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Bush named 'person of the year'
WASHINGTON, Dec 19: President George W. Bush has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year "for sticking to his guns" and for quashing lingering doubts about his legitimacy with his clear election victory ... 
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Sharon approves prisoners' release
AL QUDS, Dec 19: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday as he looked to bolster the new PLO chairman Mahmud Abbas and cement his own hold on power ...
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Egypt, Israel deepen collaboration
Ever since working together to ensure that Yasser Arafat was buried without provoking major unrest amongst the Palestinians, Egypt and Israel have been deepening their collaboration in preparing to suppress resistance within the Occupied Territories. ...
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Sikhs storm theatre
LONDON, Dec 19: Hundreds of Sikhs tried to storm a theatre in the central English city of Birmingham, halting a play they say mocks their religion and slightly injuring five police officers in the melee, police said. ...
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Democracy in the dock in Iraq
LONDON: Chemical Ali appeared in court on Saturday. Ali Hassan al-Majid, who oversaw the gassing of 5,000 Kurds in a single day at Halabja, is appearing before an investigative judge in Baghdad ...
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Mideast hails Turkish success on EU front
CAIRO, Dec 19: The European Union's decision to give Turkey a date for membership talks drew a warm welcome on Sunday from Middle Eastern states keen to see the wealthy European club expand to their doorstep. ...
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Turkmen polls get wary response
ASHGABAT: Turkmenistan's parliamentary elections on Sunday got a wary response from locals and were denounced by exiled opponents of hardline President Saparmurat Niyazov. ...
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Erdogan takes Turkey to EU door
ANKARA: After four decades of Turkish waiting, it is a devout Muslim with Islamist roots who has clinched the country's dream of European Union entry talks. ...
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Limited war can lead to N-conflict, says study
WASHINGTON, Dec 19: No conventional war between India and Pakistan will remain limited for long and will gradually lead to a full-scale war and ultimately to a nuclear conflict, warns a study by a Pakistani defence official. ...
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Over 8,000 monitors for Ukraine vote
KIEV, Dec 19: A total of 8,295 people from more than a dozen foreign countries or international institutions have so far been registered to monitor Ukraine's repeat presidential election on December 26 ...
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Ten soldiers die in Nepal violence
KATHMANDU, Dec 19: Ten soldiers died in fresh clashes in Nepal on Sunday bringing the number of dead to at least 141 in one of the kingdom's most violent weeks in the past six months, an army source said. ...
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'Controlled extinction' of lions in India
NEW DELHI: Indian scientists have carried out vasectomies on scores of cross-bred lions, the results of experiments to create new sub-species, to let them die out in a "controlled extinction". ...
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