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Legal net widens in Iraq prison scandal
MANNHEIM, Aug 24: A US prosecutor acknowledged on Tuesday that charges were being prepared against senior US military intelligence officials and other staff over abuses committed against inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. ... 
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Govt, rebels set agenda for Darfur peace talks
ABUJA, Aug 24: Sudanese government envoys and the leaders of two rebel groups from the war-torn Darfur region agreed on Tuesday to an agenda for African Union-sponsored peace talks aimed at resolving the 18-month-old war in the far west of Sudan. ...
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No hospital for Palestinian strikers: Israel
JERUSALEM, Aug 24: Israel declared its hospitals off limits on Tuesday to 2,800 Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons, saying they could be treated in makeshift facilities behind bars if taken ill. ...
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Greek leftists oppose Powell's visit
ATHENS, Aug 24: A left-wing Greek organization opposed to the US presence in Iraq said it was planning demonstrations on Friday to protest the arrival this week in Athens of US Secretary of State Colin Powell. ...
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FBI sting angers Muslims in US
ALBANY, Aug 24: Angry and saddened, members of a Muslim community in New York state's capital have been staying away from their mosque for fear of being labelled terrorists and await a bail hearing for two men accused of supporting terrorism. ...
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Understanding Sadr and his resistance
LONDON: Secular as well as Islamic anti-occupation forces in Iraq are now beginning to drop their caution about Moqtada al- Sadr and are openly siding with his resistance forces in Najaf. ...
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Americans to flesh out Washington's appearance
MOUNT VERNON: Americans know George Washington as the dour founding father with white hair and ponytail depicted on US currency, but most people have little idea what the nation's first president really looked like beyond this stock image. ...
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Could Iraq decide US, UK elections?
LONDON: Viewing figures for television news - from London to San Francisco - tell exactly the same story. Faraway places with strange-sounding names don't set punters' pulses racing any longer. ...
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Manmohan govt faces first test
NEW DELHI, August 24: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-month old government was headed for a make-or-break political season on Tuesday after the country's Election Commission announced fresh assembly elections in Maharashtra and Arunachal Pradesh ...
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Rail stations attacked on first day of strike in BD: 80 hurt, 200 arrested
DHAKA, Aug 24: Opposition activists in Bangladesh attacked railway stations and battled police across the country on Tuesday on the first day of a two-day strike called to protest against a deadly grenade attack at the weekend. ...
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AL leader dies of grenade injury
DHAKA, Aug 24: Ivy Rahman, the women affairs secretary of the opposition Awami League, who received fatal injuries in the Saturday's grenade attacks, died in the early hours of Tuesday after three days of fight for life in the Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka. ...
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Pakistani holds function for Lankan kids
DAMBULLA, Aug 24: Over a hundred under-privileged children were entertained for over three hours at a function organized by Pakistani artist and social worker Jimmy Engineer at a hotel here on Tuesday. ...
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Maoists suspend Kathmandu blockade
KATHMANDU, Aug 24: Nepal's Maoist rebels have temporarily suspended a crippling economic blockade of the capital from Wednesday, saying the move is in response to popular appeals. ...
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Malaysian PM vows pro-farmers agenda
KUALA LUMPUR: Small Malay farmers, struggling daily to make ends meet, are now within the sight of newly elected Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. ...
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