| 07 July 2004 | Wednesday | 18 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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Iraq WMDs may never be found, says Blair
LONDON, July 6: British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted on Tuesday that biological and chemical weapons, which he once insisted Saddam Hussein had primed for use, may never be found. ... 
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Iraqi tipoff led to US raid: Allawi
BAGHDAD, July 6: Iraqi forces provided the intelligence for a US airstrike on a suspected militant target in Fallujah on Monday, Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said. ...
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Haunting footage of suicide attacks
BAGHDAD, July 6: A top militant group has released a haunting documentary of what it says are some of the biggest attacks of the Iraqi resistance, featuring suicide bombers' last moments and a series of massive blasts. ...
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Israeli, six Palestinians killed in clashes
NABLUS, July 6: Six Palestinians and an official in an elite Israeli army unit were killed in a flare-up of violence in the occupied territories on Tuesday, as diplomats from the Middle East quartet met in a bid to revive the moribund roadmap. ...
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Tel Aviv not to change nuclear policy: PM
TEL AVIV, July 6: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Tuesday his country's policy of refusing to confirm or deny that it has nuclear weapons would continue. The statement preceded the arrival of the UN's atomic energy agency chief. ...
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Burial plan sparks spat between Iran, Britain
TEHRAN, July 6: An Iranian plan to bury the remains of some of its war dead in its embassy in one of London's most swanky neighbourhoods has sparked yet another row with Britain, an official said on Tuesday. ...
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No more lawless interventions
What prospects a sixth war for Tony Blair? It has been axiomatic that the mistakes made on the road to war in Iraq and during the occupation would deter future military interventions. ...
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CIA didn't inform govt on rollback, says paper
WASHINGTON, July 6: The Central Intelligence Agency failed to pass on to President George W. Bush before the Iraq war information from relatives of Iraqi scientists that Baghdad had abandoned its programme to develop weapons of mass destruction ...
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Kerry chooses former rival as running mate
PITTSBURGH, July 6: Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry on Tuesday chose former political rival North Carolina Sen John Edwards, a man with "guts and determination and political skills," as his vice presidential running mate. ...
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Violence victim pardons husband
RIYADH, July 6: Rania al Baz, the Saudi television announcer who was almost battered to death by her husband several months ago, has pardoned him on condition that he will not make any claim whatsoever for their two sons in his lifetime. ...
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Asia's economic policy goes back to rural roots
SINGAPORE: Alerted by the power of Asia's rural masses, governments are refocusing economic policy by emphasizing long-neglected agricultural development alongside the quest for ever more high-tech industrial and service jobs. ...
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Guantanamo: court judgment gives a blow to Bush administration
LONDON: The United States Supreme Court's two rulings that terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay and in America must have access to the US courts are among the most remarkable in the long history of that famous institution. ...
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