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Evidence in abuse cases suppressed: US senator's complaint to Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: A US senator has urged Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to promptly open a probe into allegations that evidence of prisoner abuse by the US military has been suppressed ... 
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Nominee for US cabinet refuses to take up job
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: President Bush's choice to head the US Department of Homeland Security, Bernard Kerik, has unexpectedly withdrawn his name from consideration. ...
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Yushchenko was poisoned: doctors
VIENNA, Dec 11: The man who hopes to become Ukraine's next president was the victim of poisoning by dioxin - a toxic chemical that can easily be administered in soup containing cream, Austrian doctors said on Saturday. ...
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Tests in Iran raise suspicions: officials
VIENNA, Dec 11: High-energy neutron experiments in Iran that could be either civilian-oriented or related to making an atomic bomb have risen Suspicions since they are allegedly conducted under military supervision ...
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Kuwait sets bitterness aside to welcome PLO chief
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 11: Kuwait said on Saturday it has overcome its anger at the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's perceived backing of the 1990 Iraqi invasion, on the eve of a landmark visit by PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas. ...
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Afghan minister seeks closure of 2,000 NGOs
KABUL, Dec 11: An Afghan minister said on Saturday he wanted to shut down nearly 2,000 non-government organizations (NGOs) because they flout the rules and laws of the country. ...
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Annan to meet Powell, Rice next week
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will meet US Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice next week to talk about Iraq, UN officials said on Friday. ...
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Pro-China party wins elections in Taiwan
TAIPEI, Dec 11: Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian's party suffered a surprise defeat on Saturday in elections likely to be welcomed in Beijing as a step back from what it sees as dangerous moves towards independence from China. ...
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APHC team in Nepal for conference
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: A two-member delegation of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, led by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, has arrived in Kathmandu after its departure was cleared by the Indian government. ...
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Bangladesh parties form 900-km human chain
DHAKA, Dec 11: Up to 100 people were injured in clashes in Bangladesh as millions of opposition activists formed a 900-km "human chain" to demonstrate no confidence in the government on Saturday. ...
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Dalits want a share of globalization pie
NEW DELHI: India's Dalit groups may live in the world's largest democracy, but their lives are shaped by a system of sanctified apartheid that threatens to marginalize them further as the country enters the era of globalization. ...
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Russia's language of terror in Chechnya
Ten years ago, the Russian Federation launched its first war with Chechnya, under the rubric of "restoring constitutional order" to the Chechen Republic. After a three-year interlude, from 1996 to 1999, Russia invaded again. ...
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Let's stop sleepwalking through history
SCIENTISTS tell us that global warming is an omnipresent reality, that in this century it will change the lives of all of us and alter our relationship to the physical world. ...
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How China has taken to Christmas
"HAVE YOU started Christmas shopping?" My friends have been asking me this since early November, when my head was still filled with Zhong Qiu Jie, the Chinese mid-autumn festival. Six weeks until God's birthday is a long way to go,I thought. ...
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