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Iraqis foil US attempt to stop convoy for Fallujah
BAGHDAD, April 8: Thousands of Sunnis and Shias forced their way through US military checkpoints to ferry food and medical supplies to the besieged Fallujah ... 
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Departure of soldiers suspended
WASHINGTON, April 8: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday that US troops are facing a "serious problem" in Iraq as they seek to quell uprisings across the country. ...
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Bodies not found in mosque, says marine
BAGHDAD, April 8: Despite earlier indicating that up to 40 guerillas were killed in Wednesday's air strike on a mosque in Fallujah, a marine officer has admitted that soldiers had failed to find any bodies inside. ...
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Arab rulers' worst fears on Iraq come true
DUBAI: As US forces battle on a new front in Iraq, Baghdad's Arab neighbours watch the escalating violence with alarm and a message that affords them only the grimmest satisfaction: "We told you so." ...
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26 policemen die in blasts in India
RANCHI, April 8: At least 26 policemen were killed on Wednesday night when landmines planted by suspected Maoists blew up four vehicles in their patrol in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. ...
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Panel member addresses Rice as 'Dr Clarke'
WASHINGTON, April 8: A Democratic member of the Sept 11 commission addressed national security adviser Condoleezza Rice several times on Thursday as "Dr Clarke", referring to Richard Clarke, the former anti-terror official she was seeking to refute. ...
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Bush and Blair have lit a fire
LONDON: Where are they now, the cheerleaders for war on Iraq? Where are the US Republican hawks who predicted the Anglo- American invasion would be a "cakewalk", greeted by cheering Iraqis? Or the liberal apologists ...
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Neo-cons take up the task of 'religion-building'
WASHINGTON: One thing that can be said about US neo- conservatives is they do not lack for ambition. "We need an Islamic reformation", Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz confided on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq last year ...
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Algerians go to the polls
ALGIERS, April 8: Algerians voted on Thursday in a presidential election seen as a landmark for democracy in a Muslim country seeking to erase traumas of civil war and militancy. ...
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Saudi police arrest former soccer player
RIYADH, April 8: The Saudi police have arrested a former leading national soccer player suspected of planning to join militant groups. The Asharq Al Awsat paper reported that soccer player Sulaiman Al Hudaithi who, just a few seasons ago ...
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N. America leads world in genocide, says Belgium
BRUSSELS, April 8: Belgian Defence Minister Andre Flahaut came under fire on Thursday for approving an official document asserting that the biggest genocide in the past 500 years occurred in North America. ...
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Rice angers Lockerbie victims' families
WASHINGTON, April 8: Eager to tout improved relations with Libya for abandoning its weapons programmes, the White House omitted the 1988 Lockerbie airliner bombing from the list of terrorist attacks cited on Thursday ...
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Tamil Tigers have reasons to smile if talks begin
BANGKOK: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels would find themselves in an enviable position if the country's stalled peace talks do resume in the coming weeks. ...
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Flip of Earth's magnetic field
PARIS: A reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, a rare but feared event due to the catastrophic effect it could have on human life, takes about 7,000 years to complete, according to a study published on Thursday. ...
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