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US govt ordered to give torture papers to rights groups
NEW YORK, Aug 13: The US government has less than two weeks to start giving civil rights groups documents about the torture of prisoners held by US forces at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and other facilities, a federal judge ordered on Thursday. ... 
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CIA's new boss met former ISI chief on 9/11: officials
WASHINGTON, Aug 13: Peter Goss, the man picked by President Bush to head the CIA, was having breakfast with former ISI chief Gen Mahmud Ahmad as the Sept 11 attacks unfolded, says information released by US intelligence officials. ...
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Tehran accused of aiding fighters
BAGHDAD: Security officials in Baghdad were on Thursday urgently investigating the background of 30 Iranians who were caught fighting for a rebel Shia cleric in Iraq, amid mounting concern over the involvement of the Tehran regime in the uprising. ...
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Najaf uprising puts Iraqi govt in a fix
Radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army have given the Americans and the interim Iraqi government a specific target to fight and crush. ...
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US keeps winning battles, losing wars
WASHINGTON: Once again, US armed forces appear on the verge of winning a decisive military victory in Iraq - this time in the holy city of Najaf. ...
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Israel could give up Golan: army chief
JERUSALEM, Aug 13: Israel could hand back the Golan Heights to Syria as part of an eventual peace deal, armed forces chief General Moshe Yaalon said in an interview published on Friday. ...
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Goss thinks he is not fit to head CIA
NEW YORK, Aug 13: Congressman Porter Goss, nominated by US President George Bush to head the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in an interview in March had disqualified himself for the job saying: "I couldn't get a job with CIA today. I am not qualified." ...
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Law change fails to stop protests in Manipur
IMPHAL, Aug 13: Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in north-eastern India on Friday and others brought their dogs onto the streets during rallies demanding an anti-terror law be scrapped after troops killed a local woman. ...
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NYT to fight subpoena on CIA leak story
NEW YORK, Aug 13: A Washington grand jury, investigating the disclosure of the name of a CIA undercover agent, has summoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller, but the newspaper said on Friday it would fight the order. ...
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BD writer found dead in Germany
DHAKA, Aug 13: Bangladesh's maverick writer Humayun Azad, who survived a deadly attack in February this year, was found dead in his apartment in Munich on Thursday. ...
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Pro-democracy demos in Maldives
COLOMBO, Aug 13: The Maldives declared a state of emergency on Friday after using teargas and truncheons to break up thousands of demonstrators making an unprecedented call for political reform in the tiny resort island nation. ...
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Regional approach needed to manage South Asian rivers
NEW DELHI: The recent spate of life-threatening floods, which has affected hundreds of millions in South Asia, once again points to the need for a regional approach to managing the Himalayan rivers that flow through India ...
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