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Moore still looking for distributor in US
NEW YORK, May 23: Michael Moore, who won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize on Saturday with a documentary caustically critical of US President George Bush and the Iraq war, is still searching for a US distributor ... 
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The task for Iraq's new prime minister
In eight days or so, Paul Bremer, the US proconsul in Iraq, will stand up in the vast conference centre in Baghdad with Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN special representative in Iraq. ...
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Rafah action reminds Israeli minister of Nazi atrocities
AL QUDS, May 23: A senior cabinet member touched a sensitive nerve in Israel on Sunday by appearing to compare its destruction of Palestinian homes in Rafah refugee camp to Nazi atrocities against Jews during the Holocaust. ...
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Palestinians unable to bury Rafah dead
RAFAH, May 23: On a blood-stained floor in a makeshift morgue in Rafah, the bodies of 16 Palestinians killed in Israel's bloodiest Gaza Strip raid in years lie in white shrouds, waiting to be buried. ...
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Bush suffers minor scrapes in accident
CRAWFORD, May 23: US President George W. Bush tumbled from his mountain bike during a Saturday ride on his ranch, scraping his chin, upper lip, both knees, his right hand and his nose, a White House spokesman said. ...
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Will Sonia wield power behind throne?
NEW DELHI: Manmohan Singh had barely opened the first file as India's prime minister when the carping started - he was a puppet, the real power was with Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi and she would wield it ceaselessly. ...
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Vajpayee wonders
NEW DELHI: Just a few weeks ago Atal Behari Vajpayee was criss-crossing India boasting at election rallies of how the country was "shining" under his rule. ...
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IAEA to report on Iran's atomic programme
VIENNA, May 23: The UN nuclear watchdog is aiming to finish this week a crucial report on Iran's atomic programme, after Tehran handed in an extensive declaration that it says answers US-led charges it is secretly developing nuclear weapons. ...
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Hundreds protest in Iran
TEHRAN, May 23: An estimated 400 people, some throwing firecrackers, demonstrated on Sunday for the fourth time in little over a week outside the British embassy in Iran against the actions of US-led forces in Iraq, witnesses said. ...
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Titanic sinks deeper
LONDON: Ocean explorer Robert Ballard is not a happy man. Nearly 20 years after he discovered the watery grave of the Titanic and then pleaded for it to be left alone ...
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