: Information obtained from accused Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan suggests North Korea began to pursue a highly enriched uranium programme for nuclear weapons several years earlier than originally thought ... 
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Muslim group carried out bomb attacks: Spanish officials' view
MADRID, March 13: Spain's intelligence service is "99 percent certain" that radical Muslims and not the Basque separatist group ETA are responsible for train bombings that killed 200 people, a Spanish radio station said on Saturday. ...
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Identity of killers to influence polls
ALCALA DE HENARES, March 13: Spain was burying its dead from the Madrid train bombings on Saturday, as the death toll reached 200 and cast a dark shadow over Sunday's general election. ...
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US beefs up security at railways
NEW YORK, March 13: the aftermath of the Madrid railways bombings, law enforcement officials in New York said on Friday that they were moving to secure passengers trains ...
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Two US soldiers killed in Tikrit
BAGHDAD, March 13: A roadside bomb killed two US soldiers newly arrived in Iraq and seriously wounded several others as they were patrolling Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit on Saturday. ...
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Brother-in-law of council member killed
BAGHDAD, March 13: The brother-in-law of a member of Iraq's interim Governing Council was killed in a bomb attack in Baghdad's Karrada shopping district on Saturday afternoon, a political party official said. ...
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S. Arabia to hold elections in October
RIYADH, March 13: Saudi Arabia's first elections ever will take place in October and should lead to general election, a newspaper said on Saturday, quoting senior members of the Majlis ash Shura (consultative council_. ...
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US to back anti-China resolution
WASHINGTON, March 13: Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke with his Chinese counterpart on Friday to highlight US disappointment with China's human rights practices amid strong hints that Washington would sponsor a resolution condemning Beijing's "record" at an upcoming UN meeting. ...
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LTTE rebel not hopeful of independence
COLOMBO, March 13: Renegade Tamil Tiger leader Karuna has said the LTTE would never be able to create a separate state in Sri Lanka's north and east, according to an interview given to an Indian newspaper. ...
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US election skews Iraq agenda
LONDON: As the presidential campaign sharpened in America it was to be expected that the Bush administration's Middle East policies, already misguided in critical ways, would be further distorted. ...
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Regime change in Haiti seen as policy blunder
WASHINGTON: Last week's US-backed "regime change" in Haiti could yet backfire against the administration of President George W Bush, according to independent analysts and Democrats who are describing the US role as another major foreign-policy blunder - or worse. ...
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US helping N. African states fight militants
WASHINGTON: Quietly and with little fanfare, the US military has been helping to push back a newly emerging terrorist threat in North Africa and the Sahel on the southern fringe of the Sahara. ...
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Washington not different from Asian govts in right abuses
BANGKOK: South-east Asian regimes known for their human rights violations are receiving a reminder here of how close the US government is to marching in their step ...
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What is the next target?
LONDON/MADRID: The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre at Thames House, British counter intelligence's (MI5) London headquarters, met in emergency session as soon as they learned of the scale of the Madrid bombings. ...
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