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Zarqawi: an enigma on US most wanted list
BAGHDAD, July 18: Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian extremist accused of masterminding the Iraqi insurgency, is proving just as elusive as his suspected ally, Osama bin Laden. ... 
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Lawlessness adds to Palestinian sufferings
RAMALLAH, July 18: Palestinians are witnessing a breakdown in law and order that threatens to destroy the fabric of their society and which cannot merely be blamed on the Israeli occupation ...
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Talking the language of a new Afghanistan
LONDON: Dr Massaouda Jalal is not a winner yet, but she has won at least something just by contesting the presidential elections in Afghanistan as the only woman candidate. ...
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Yemen army kills 90 armed rebels
SANAA, July 18: The Yemeni army has killed about 90 armed backers of a rebel Muslim preacher holding out in a remote mountainous area of the country, military sources said on Sunday. ...
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China slams US resolution on Taiwan
BEIJING, July 18: China has angrily slammed a US Congress resolution expressing "unwavering commitment" to providing Taiwan with the means to defend itself, and argued it will harm peace and stability, state media said on Sunday. ...
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Survivors of school fire battle for life
KUMBAKONAM, July 18: Indian doctors battled on Sunday to save the lives of survivors from a devastating fire in a school in southern India that killed 90 children. ...
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France for Mediterranean defence pact
ALGIERS, July 18: French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie on Saturday proposed a defence partnership between Europe and three North African countries. ...
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Plot survivor says Hitler should have been killed in 1943
KREUZBERG, July 18: One of the few remaining survivors of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler 60 years ago is still haunted by the memories of his fellow conspirators hanged or executed by firing squad in the aftermath of the failed coup. ...
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Hopes fade for Darfur peace
ADDIS ABABA, July 18: Rebels from Darfur left Addis Ababa on Sunday, dealing a blow to international efforts to launch peace talks with Khartoum as aid groups warned of a worsening crisis in the region of western Sudan, where at least a million people have fled their villages. ...
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Democrats seek UN poll observers: Congress embarrassed
WASHINGTON: A group of opposition Democrats in the House of Representatives has asked United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan to send UN observers to November's presidential election. ...
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Bush, Kerry run on 'values'
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry are debating big issues, to be sure, but in the race toward the November 2 presidential election, no trip-up, no character flaw in a presidential candidate is too small to pass up. ...
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Intelligence loses its reputation
THE MESSAGE of the Butler Report and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has been the same. The British and American intelligence services have been compromised and politicized. ...
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42 would-be immigrants held in Spain
MOTRIL, July 18: Spanish police said on Sunday they had arrested 42 Moroccan would-be immigrants off the south coast who were attempting to reach shore in a makeshift boat. ...
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HIV-positive man defying death for 23 years
BANGKOK: By any measure, Mark Milano should be a dead man. Yet 23 years after contracting HIV, the activist has defied the odds to stay one step ahead of the virus that has killed nearly all of its early victims and is ravaging the developing world. ...
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