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Sadr asks fighters to leave Najaf
NAJAF, June 16: Radical Shia leader Moqtada Sadr on Wednesday told members of his armed militia who do not live in this holy city to go home, in a key step toward peace in Najaf after fierce clashes with US troops. ... 
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Oil firm's official shot dead in Kirkuk: Fresh attack on pipeline
BAGHDAD, June 16: Anti-US guerillas killed an Iraqi oil official and attacked foreign contractors on Wednesday after strangling the country's oil export lifeline. ...
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US marines arrest six Iraqi troops
BAGHDAD, June 16: Marines arrested six members of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corp on suspicion of involvement in a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday morning in western Iraq that wounded five locals, the US military said. ...
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UK opposes death penalty for Saddam
LONDON, June 16: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday he opposed the use of the death penalty in Iraq should former dictator Saddam Hussein be found guilty at any trial. ...
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Life, 85-year terms in Lashkar case
WASHINGTON, June 16: A US federal judge who on Tuesday sentenced two Muslim youths for planning to cooperate with Lashkar-i-Taiba, has acknowledged that even murderers and Al Qaeda suspects were dealt with less severely. ...
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Reality blurs Bush's rosy Afghan vision
KABUL: Standing side by side with President Hamid Karzai in the balmy surrounds of the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, President George W. Bush hailed Afghanistan as a model for the future of Iraq. ...
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9/11 body faults air defences
WASHINGTON, June 16: The commission investigating the Sept 11, 2001, attacks in the United States concluded US air defenses were disastrously unprepared for a major terrorist strike. ...
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Ex-officials call for vote against Bush
PARIS, June 16: Twenty-six US former senior diplomatic and military officials signed a letter published on Wednesday in France's Le Monde newspaper criticizing President George W. Bush's foreign policy, especially in Iraq ...
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Scientists claim 'teleportation' breakthrough
PARIS, June 16: Scientists in Austria and the United States say they have "teleported" the properties of one atom to another, an achievement that brings closer the dream of super-fast quantum computers. ...
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EU offers 'strategic' partnership to India
BRUSSELS, June 16: The European Commission on Wednesday called for a "strategic partnership" between India and the European Union, putting relations with Delhi on a par with its treatment of China. ...
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Iran threatens to resume enrichment
TEHRAN/VIENNA, June 16: Iran threatened on Wednesday to resume uranium enrichment, a process that could be used to make atomic bombs, if the UN nuclear agency passed a toughly worded resolution rebuking Tehran for poor cooperation. ...
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India's new social agenda irks rich
NEW DELHI: The new government is on a collision course with the powerful corporate sector and the relatively affluent middle class because of its plans to enforce affirmative action on behalf of socially deprived groups in India's caste hierarchy. ...
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