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Four killed in clashes as Iraqi Guards enter mosque
BAGHDAD, Nov 19: Four Iraqis were killed and nine wounded when Iraqi National Guards backed by US troops stormed a mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers. Three more people died in the capital when a car bomb went off near a police patrol. ... 
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Allies' response angers US: Nato mission
WASHINGTON, Nov 19: The United States is growing increasingly frustrated with the refusal of five Nato members, particularly Germany, to allow their military officers seconded to alliance bases to be deployed in Iraq, a senior US official said on Friday. ...
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Experts dispute US general's claim: Fallujah operation
WASHINGTON: A top US Marine commander asserted Thursday that the invasion of Fallujah had "broken the back" of the Iraqi insurgency, countering assessments by other defence officials and his own intelligence team, who see a more resilient and potent rebel force. ...
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Anti-Palestinian remarks anger US Muslims
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 19: The American Muslim community was outraged at comments made on MSNBC television's "Imus in the Morning" programme that referred to Palestinians as "filthy animals" and suggested that they all be killed. ...
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Sharon eases conditions for fresh talks
TEL AVIV, Nov 19: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has relaxed conditions for restarting peace talks with the Palestinians, the newspaper Haaretz reported on Friday. ...
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US drive for UN cloning ban fails
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19: A US-led campaign to ban cloning of human embryos, including for stem cell research, crumbled on Friday as a divided United Nations prepared to abandon the initiative. ...
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UN employees plan no-trust move against Annan
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19: UN employees are expected to issue an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after he pardoned the body's top oversight official over a series of allegations. ...
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The crimes of 'democratic vision' in Middle East
LONDON: The more George Bush and Tony Blair evangelize about the need to spread democracy, the clearer it becomes that they mean something quite different by the word from the rest of the world. ...
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Time for Europe to believe in itself
LONDON: George Bush's re-election has provoked a flurry of European soul-searching about the transatlantic relationship and the EU's role in the world. What the US president's father called the "vision thing" is always challenging for politicians with short-term agendas dictated by electoral cycles. ...
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Catholics urge EU to set terms for Turkey
BRUSSELS, Nov 19: Roman Catholic bishops from across the European Union questioned on Friday whether Turkey was ready to open EU membership talks and said Brussels should set further human rights conditions for starting negotiations. ...
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Kashmiris sceptical over Delhi package
NEW DELHI, Nov 19: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's economic package for Jammu and Kashmir, to the exclusion of a political vision, has angered Kashmiris opposed to Indian rule, but on Friday even the prime minister's allies there were questioning his outstretched helping hand. ...
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Indian seer berated for not dying
NEW DELHI, Nov 19:A Hindu seer in India's eastern Orissa state was berated by angry crowds when he failed to die after declaring his soul would leave his body at an appointed time, a report said on Friday. ...
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Chileans protest against APEC summit
SANTIAGO, Nov 19: Chilean anti-riot forces cracked down on pockets of stone-throwing youngsters on Friday but masses of people joined a separate peaceful, samba-like protest against the Asia-Pacific summit. ...
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1,000 days in captivity
BOGOTA: Colombia's former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt spent her 1,000th day in captivity on Friday after being abducted by leftist rebels with no hope in sight for release. ...
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