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US rebukes Philippines over Iraq withdrawal
WASHINGTON, July 15: The White House scolded the Philippines on Thursday for deciding to pull its forces from Iraq ahead of schedule to save the life of a Filipino hostage, saying the move sent "the wrong signal" to terrorists. ... 
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Muslim identity gets boost: survey
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15: One of the most unexpected outcome of the Iraq war is that more and more Arabs now identify themselves as Muslims first, a trend that poses difficult and long-term challenges for the US foreign policy ...
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Iraq war poisoning European politics
BRUSSELS: Don't mention the war! Fifteen months after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Iraq war has become an enduring dividing line in European politics, poisoning the atmosphere among European Union and Nato leaders. ...
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Lessons Blair must learn
Lord Butler, delivering his review of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction on Wednesday, looked like the amiable Oxford head of college he has become. ...
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NZ suspends contacts with Israel over spy row
AUCKLAND, July 15: New Zealand suspended high-level contacts with Israel on Thursday after two suspected Mossad intelligence agents were convicted of trying to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport. ...
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Politicians admit attacking UK Muslims
LONDON, July 15: A television documentary aired on Thursday showed members of the far-right British National Party making highly derogatory remarks Islam and confessing to assaults on Muslims. ...
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Widow's billions go to accountant
KOLKATA, July 15: One of India's richest corporate empires, the Birla family, has united to challenge a huge bequest by one of its members to her accountant. ...
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S. Arabia condemns HR report
RIYADH, July 15: Saudi Arabia has reacted angrily to a scathing report from the New York-based human rights group alleging that foreign laborers in Saudi Arabia suffer from extreme exploitation and work under conditions which resemble slavery. ...
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11 Maoists killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, July 15: Eleven suspected Maoist rebels including two local leaders were killed in armed clashes with security forces in western Nepal on Thursday, police said. ...
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Flood-related accidents claim 80 lives: 34 prisoners swim to freedom
DHAKA, July 15: Fifty people were feared dead after a river burst its banks in Bangladesh and 30 people may have drowned after a crowded boat capsized in a river in eastern India as South Asia reeled under monsoon flooding on Thursday. ...
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Hawking claims solving black hole paradox
LONDON, July 15: Black holes, those fearsome galactic traps from which not even light can escape, may not be quite so terminally destructive after all ...
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Corporate power is the driving force behind US foreign policy
At the end of the second world war, I was the director for overall effects of the United States strategic bombing survey - Usbus, as it was known. ...
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