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Shrine damaged in attack
NAJAF, May 25: The Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, the holiest site in Iraq, was damaged on Tuesday by rockets or mortars, witnesses said. In clashes between the occupying troops and militiamen, 12 Iraqis were killed in Najaf and Kufa. ... 
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Bush govt considering revising Iraq poll date
WASHINGTON, May 25: The Bush administration is considering moving faster toward self-rule in Iraq by bringing forward the date for its first national elections from next January to as early as this fall ...
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US recalls top Iraq general
WASHINGTON, May 25: The United States is replacing Lt-Gen Ricardo Sanchez, its top military official in Iraq, at the end of next month, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. ...
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Bush invites 5 Muslim leaders to G-8 summit
WASHINGTON, May 25: President George Bush has invited the leaders of five Muslim states to meet G-8 leaders on June 9 at Sea Island, Georgia, the White House said on Tuesday. ...
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US dodges Iraqi sovereignty
UNITED NATIONS: The United States and Britain are asking the UN Security Council to transfer political and administrative power to Iraq while holding back sovereign power that legitimately belongs to the Iraqi people ...
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US faces opposition over mly control: Draft resolution on power transfer
UNITED NATIONS, May 25: The United States faced misgivings from other UN Security Council members on Tuesday over the powers and length of stay of a US-led force when authority is handed over to an Iraqi interim government on June 30. ...
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US senators call for Pakistani's release
SAN FRANCISCO, May 25: Five prominent Democratic senators have joined Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer of New York in calling for the release of Ansar Mahmood, a Pakistani national detained for 2 1/2 years in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. ...
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Bush can't win; Kerry can only lose
LONDON: Whoever said that misfortunes come in threes must have had George Bush in mind these past few days. First the US president falls off his mountain bike and grazes his face. ...
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Iran may have duped US, says paper
LONDON, May 25: Officials in Washington suspect Iran duped the United States into invading Iraq by slipping bogus intelligence to Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC), The Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday. ...
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Russia, Iran to sign deal on spent N-fuel
MOSCOW, May 25: Iran will sign a deal soon with Russia obliging it to return spent fuel from a new nuclear reactor to Moscow, a Russian official said, in a move intended to ease US fears the material could be used to make bombs. ...
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FBI apologizes to lawyer for error
LOS ANGELES, May 25: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday apologized to an American lawyer mistakenly detained for two weeks on suspicion of involvement in the deadly Madrid train bombings. ...
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Indian cabinet hires two for same job
NEW DELHI, May 25: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has promised to sort out a mistake involving the appointment of two ministers to the same government post, one of the two candidates said on Tuesday. ...
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North Korea ships uranium to Libya?
WASHINGTON, May 25: The US State Department said on Monday it is looking into a report that North Korea secretly provided Libya with nearly two tons of uranium that can be enriched to nuclear-bomb-grade level. ...
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Defiance rises against strikes in Nepal
KATHMANDU: For years, people in the world's only Hindu kingdom have enjoyed a forced day off from work whenever a "bandh" or general strike is called by mainstream political parties or by the Maoist rebels. ...
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