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UN advises Iraqis to set up body to oversee govt
BAGHDAD, June 2: The United Nations envoy in Baghdad urged Iraqis on Wednesday to press on with setting up a broad parliamentary-style body to help oversee the new interim government that is charged with organizing elections. ... 
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Aafia may be dead, says lawyer
NEW YORK, June 2: Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman sought by the US government, was not an Al Qaeda operative and might be dead or detained in Pakistan or the United States, a lawyer for the family told a press conference in Boston on Tuesday. ...
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Neo-cons collapse in Washington and Baghdad
WASHINGTON: Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on US foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo- conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favour ...
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US warns Sharon rivals against rejecting plan: Pullout from Gaza
TEL AVIV, June 2: President George Bush will not endorse any alternative version of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's troubled Gaza pullout plan, the American embassy said on Wednesday. ...
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A gift of dust and bones
GAZA: It is hardly the Mediterranean's shiniest pearl. And yet this strip of land - cramped, dusty and overrun with poverty and squalor - currently stands at the centre of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. ...
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Chalabi told Iran US had broken its code: paper
WASHINGTON, June 2: Disgraced Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi told an Iranian intelligence official in April that the United States had broken Iran's secret communications code, The New York Times said on Wednesday. ...
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BJP rejects Natwar's nuclear doctrine
New Delhi, June 2: A new nuclear doctrine proposed by Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, seeking a common stand between India, Pakistan and China, was rejected summarily on Wednesday by the main opposition Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP). ...
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Indian film director arrested over assistant's death
MUMBAI, June 2: Police arrested Bollywood director Kaizad Gustad on Wednesday on accusations of negligence causing the death of his British assistant, Nadia Khan, who was struck by a train while shooting a movie last week. ...
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US accuses Iran of hiding N-bomb
VIENNA, June 2: The United States said on Wednesday that Iran continues to cover up a nuclear weapons programme and that the latest report by the UN atomic watchdog had only made this more apparent. ...
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Saudi gunmen tricked way to freedom deal: adviser
BERLIN, June 2: Saudi Arabia struck a deal to free three hostage-takers in Saturday's suspected Al Qaeda attack because it feared accomplices could blow up an entire housing compound, a Saudi security adviser said on Tuesday. ...
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Australian wins Miss Universe contest
QUITO, June 2: Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins, a 20-year-old choreographer and avid surfer, won the Miss Universe title in Ecuador on Tuesday over a field of beauty queens who strut across a dazzling set in swimsuits and shimmering gowns. ...
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Historian Manchester dies at 82
HARTFORD, June 2: Historian William Manchester, who brought a novelist's flair to his stirring biographies of such 20th century giants as Winston Churchill, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday of cancer at age 82. ...
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Nepal king reinstates PM after two years
KATHMANDU, June 2: Two years of political turmoil in Nepal came full circle Wednesday as the king reappointed the prime minister he had fired in 2002, when he declared elected leaders incompetent at running the troubled kingdom. ...
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EU politicians fuelling crisis
The Conservatives are on the run, just when they might have landed a satisfactory blow on Labour in the Euro-elections. The UK Independence party is coming up fast on the inside rails, snatching 18 per cent of the vote ...
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