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Elections in Iraq on Jan 27
BAGHDAD, Nov 5: Iraq will hold national elections on Jan. 27 to decide its political destiny, Vice President Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Friday. ... 
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European forces in Iraq getting cold feet
Hungary: may pull several hundred soldiers out of Iraq within weeks - and months ahead of schedule - the government in Budapest announced on Thursday as several US allies in eastern and central Europe mulled over their options in Iraq. ...
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Stages in Yasser Arafat's life
YASSER ARAFAT was born the son of a wealthy textile dealer in Cairo, probably in 1929. For decades, he has had a decisive influence on developments in the Middle East in his battle for a Palestinian state. ...
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Arafat in his own words
RAMALLAH, Nov 5: Yasser Arafat, fighting for his life in a Paris hospital, came to symbolise the struggle for a Palestinian state over the course of the last four decades. ...
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Arafat - the father of his nation
In the days when Britain was being forced to give up one colony after another, the phrase "father of the nation" was much in vogue. ...
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Israel imposes lockdown on Palestinian territories
JERUSALEM, Nov 5: Israel imposed a clampdown on the West Bank on Friday and increased security around the Al Aqsa mosque compound ...
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More of the same is bad news in Mideast
AL QUDS: Most reactions in the Middle East to the re-election of US President George W. Bush have ranged from the caustic to the cautious. ...
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Reshuffle may affect Powell, Rice
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5: Several key members of President Bush's cabinet are expected to leave or given new assignments when he reshuffles his team ...
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Blair tells Europe to shed 'state of denial'
LONDON, Nov 5: European leaders must emerge from their "state of denial" and wake up to the reality of George Bush's re-election as US president ...
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Error gave Bush a boost at Ohio station: paper
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: A computer error involving a voting machine cartridge handed President George W. Bush an extra 3,893 votes in one precinct in the key state of Ohio ...
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Bush win clears the way for take over by neo-cons
LONDON: Once it looked like an aberration. Now it is an era. George W Bush's tenure of the White House was born in 2000 to an electoral quirk ...
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State-by-state US Electoral College vote
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: The final tally of the Electoral College vote in Tuesday's US election. The number of Electoral College votes for each state is given in brackets: ...
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Moscow opposes UN debate on Iran
MOSCOW, Nov 5: Russia confirmed on Friday that it opposed Iran's nuclear ambitions coming up for debate at the UN Security Council ...
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Turkey may not make it to EU: Chirac
BRUSSELS, Nov 5: French President Jacques Chirac cautioned on Friday that Turkey might never reach the standards required for European Union membership and the bloc might have to find an alternative way to tie it to Europe. ...
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Lankan govt warned against pact with India
COLOMBO, Nov 5: While President Chandrika Kumaratunga is in Delhi to finalize a defence agreement between Sri Lanka and India ...
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A wolf among Basque separatists
MADRID: Thirty years after he put his life on the line to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA, Mikel Lejarza is convinced that part of the Spanish secret service did not want the terror organization to be defeated. ...
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