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US marines poised to storm Fallujah
FALLUJAH, Oct 29: US marines prepared on Friday to storm the Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi to crush militants. "We are gearing up for a major operation," Brigadier General Denis Hajlik told reporters at a base near Fallujah. ... 
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Qorei and Abbas to stand in for Arafat
RAMALLAH, Oct 29: Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's powers have been temporarily passed to two veteran associates - both have served under him as prime minister - until he recovers or dies, officials said on Friday. ...
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'Good riddance'
TEL AVIV, Oct 29: Many in Israel hope they have seen the last of Yasser Arafat. "We will not miss him," said Ehud Yaari, a commentator for the private Channel Two television network. ...
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Elysee says Chirac took decision on Arafat
ROME, Oct 29: French President Jacques Chirac personally took the decision to admit ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for treatment in a French hospital after a sudden deterioration in his health, his staff said on Friday. ...
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Post-Arafat power struggle possible
RAMALLAH: Palestinians are well prepared for the death of Yasser Arafat. Through television reports of foreigners paying homage at Mr Arafat's battered compound and prison, Palestinians have watched their 75-year-old leader degenerate into a feeble, shaking and often incoherent shadow over the past two years. ...
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Kerry to be next president: astrologers
NEW DELHI, Oct 29: Indian astrologers say that the planets favour John Kerry to win the White House race. "For months opinion polls have shown the race between Bush and Kerry ...
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EU leaders eager to see changing of the guard in US
BRUSSELS: They may be carefully steering clear of any meddling in the increasingly heated US presidential contest but it's an open secret in Brussels and other European capitals: With fingers crossed, most European Union leaders are watching and waiting for a change of guard in Washington. ...
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Republicans object to Florida voter list
MIAMI, Oct 29: Florida was again in the eye of the electoral storm Friday amid claims of illegal voting, intimidation and other irregularities reminiscent of the five-week chaos that marked the 2000 presidential election. ...
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Republicans trying to keep away minorities: HR groups
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: Civil rights groups representing blacks, Hispanics and the disabled on Thursday accused Republican Party workers of trying to keep US minorities from voting. ...
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Republican desertions could cost Bush
WASHINGTON: While the vast majority of Democrats who voted for Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in 2000 are now lining up behind Senator John Kerry, Republicans unhappy with President George W. Bush are having a much harder time deciding what to do next Tuesday. ...
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Bush's fundraisers peddle influence abroad
WASHINGTON: When the government of El Salvador wanted help extending immigration benefits to its citizens in the United States, it turned to a new lobbying shop set up by Miami lawyer Alberto Cardenas Jr., a star of the Republican fundraising machine. ...
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Tied US vote to favour Bush
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: With four days to go to an election that every poll suggests is too close to call, American political scientists fear a new quirk that could threaten the country's embattled electoral system: a tie. ...
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Star-studded parade
MADISON, Oct 29: President George Bush and Democrat challenger John Kerry parade personalities from sports and the entertainment world in their quest for voter support in what increasingly appears a photo-finish election. ...
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Ukraine: where Cold War never died
KIEV: Cries of election fraud, furious crowds in the street, nervous police pondering mutiny as a beleaguered government wonders whether to impose a state of emergency - the dramatic first round of the upheavals which led to a change of power in Georgia last autumn and in Serbia four years ago may be about to re-emerge in Ukraine. ...
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