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Ankara drops plans to criminalize adultery
ANKARA, Sept 14: Facing a popular outcry at home and stern warnings from Europe, the Turkish government discreetly stepped back on Tuesday from a plan to introduce a motion into a crucial penal reform bill to make adultery a crime punishable by prison. ... 
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Refusing to whitewash Abu Ghraib
WASHINGTON: Cynics will not be surprised to learn that senior military commanders and Bush administration officials are on the verge of avoiding any accountability for the scandal of prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
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Afghanistan remains unstable
WEEKEND violence in the western city of Herat is a reminder of how volatile the situation in Afghanistan remains, three years after the US overthrew the Taliban and less than four weeks before presidential elections there. ...
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UN condemns Herat violence
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 14: The UN Security Council members on Monday condemned Sunday's violence in Herat, Afghanistan, where the regional offices and compounds of the United Nations mission and agencies and non-governmental organizations were ransacked and seriously damaged ...
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US, Russia shift uranium from Uzbekistan
WASHINGTON, Sept 14: The United States and Russia carried out a secret operation last week to remove weapons-grade uranium from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, whose government is facing growing unrest, said the Energy Department. ...
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US expresses concern over more powers to Putin
WASHINGTON, Sept 14: The United States on Tuesday expressed concern about moves by Russian President Vladimir Putin to strengthen his powers. "These steps certainly raise concerns," said US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. ...
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Settlers to get $500,000: Israeli cabinet approves plan
JERUSALEM, Sept 14: Israel's security cabinet approved cash advances on Tuesday to entice Gaza settlers to evacuate their homes, as police investigated death threats against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sparked by his pullout plan. ...
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US to moot debt write off: Plan to benefit 27 countries
WASHINGTON, Sept 14: The Bush administration will put forth a plan before a donors' conference in Paris this week to cancel billions of dollars in debt owed by some of the world's poorest nations. ...
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Sharon suggests Israel could kill or expel Arafat
JERUSALEM, Sept 14: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quoted on Tuesday as suggesting that Israel would either assassinate Palestinian President Yasser Arafat or expel him from the occupied territories. ...
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Iran refuses to suspend uranium enrichment
TEHRAN, Sept 14: Iran refuses to accept an unlimited suspension of uranium enrichment and will not stop the manufacture of centrifuges, one of the country's top nuclear officials was quoted as saying on Tuesday. ...
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Racism is getting worse: Amnesty
WASHINGTON: The practice of profiling by race, religion, and national origin on the part of US law-enforcement agencies not only violates the human rights of its targets, but is also often counter-productive ...
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North Korea: out in the cold
LONDON: The Korean peninsula is probably the most dangerous place on earth, made worse by those who extrapolate dodgy intelligence to fanciful "worst-case" scenarios that become the sand on which policy is founded. ...
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