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Troops to stay under US command
WASHINGTON, June 3: US troops in violence-wracked Iraq will remain under US command after Iraq's interim government takes power on June 30, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said in television interviews released on Thursday. ... 
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For Iraq, lessons of another June 30
It happened amid a hotly contested presidential election campaign during an era of global turmoil - an occupying power granted sovereign independence to a distant and highly unstable colonial territory on June 30. ...
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'Crusade' edited out in Bush's speech
COLORADO SPRINGS, June 3: President George W. Bush on Wednesday quoted the famous D-Day words of Gen Dwight Eisenhower - all but one of them, "crusade". ...
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Bush takes refuge in history
WASHINGTON: Shock and awe was more than the first phase of the invasion of Iraq. It was the premise of Mr Bush's foreign policy. Fear of unrivalled power would prompt the dominoes to fall ...
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US scaling back ME democracy initiative
WASHINGTON, June 3: Two key proposals in a US-led Middle East reform initiative with Group of Eight allies may be altered significantly or dropped, US officials said on Wednesday, in what may be another sign of scaled-back American ambitions. ...
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Iran terms Iraq govt US lackey
TEHRAN, June 3: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Iraq's new caretaker administration on Thursday as a "lackey" government at the beck and call of the United States. ...
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Computer glitch hits UK airport
LONDON, June 3: A computer failure that briefly grounded all aircraft in Britain at the peak morning time caused airport chaos on Thursday and raised further questions about the state of the country's transport infrastructure. ...
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Rumsfeld to press BD for troops to Iraq
DHAKA, June 3: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld will arrive in Dhaka on Saturday on a two-day visit, first by an American defence minister, to Bangladesh, Foreign Ministry officials said here on Thursday. ...
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US govt sued over prisoner abuse
NEW YORK, June 3: Civil-rights and veterans groups on Wednesday sued the US government for what they said was illegally withholding records about American military abuse of prisoners held in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and other locations. ...
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India, US to strengthen defence cooperation
NEW DELHI, June 3: India and the United States said on Thursday they had agreed to strengthen cooperation in defence and the global war on terror following talks between a top US defence official and the new Indian government. ...
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China cautious on India's nuclear doctrine
New Delhi, June 3: China has responded cautiously to Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh's proposal that India, Pakistan and China work out a common nuclear doctrine to bring stability in the region ...
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Diana's mother dies
LONDON, June 3: The late Princess Diana's mother, whose own unhappy youthful marriage at the top of Britain's aristocracy mirrored that of her daughter, died on Thursday after a long illness, her family said. ...
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US Treasury gets adviser on Islamic finance
WASHINGTON, June 3: The US Treasury, which some Muslim groups have accused of bias, on Wednesday said it had appointed an Arab economist as its first in-house scholar to boost understanding of Islamic banking. ...
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Strike in Lanka after murder of newsman
BATTICALOA, June 3: Virtually the entire north and east came to a standstill on Wednesday when media associations based in the two areas launched a strike campaign to protest the killing of veteran Tamil journalist Aiyathurai Nadesan ...
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