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Americans are looking for ghosts: Turabi
KHARTOUM, March 18: Sudanese leader Hassan al Turabi, who knew Osama bin Laden and once organized an international alliance of radical Muslims, said in an interview on Thursday ... 
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China says US was wrong on Iraq
BEIJING, March 18: China said on Thursday the situation in Iraq a year after the United States launched its invasion had proved Washington was wrong to try to use force to solve its disputes. ...
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Kerry terms Bush stand stubborn
WASHINGTON, March 18: Democrat John Kerry, marking the first anniversary of the Iraq invasion, accused US President George Bush on Wednesday of stubbornly pursuing a failed policy that has weakened the military and driven away allies. ...
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US studying plan to get HEU out of civilian use: IAEA chief meets Bush
WASHINGTON, March 18: The United States is working on an "action plan" to get countries worldwide to stop using highly enriched uranium ...
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Welcome to the Titanic
LONDON: So when London is bombed by Al Qaeda will you blame Tony Blair? If we're to stay free, in a dangerous world, we need to think straighter than that. ...
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UK govt loses appeal to keep Libyan in jail
LONDON, March 18: Britain's Appeal Court ordered the government to free a Libyan terror suspect on Thursday, upholding the first defeat of emergency, post-September 11 powers to hold foreigners without charge. ...
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Asteroid flyby closest on record
WASHINGTON: March 18: A 30-metre asteroid was expected to pass just 43,000 kilometres above the earth's surface on Thursday (Friday morning in Pakistan) ...
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LTTE chief rejects amnesty for renegade
BATTICALOA, March 18: Death looms for Karuna alias Mulareetharan, the renegade member of the LTTE who holds command over the eastern region. ...
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Mahathir blames Bush policies for Madrid bombings
PUTRAJAYA, March 18: The deadly bombings in Madrid proved that US President George Bush had made the world a more dangerous place, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday. ...
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Poland deceived over Iraq's WMDs: president
WARSAW, March 18: In a first sign of official criticism in Poland of the US-led invasion of Iraq, President Aleksander Kwasniewski said on Thursday that his country had been "taken for a ride" about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction. ...
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India shining, but only for some
NEW DELHI: There are few takers for the "Shining India" election campaign of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and even some its close allies seem to have problems with what they consider a slick, empty theme. ...
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War crimes trial opens in Serbia
BELGRADE: Six men accused of the massacre of 192 Croatian prisoners of war back in 1991 went on trial in Belgrade last week. This is the first war crimes trial in Serbia for atrocities committed in the war of disintegration of former Yugoslavia. ...
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