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US hands over ministry as violence in Iraq continues
MOSUL: March 28: A British national was killed in fresh violence on Sunday, as US overseer Paul Bremer handed over the keys of the first ministry to Iraqi officials as part of a gradual handover of power by June 30. ... 
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US backs Karzai's decision to delay elections
WASHINGTON, March 28: The United States has supported the Afghan government's decision to delay the country's first democratic elections. "We support President Hamid Karzai's decision whenever he holds the elections," ...
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Terror backlash hits Bush's votes
NEW YORK: Republicans fear the devastating revelations about their failure to see Al Qaeda as an imminent threat before the Sept 11 terrorist attacks have seriously dented President George Bush's election campaign. ...
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Europe reassesses how to fight terrorism
LONDON: While President Bush was giving an address earlier this month describing the war on terrorism as "not a figure of speech" but "an inescapable calling of our generation," ...
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Planning human life on Mars
LONDON: Finding life on Mars has proved an elusive dream for decades. But now scientists believe they may be able to do it for themselves - by turning the Red Planet into a blue world with streams ...
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Brando's eco-paradise?
PARIS: The giant clams in the crystal-clear waters of Tetiaroa Lagoon in the South Pacific have rarely been so happy. But their happiness has come at a price. ...
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Israel encouraged as Arab leaders call off summit
TUNIS, March 28: Wrong-footed Arab governments scrambled on Sunday to rescue a summit that had been touted as a chance for them to embark on democratic change until host Tunisia announced it was calling it off at the 11th hour. ...
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Zionists can't kill resistance: Rantissi
GAZA CITY, March 28: "Even if the Zionists kill all of us (the leadership), they cannot kill the resistance and Hamas," said Abdelaziz Rantissi, the new leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, addressing a rally here on Sunday. ...
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South Korean minister in China for nuke talks
BEIJING, March 28: South Korea's foreign minister will seek to find out more about North Korea's stand on six-party nuclear talks in discussions with his Chinese counterpart during a three-day visit that began on Sunday. ...
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Russia wary as Nato expands to its borders
MOSCOW: Nato's upcoming enlargement is a bitter pill to swallow for Russia, a former superpower which once headed the Warsaw Pact alliance that opposed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. ...
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Sharon has opened the gates of hell
OXFORD: Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, marked an extraordinarily dangerous escalation in the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. ...
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Europe's pollution capital
TIRANA: When Albania's communist dictatorship collapsed in the late 1980s there were only 2,000 cars in the country, and horses and carts were a more common form of transport in the capital, Tirana. ...
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