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Attempt on life of Afghan politician
KABUL, July 12: A senior female Afghan politician on Monday survived an attempt on her life in eastern Afghanistan in the latest attack on government and electoral workers in the area. ... 
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EU opposes Iraq move on death penalty
BAGHDAD, July 12: Iraq's interim President Sheikh Ghazi al Yawar confirmed on Monday the country would soon reinstate the death penalty, as the European Union voiced its strong opposition to the sentence. ...
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Blair knew Iraq had no usable weapons: ex-FM
It seems almost cruel to remind those who sold the case for the Iraq war of what they claimed at the time. But it is necessary, because they appear to be forgetting it themselves. ...
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France, Iraq restore diplomatic ties
PARIS, July 12: France and Iraq on Monday re-established diplomatic ties cut more than 13 years ago by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 1991. ...
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Sharon, Peres toform coalition
JERUSALEM, July 12: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon won agreement from veteran opposition leader Shimon Peres on Monday to try to forge a unity government that could push through a plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip. ...
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Case for sanctions against Israel
LONDON: The bomb attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday highlights the desperate need to achieve a peace settlement. It highlights, too, the futility of the wall Israel is building in Palestinian land ...
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US stand on AIDS sparks controversy
BANGKOK, July 12: A controversy erupted at a global AIDS conference on Monday over whether abstaining from sex or using condoms was more effective to prevent the disease. ...
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Iran rules out direct N-talks with US
TEHRAN, July 12: Iran ruled out on Monday holding direct talks with the United States on its nuclear programme. "There is no justification for accepting suggestions to hold negotiations with a country which adopts a bullying attitude towards others," Hassan Rohani ...
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Putin urges US to be more business-friendly
MOSCOW, July 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a keynote address on Monday that he was seeking to build ties with Washington but that full trust could only develop with more investments from the United States. ...
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Delhi downgrades Armitage's protocol
NEW DELHI, July 12: India will play by the rule book with the United States when National Security Advisor Jyotindra Nath Dixit, and not the foreign minister, hosts US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage who begins a two-day visit from Tuesday. ...
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Floods leave 4.5m homeless
NEW DELHI, July 12: Heavy rains over the weekend aggravated flooding in India, Bangladesh and Nepal, leaving 4.5 million people homeless. Indian and Nepalese authorities have called in army personnel to help rescue hundreds of thousands of marooned people. ...
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Mosque raided in Germany
FRANKFURT, July 12: German police raided a Moroccan mosque in the western city of Frankfurt on suspicion that children were being shown violent extremist propaganda, prosecutors said on Monday. ...
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Chandrika ally in campaign against LTTE
COLOMBO, July 12: Following last Wednesday's suicide attack by the LTTE in Colombo, the ultra-leftist and Marxist coalition partner of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government ...
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Justice for Agent Orange victims
HANOI: American lawyers representing Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange are quietly confident that the manufacturers of the defoliant used by US forces during the Vietnam War will be held to account. ...
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