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MP moves to impeach Blair over Iraq
LONDON, Aug 26: A British parliamentarian said on Thursday he would try to have Tony Blair impeached over the Iraq invasion, but the move looked likely to embarrass the prime minister at most rather than drive him from office. ... 
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Al Qaeda man defies US tribunal
GUANTANAMO BAY, Aug 26: An Al Qaeda member who made propaganda films for Osama bin Laden said on Thursday he would have to be forced to attend a US war crimes tribunal if he could not represent himself. ...
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US army report on prison abuse depicts gory picture
WASHINGTON, Aug 26: The official US Army report on prison abuses in Iraq depicts a gory picture; detailing physical and mental torture, rape, and at least one death in US custody at Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison. ...
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Combing for Taliban remnants
KANDAHAR: "That is the village with the suspect," crackles the platoon leader over the radio as the four Humvees race over the southern Afghanistan desert on their mission. ...
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Iraq: a ruinous trap of US making
WASHINGTON: There was no "imminent threat" to the United States from Iraq. Then there was no strategy for building a new Iraq. "Hubris and ideology" ruled. Now, "Iraq is more dangerous to the US potentially than it was at the moment we went to war". ...
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Guantanamo 'designed to convict', says expert WASHINGTON: Pre-trial hearings that began on Tuesday at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba of prisoners taken in the US 'war on terrorism' are 'designed to convict,' says one expert. ...
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S. Arabia frees militant's wife
RIYADH, Aug 26: Saudi authorities have released the wife of the alleged Al Qaeda chief in the kingdom, Saleh Muhammad Al-Aufi, after a month in detention, a Saudi interior ministry official told the local press. ...
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Twins born into one body in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 26: An Afghan woman has given birth in Iran to twin boys whose heads share the same body, doctors said on Thursday, adding the children stood little chance of survival. ...
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Man regrows jawbone
PARIS, Aug 26: A German man has been able to eat his first solid meal in nine years, thanks to a pioneering surgical technique in which the patient incubated a replacement jawbone in a muscle on his back. ...
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Opposition boycotts Lok Sabha session: India's $104bn budget passed
NEW DELHI, Aug 26: India's opposition parties stayed away from parliament on Thursday, paving the way for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government to pass a 104 billion dollar budget without a minute's debate. ...
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5 killed in attacks on buses in Assam
GUWAHATI, Aug 26: Five people were killed and scores wounded in northeastern India on Thursday when militants blew up two buses and threw a grenade into a market, officials said. ...
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EU urges 'fair probe' into BD bomb attack
DHAKA, Aug 26: The presidency of the European Union on Thursday asked the government of Bangladesh to promptly investigate the recent bomb attack on an Awami League rally in a "fair and transparent manner without political interference." ...
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Thatcher's son wanted 'to leave SA'
CAPE TOWN, Aug 26: The son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to leave South Africa before his arrest on suspicion of involvement in a coup attempt in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, police said on Thursday. ...
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Theories on Russian plane crashes
MOSCOW, Aug 26: Russian investigators maintained Thursday that they were still pursuing all leads into the near-simultaneous crashes of two passenger planes hundreds of kilometres apart soon after they left the same airport. ...
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