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Life imprisonment without trial condemned
WASHINGTON, Jan 2: US lawmakers urged their government on Sunday to rescind a reported plan to keep dangerous terror suspects in prison without trial for the rest of their lives. ... 
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Israel's naval drill with US, Turkey
JERUSALEM, Jan 2: Israel is to host an annual joint search and rescue exercise with the Turkish and the United States navies off its Mediterranean coast in the middle of the month, officials said Sunday. ...
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Sharon plans to introduce Gaza pullout vote
TEL AVIV, Jan 2: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his cabinet on Sunday that a vote on removing Gaza settlements would be brought forward to January to give settlers more notice of evacuation, officials said. ...
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Armitage asks Syria to stem 'terrorism'
DAMASCUS, Jan 2: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage put pressure on Syria to do more to stop foreign fighters infiltrating Iraq and called for Lebanese sovereignty to be respected, following talks in Damascus on Sunday. ...
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Myanmar to free 5,500 prisoners
YANGON, Jan 2: Myanmar's military government said on Sunday it was releasing 5,588 prisoners ahead of the 57th anniversary of independence on January 4, the fourth mass release in six weeks. ...
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'Sudan to withdraw within 30 months'
KHARTOUM, Jan 2: The Sudanese military is to complete the withdrawal of its forces from the south within 30 months of signing a peace deal ending a 21-year conflict with rebels, an independent daily reported on Sunday. ...
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Sudan, rebels inch towards peace
NAIVASHA: Sudan ended 2004 on a high note, with government and rebel representatives signing a permanent cease fire and an accord that maps out the implementation of several peace protocols already concluded. ...
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Free trade is as vital as aid
LONDON: I do not have the words to describe the feelings we all shared as we watched the dreadful pictures of the catastrophe that hit so many people in so many countries last week. ...
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Harness this universal empathy
LONDON: The living are always more shocking than the dead. A seven-year-old Swedish boy tramps the streets of Phuket, searching for his parents and two brothers. A mother from the Andaman Islands weeps as she feeds her baby. ...
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New Delhi opts for tsunami diplomacy
NEW DELHI: Within hours of the tsunami, India geared up for its biggest-ever relief operation, but not just with its own devastated coasts in its sights. ...
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Turkey launches new tender
ANKARA: Miliions of Turks will lose their status as billionnaires on as the world's biggest banknote, the 20m-lira bill (worth just under $16), is formally declared dead. ...
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Eritrea on alert for big power bias
ASMARA: In few countries does the Cold War cast a longer shadow than in Eritrea, deprived of nationhood by superpower rivalry at the dawn of independent Africa. ...
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