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Washington schools get bomb threat
WASHINGTON, March 19: Police searched all schools in Washington, D.C., on Friday after receiving a threat via the Internet that bombs had been placed in five schools. ... 
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Iraqi newsmen boycott Powell's briefing
BAGHDAD, March 19: Iraqi journalists gave US Secretary of State Colin Powell a hostile reception in Baghdad on Friday, walking out of his news conference in protest at the killing of two of their colleagues by US troops. ...
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Sunnis, Shias hold joint demo against US
BAGHDAD, March 19: Up to three thousand Iraqi Sunni and Shias staged a joint protest here on Friday calling for an end to "American occupation" of their country, on the eve of the first anniversary of the invasion. ...
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Abdullah, Sharon in impromptu summit
AL QUDS, March 19: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held an unannounced meeting with the Jordanian king amid his efforts to promote a plan for a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, where tensions were still running high on Friday. ...
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US paper apologizes to Galloway
LONDON, March 19: A British politician accepted libel damages from an American newspaper on Friday over a story that alleged he took 10 million dollars to support former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ...
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US-European ties in crisis: study
WASHINGTON, March 19: US-European relations have hit a crisis point over Iraq, according to a report released on Friday by 26 European and US personalities. ...
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Research points to mass extinctions
LONDON: Scientists have produced the first comprehensive evidence that the diversity of butterflies, birds and plants is in decline in the UK. They say their research supports the argument that mass extinction threatens life on Earth. ...
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US struggling to improve its image in Germany
By Chad Thomas BERLIN: A year after the start of the Iraq war, the United States government appears to have its work cut out as it sharpens efforts to improve its dismal image among Germans. ...
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South Korea refuses to deploy troops in Kirkuk
SEOUL, March 19: South Korea on Friday cancelled plans to deploy thousands of troops to Kirkuk in northern Iraq after Washington said it wanted to base troops and launch combat missions there. ...
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US asks Syria to withdraw from Lebanon
BEIRUT, March 19: Syria should withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a US State Department spokesman said in a published interview on Friday, arguing that the arguments for having them there in the first place no longer held. ...
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Paris, Berlin send reinforcements: Kosovo witnessing ethnic cleansing - Nato
PRISTINA, March 19: Nato troops raided apartment blocks in a flashpoint Kosovo town on Friday after two days of serious violence the alliance describes as "ethnic cleansing", accusing Albanian hardliners of trying to drive out Serbs. ...
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Zawahiri: the 'brain' behind Osama
ISLAMABAD: Top Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri may these days be reviewing a life in which his devotion to religious war has cost him his family, his wealth and perhaps now his future. ...
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