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Display of equipment in US angers Libya
WASHINGTON, March 16: Washington offended Tripoli with its "dog-and-pony show" display of Libya's dismantled nuclear weapons, a UN official said on Tuesday. ... 
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Guantanamo men may have been shackled: Powell
WASHINGTON, March 16: Some Guantanamo Bay prisoners may have been shackled and chained en route to the US prison facility in Cuba, says Secretary of State Colin Powell. ...
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Sikh leader opposes US arms sales to India
WASHINGTON, March 16: The United States should stop selling weapons to India, president of the Council of Khalistan, Dr. Gurmit Singh Aulakh, said on Monday. "India represses its minorities, spends its money on useless weapons while the people live in abject poverty ...
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Muslim group threatening to launch attacks: Letter sent to PM: France
PARIS, March 16: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin received a letter on Tuesday from an unknown Muslim group that threatened to attack France and French interests abroad, triggering an official probe ...
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Need for honest reckoning
LONDON: The names of Abdel Jabr Mousa or Baha Mousa have probably not lodged in your memory. Nor Hazim Jum'aa Gatteh Al- Skeini or Hanan Shmailawi. They are among the 23 Iraqi civilians alleged to have been killed by British troops since the end of hostilities. ...
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Israeli raid on Gaza leaves two dead
GAZA, March 16: Israel killed two Palestinians in an air strike into Gaza City on Tuesday, launching what it said would be relentless military action against militants after a suicide bombing at a strategic port, witnesses and medics said. ...
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Seven die as Syrian troops, Kurds clash
CEYLANPINAR, March 16: Syrian forces opened fire on Kurdish protesters in northern Syria close to the border with Turkey on Tuesday, killing seven people in fresh Arab-Kurdish violence, Anatolian news agency said. ...
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Iran agrees to inspection of N-plants
TOKYO, March 16: Iran's top nuclear policy-maker Hassan Rowhani, now on a three-day visit to Japan, said on Tuesday Tehran is to accept an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection unconditionally. ...
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Spanish media accuse govt of pressuring them on ETA
MADRID, March 16: Another Spanish news outlet said on Tuesday it had been pressured by the outgoing government in a growing furore over accusations of media censorship and bias in coverage of last week's Madrid bombings. ...
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Seven held in S. Arabia
RIYADH, March 16: At least seven liberals were detained in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. They included signatories to a petition to Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Abdullah calling for a timetable for political reforms to be implemented in Saudi Arabia. ...
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Missing elements in Iraq's constitution
LOS ANGELES: The soap opera of getting the Iraqi transitional constitution signed made for great theatre and ended, fortunately, with all 25 members of Iraq's Governing Council signing the document into law. ...
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Politicians beseech Indian film stars
NEW DELHI: As campaigning picks up for the April/May elections, political parties are busy competing to get popular stars from India's hugely popular film industry, known as Bollywood, to root for them. ...
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Anti-war sentiment caused Aznar party's rout
Spain's general election, which saw the defeat of the right- wing Popular Party (PP) of outgoing prime minister Josi Marma Aznar, turned into a referendum on the Aznar government's support for Washington's war against Iraq. ...
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German-US ME push improves relations
BERLIN: What a difference a year makes. At the 2003 Munich Security Conference - the top annual venue for global defence issues - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld famously clashed over the Iraq war. ...
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