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'Most Taliban want peace'
KABUL, June 6: The leader of a newly-resurrected Islamic party said on Sunday that a majority of former Taliban government officials want to play a positive role in Afghanistan's future. ... 
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Reforming Afghan police will take time
KABUL: Samia, 21, sits in a classroom surrounded by 19 men. Dressed in a green uniform, her Western-styled trousers belted around her waist and her hair tied in a bun beneath her green police hat ...
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'US to detain Iraqis after return of sovereignty'
BAGHDAD, June 6: The US-led coalition announced on Sunday it would still detain Iraqis considered a security threat even after the return of sovereignty later this month, sparking controversy in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. ...
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France, US differ over Iraq: Powell
WASHINGTON, June 6: Differences between the United States and France on Iraq have not gone away, even though the two countries are working together on a new UN resolution for that country, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday. ...
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Father of slain American accuses Bush of war crimes
WASHINGTON, June 6: The father of an American citizen beheaded in Iraq last month has said that he held the Bush administration responsible for the death of his son, Nick Berg. ...
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World leaders recall D-Day heroes
COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, June 6: World leaders honoured on Sunday the thousands of Allied troops who fought and died in the D-Day landings in Normandy and vowed to safeguard the transatlantic alliance forged 60 years ago. ...
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Tributes paid to Reagan ahead of state funeral LOS ANGELES, June 6: America mourned as tributes poured in from around the world on Sunday for Ronald Reagan, the former Hollywood star who as US president became one of the dominant figures of the 20th century. ...
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Cheney grilled as Bush struggles
NEW YORK: The growing sense of crisis within the Bush administration over the aftermath of the Iraq conflict deepened on Saturday after it emerged that Vice-President Dick Cheney has been questioned as part of the intelligence scandals engulfing American politics. ...
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Liberated Kurds find little freedom
ARBIL: Fruit and vegetable vendors push their carts around a street market in Arbil, the seat of governance of Iraqi Kurdistan. The city is very different from Baghdad. Kurdish is spoken here, and written large on shop windows. ...
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BD ruling party loses by-poll
DHAKA, June 6: The son of former Bangladeshi president Badruddoza Chowdhury on Sunday defeated the ruling alliance candidate in a high-profile parliamentary by-election, television reports said. ...
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Seoul's new house may be North's friend
SEOUL: North Korea's new best friend might be the incoming South Korean parliament, closely followed perhaps, in a few months, by a new Democratic president in the United States. ...
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Nigerian troops kill 17 pirates
LAGOS, June 6: Nigerian security forces patrolling the Warri waterway in the restive Niger delta region have shot dead 17 sea pirates following a shootout, a military spokesman said on Sunday. ...
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