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Sunnis to get seats in govt: Hakim
BAGHDAD, Jan 7: Regardless of the outcome of Jan 30 elections, Iraq's Shia frontrunner Abdel Aziz Hakim said on Friday that the Sunnis would be guaranteed posts in the next government. ... 
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Jail abuse: main accused on trial
FORT HOOD, Jan 7: Specialist Charles Graner of the US Army, the accused ringleader of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal that outraged the world, went on trial on Friday ready to offer a defence he was just following orders. ...
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Four Iraqi areas pose challenge, says Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: President George Bush said on Friday the US military would do its best to give every Iraqi citizen the chance to vote on Jan 30 but acknowledged that guerilla action could disrupt voting in four provinces. ...
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Chirac asks journalists to stay out of Iraq
PARIS, Jan 7: French President Jacques Chirac on Friday warned journalists to stay out of Iraq, two days after a reporter went missing in Baghdad and two weeks after the release of two correspondents held hostage for months. ...
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Probe unlikely to yield 'smoking gun': official: UN's oil-for-food programme
NEW YORK, Jan 7: The head of United Nations scandal plagued oil for food programme investigation commission, Paul Volcker said on Friday that the initial report on the issue will not produce any "smoking gun" ...
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Ex-CIA chief ignored 9/11 threat: paper
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: A still classified internal CIA investigation has determined that its former chief, George Tenet, and his deputy, James Pavitt, failed to heed to the threat posed by terrorism before the Sept 11, 2001 ...
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US Hajis may face strict scrutiny
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 7: Fearing a strict scrutiny after returning from Haj, the two representative groups of American Muslims _ the American Muslim Voice (AMV) and Council ...
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India's untouchables forced out of relief camps
KESHVANPALAYAM, Jan 7: India's untouchables, reeling from the tsunami disaster, are being forced out of relief camps by higher caste survivors and being denied aid supplies, activists charged Friday. ...
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All overseas Indians offered dual nationality
MUMBAI, Jan 7: The Indian government said on Friday it would extend dual citizenship rights to people of Indian origin, fulfilling a long-sought wish of the country's vast diaspora. ...
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Guru flees village after tsunami false alarm
AKKRAPATTAI, Jan 7: A top guru lost his trademark perpetual smile on Friday when rumours of a new tsunami strike sent him fleeing at this worst-hit region where 6,000 died in the waves. ...
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Rising seas threaten islands, cities
OSLO: It sounds insignificant alongside the Indian Ocean tsunami, yet an almost imperceptible annual rise in the world's oceans may pose a huge threat to ports, coasts and islands by 2100. ...
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The incubus of imperialism
Arabic-speaking peoples from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf suffer one common chronic ailment, namely oppressive despotism. ...
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Charity is good but justice is crucial
LONDON: The only word which can capture this strange moment of horror and hope in human history is kairos, the Greek word for time, the closest translation of which is crisis. ...
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Sudan: the new woman has yet to emerge
KHARTOUM: Sudanese women have remained conservative, covered and mostly out of power under the Islamist government which overthrew a short-lived democracy in a bloodless military coup some 15 years ago. ...
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