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EU 'big 3' refuse to punish Tehran: Nuclear programme
VIENNA, June 5: Europe's big three - Britain, France and Germany - are not ready to break off cooperation with Iran in uncovering its nuclear secrets despite damning new revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog ... 
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Blair fooling himself over Iraq WMDs, says expert
LONDON, June 5: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is fooling himself if he thinks weapons of mass destruction will still be found in Iraq, David Kay, the former head of the US-British Iraq Survey Group (ISG), said on Saturday. ...
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Protests greet Rumsfeld in Dhaka
DHAKA, June 5: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who arrived in Dhaka on a two-day visit on Saturday, has made no formal request to Bangladesh government to send troops to Iraq, Foreign Minister Morshed Khan and the American Ambassador in Dhaka told journalists. ...
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British inquiry extending remit
LONDON, June 5: A British inquiry into flawed intelligence before the invasion of Iraq has interviewed senior ministers and appears to be extending its remit into the controversial area of political responsibility ...
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US is part of the problem: Singapore PM
SINGAPORE, June 5: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld delivered a strong justification for the "war on terrorism" here on Saturday a day after being told by his host and close ally that the United States was "part of the problem". ...
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Reagan has only weeks to live: official
PARIS, June 5: Former US President Ronald Reagan's health is deteriorating and he could have only weeks to live, a US source close to the situation said on Saturday. ...
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Abu Ghraib images are familiar to Irish republicans
LONDON: News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great surprise in republican Ireland. People in Ireland have seen and heard it all before. Some of them have even survived that type of treatment. ...
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UN's integrity questioned
UNITED NATIONS: When US President George W Bush desperately sought UN assistance last month to organize elections in Iraq and help form a new interim government, some senior UN officials bragged the United States was crawling back to the world body on bended knee. ...
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Blair believes he is still in charge
LONDON: Tony Blair is planning an instant political fightback in the wake of next week's European and local election results amid early signs that a postal voting experiment is not delivering Labour's desired big increase in working-class turnout. ...
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G8 set to snub poverty, development issues
WASHINGTON: The Middle East, security, Iraq, nuclear proliferation, oil and the world economy will likely squeeze aside other pressing issues like HIV/Aids, development, poverty and debt at the coming meeting of the leaders of the world's richest countries, activists here say. ...
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Security around Saudi oil insufficient
DHAHRAN: In the desert washes where Americans first found this kingdom's black gold, Saudis scrambled this week to harden their defences. New security checkpoints cropped up at the edge of the vast tangles of steel in the oil fields. ...
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Blaming feminism for murder
TOKYO: A member of Japan's cabinet drew fierce criticism on Friday after suggesting that feminism was behind the killing of a 12- year-old girl, allegedly by a female classmate at her school. ...
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