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Florida voters complain of irregularities
WEST PALM BEACH, Nov 2: A number of claims of irregularities surfaced on Tuesday as voters in trouble-prone Florida cast ballots under the watchful eyes of thousands of observers. ... 
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Bush wins in New Hampshire hamlet
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: President George Bush won an early election day victory in the small New Hampshire hamlet of Dixville Notch which is renowned for casting the country's first ballots in US presidential elections. ...
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Kerry to visit Kennedy haunt
BOSTON, Nov 2: John Kerry planned to have lunch on Tuesday at one of former president John F. Kennedy's favourite restaurants. The superstitious Democratic presidential candidate ...
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President for early result
CRAWFORD, Nov 2: President George Bush expressed concern that a decisive result to the US election must be quickly announced as he voted on Tuesday, publicly confident of securing a new four-year term. ...
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European press voices dread, anxiety
PARIS, Nov 2: Europe's newspapers on Tuesday voiced anxiety and dread as they mulled the future of America, Europe and the world according to who wins the cliffhanger US presidential vote, dubbed the "mother of all elections." ...
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Americans at the polls: a snapshot
* Voters turned out in unusually large numbers Tuesday to deliver a verdict on U.S. President George W. Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry after a bitter White House race that remained too close to call. ...
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Republicans to challenge Ohio voters
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the Republican Party could place thousands of representatives inside Ohio polling centres to challenge voters' eligibility, The New York Times website reported. ...
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Embittered blacks show big turnout
RIVIERA BEACH, Nov 2: Anger over the lost votes of 2000 is still simmering in this mainly black town of south Florida, where voters turned out massively Tuesday, many vowing they would not be disenfranchized again. ...
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Beijing refuses to disown Bush swipe
BEIJING, Nov 2: China refused to deny on Tuesday that a stinging article by former foreign minister Qian Qichen criticizing President George W. Bush reflected the government's opinion, but said the story was not authorised for publication. ...
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A disaster if Bush wins, says Mahathir
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2: Malaysia's outspoken former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said it would be "a disaster" if George W. Bush was re-elected in Tuesday's US presidential election. ...
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Oil exports from N. Iraq halted after attacks
BAGHDAD, Nov 2: Saboteurs on Tuesday mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up five pipelines in the north in 24 hours, and forcing a stoppageof exports via Turkey, oil officials said on Tuesday. ...
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Saddam's family dumps lawyer
AMMAN, Nov 2: The family of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on Tuesday sacked the Jordanian head of his defence team amid bickering over the handling of his case, as they await his trial on charges of crimes against humanity. ...
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Arafat doctors rule out leukaemia
CLAMART, Nov 2: French doctors said on Tuesday Yasser Arafat was responding to treatment and ruled out leukaemia, though aides said the Palestinian leader could remain in a French military hospital for several more weeks. ...
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Iran: EU drops key demand
VIENNA, Nov 2: The European Union is no longer explicitly calling for an indefinite suspension of Iran's uranium enrichment, diplomats said here Tuesday, outlining a compromise proposal ahead of a crucial meeting with the Iranians on their nuclear programme. ...
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Third World War has already begun: US expert
ADELAIDE, Nov 2: The world has already entered the next global conflict but it is very different to the world wars of the past, a US expert told a conference here Tuesday. ...
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Al Qaeda names chief for S. Arabia
RIYADH, Nov 2: The Saudi government says it has crushed Al Qaeda in a sweeping security clampdown while the terror network countered that it is still strong in the kingdom amid reports about the group's new regional head, Saud bin Hamoud Al Otaibi. ...
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Buddhist official beheaded in Thailand
BANGKOK, Nov 2: The unrest in Thailand's south took another grisly turn on Tuesday with the beheading of a Buddhist village leader in a revenge killing for last week's deaths of 87 Muslims in the region, police said. ...
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BNP to hold polls: Khaleda
DHAKA, Nov 2: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia said on Tuesday that the next general elections would be held under the BNP government, if the main opposition Awami League declined to participate in the polls under the caretaker government. ...
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US vote is a test for Europe
WASHINGTON: It is the future unity of the "West" that, more than any other basic factor in contemporary global affairs, is most at stake in Tuesday's presidential elections. ...
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Why Palestinians are still backing Arafat
OXFORD: Why has Yasser Arafat not "groomed" a successor (like some petty oriental despot), commentators have demanded to know in recent days, and why he is leaving a chaotic power-vacuum? ...
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