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Shias oppose mention of Kurd self-rule: UN resolution on Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 8: The political leadership of Iraq's Shias and Kurds sparred on Tuesday over the wording of a new UN Security Council resolution recognizing Iraq's sovereignty ... 
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Four foreign hostages freed
BAGHDAD, June 8: Special troops from the occupation forces raided a hideout south of Baghdad on Tuesday and freed three Italian hostages held for almost two months and a Pole abducted last week. ...
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Six soldiers killed
WARSAW, June 8: At least six soldiers serving with Polish-led forces in Iraq were killed and several more wounded in a blast on Tuesday during a demining operation, officials said. ...
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Fighting hampers Afghan aid work
KANDAHAR: "We are not able to do our jobs. We are not even monitoring what is happening." The words of Riak Gok, a UN civil education officer in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar ...
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New evidence: prison torture was approved at top levels
WASHINGTON: A classified Pentagon report, providing a series of legal arguments apparently intended to justify abuses and torture against detainees, appears to undermine public assurances by senior US officials ...
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Brahimi asks US to release prisoners
UNITED NATIONS, June 8: In order to ensure smooth transition for the interim Iraqi government on June 30, UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi on Monday urged the US military to quickly free as many inmates as possible from its prisons in Iraq. ...
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Rally deplores Israeli, US policies
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8: Anti-war protesters on Tuesday denounced torture of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib jail and called for an early return of US troops from Iraq. ...
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G8 likely to tighten curbs on N-arms
SAVANNAH, June 8: Leaders of the industrial world meeting for their annual summit are close to agreement on a plan to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, a senior US official said on Tuesday. ...
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16 Muslims arrested in raids across Europe
MILAN, June 8: Italy arrested an Egyptian alleged to have plotted the Madrid train bombings and Belgium held 15 people for preparing a "terrorist attack" on Tuesday ...
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UK militant's widow breaks down in court
LONDON, June 8: The widow of a British Muslim suspected of plotting a suicide attack in Israel broke down in court on Tuesday as she recalled an e-mail sent by her husband shortly before his death, insisting she had no idea of his plans. ...
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G8 to back American plan for ME
SAVANNAH: The Bush administration's plan to promote democracy in the Middle East - the centrepiece of its agenda at this week's summit of the Group of Eight industrialized nations - has been accepted by Europeans and Arabs only reluctantly ...
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Laloo's plan to reinvent the wheel
NEW DELHI, June 8: India's maverick new Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav called on Tuesday for train wheels to be made from junk scrap metal to deal a blow to a mafia flourishing on selling garbage from the country's vast rail network. ...
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Gas pipelines to India not pipe-dreams
NEW DELHI: Growing energy demands and the more open attitude of India's new government towards its neighbours may see the revival of plans to pipe natural gas into the country from Iran to the west and Myanmar in the east. ...
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American shot dead in Riyadh
RIYADH, June 8: Gunmen killed an American working for a US company in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday, the fifth attack on Westerners and other foreigners in the world's top oil exporter in five weeks. ...
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