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UN deplores prisoner abuse
UNITED NATIONS, June 4: A UN Human rights report released on Friday said the treatment of Iraqi prisoners held by US-led coalition forces was "a stain upon the effort to bring freedom to Iraq." ... 
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Registration of Afghans behind schedule
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Voter registration for elections in September is badly behind schedule in northern Afghanistan, threatening the timing of the vote and the credibility of the elections should they still be conducted as scheduled. ...
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US failure in Iraq to replicate itself in ME
BEIRUT: In The New York Review of Books, veteran commentator Edward Sheehan wrote from Nablus recently about a Palestinian expectation that this summer would witness a simultaneous "explosion" in both Iraq and the occupied territories. ...
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Arab leaders reticent over interim Iraq govt
DUBAI: Arab states seem to be adopting a wait-and-see attitude, and reserving their kudos, after Iraqi leaders cut a deal on Tuesday with the United States and United Nations on a new interim government ...
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Calls mount for reform at CIA
WASHINGTON, June 4: Calls for reform at the CIA gathered steam on Friday following the resignation of its director George Tenet and deputy director for operations amid mounting criticism over intelligence provided ...
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US to hunt terrorists in S.E. Asia soon: Malaysia opposes Rumsfeld's idea
SINGAPORE, June 4: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday he hoped US forces would be hunting terrorists in Southeast Asia "pretty soon", warning that Muslim extremists were targeting moderate Muslim states the world over. ...
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Sharon sacks two ministers
TEL AVIV, June 4: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday sacked two ministers of the far-right National Union opposed to his Gaza pullout plan, his office said. ...
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US plans to send forces to ME: paper
WASHINGTON, June 4: The United States is considering withdrawing its two Army divisions from Germany, shift the US Navy's European headquarters from London to Naples and other moves in the biggest rearrangement of its forces ...
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Senate report led to Tenet's decision, says daily
WASHINGTON, June 4: A classified Senate report very critical of the CIA's performance on Iraq, especially its miscalculations on weapons of mass destruction, may have precipitated CIA Director George Tenet's resignation ...
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Delhi allays Dhaka's concerns
DHAKA, June 4: The Bangladesh foreign minister said on Friday that the new leadership in Delhi had assured Dhaka it wanted to resolve outstanding problems through dialogue instead of imposing unilateral decisions. ...
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BD will not send troops to Iraq: FM
DHAKA, June 4: The Bangladesh foreign minister said on Friday that his country would not send troops anywhere in the world without a UN mandate. ...
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IAEA contacts Malaysia for quizzing Tahir
KUALA LUMPUR, June 4: Malaysia hedged on Friday over whether it would allow a UN watchdog to question a detained agent involved in the nuclear black market scandal surrounding Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan. ...
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