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Mayor's bodyguard killed in Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Sept 30: The top Kurdish bodyguard for the mayor of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq was found dead Thursday after being tortured, beaten with an axe and shot, police said. ... 
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Attacks have dented Iraqis confidence: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: Guerillas are succeeding through bombings and assassinations in convincing some Iraqis that the US-led effort to establish democracy in Iraq "is not going to work," US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday. ...
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Guards resign over discord with US
SAMARRA, Sept 30: The Iraqi national guard commander in Dhuluiya, scene of fighting between insurgents and US forces last week, said Thursday that he and his 200 men had resigned because of conflict with US troops in the town. ...
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It is deadlier than they admit
BAGHDAD: The insurgency in Iraq appears to be more widespread and deadly than Iraqi leaders are prepared to admit, according to military figures and a report by a private security firm. ...
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Republicans warn of 'Bible ban' if Kerry wins
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: Republicans are using scare tactics to garner votes in two key battleground states, Democrats charged Thursday, alleging that GOP campaign literature warns of a "ban on the Bible" if John Kerry is elected president. ...
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Vatican blasts occupation in UN speech
VATICAN CITY, Sept 30: The Vatican blasted the US-led war in Iraq and denounced terrorism in the first ever speech by an official of the Holy See at the United Nations general assembly in New York. ...
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Russia's cabinet okays Kyoto treaty
MOSCOW, Sept 30: Russia's cabinet backed the Kyoto treaty on Thursday in a key step that is likely to enable the UN's global warming treaty to enter into force despite its categorical rejection by the United States. ...
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Arthritis drug withdrawn
NEW YORK, Sept 30: Merck & Co on Thursday pulled its arthritis drug Vioxx off the market because it increases the risk of heart attack and stroke, a move that sent its shares plunging, erasing $25 billion of its market value. ...
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Israel plans large-scale operation
JERUSALEM, Sept 30: Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz has decided to carry out a large-scale military operation in northern Gaza aimed at halting Palestinian rocket attacks, Israeli radio stations reported Thursday. ...
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Sweden returns smuggled bones to aborigines
STOCKHOLM, Sept 30: Sweden handed over to a group of Australian aborigines on Thursday the remains of about 20 of their ancestors smuggled out of Australia almost 90 years ago by a Swedish zoologist who pretended they were kangaroo bones. ...
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Study blames painkiller for decline of Asian vultures
NEW DELHI, Sept 30: A new study into the catastrophic decline of vultures in India and Pakistan blames the drug diclofenac, a painkiller treatment for livestock which is widely sold across the counter on the Sub-continent. ...
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Time for secularists to fight back
LONDON: Last Thursday, Stuart Murphy, a controller at the BBC, took the decision not to show Pope town, a cartoon series set in the Vatican and featuring an infantile pontiff, celebrity-hungry nuns and venal cardinals ...
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Soldiers who died for lies
Blair says we are now fighting a "new war" in Iraq. That may suit him, to distract people from questions about the "old war" there. The one which killed my son Gordon at the age of 19. ...
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Nigeria celebrates freedom as 'war' looms
ABUJA: As Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, prepared to celebrate 44 years of independence on Friday, the threat by a Niger Delta militia to launch attacks against foreign oil company installations looms. ...
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