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Detainees to testify at court martial: Excesses at Abu Ghraib
FORT HOOD, Jan 8: Three former Iraqi detainees are to testify at the court martial of the accused leader of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal that started at the Fort Hood US army base on Friday. ... 
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Newsmen contest Chirac's advice
PARIS, Jan 8: French journalists defended their right to report from Iraq on Saturday after President Jacques Chirac urged them to stay away following the disappearance of a journalist working for French newspaper Liberation. ...
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US to shift foreign fighters out of Iraq: daily
NEW YORK, Jan 8: The United States is now holding 325 foreign fighters in Iraq, some of whom could be transferred out of the country for indefinite detention elsewhere, the New York Times reported on Saturday. ...
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Iraq's Shia politicians reach out to Sunnis
BAGHDAD: Politicians from Iraq's Shia majority, wary of the threat of civil war, are eager for Sunnis to join the next government even if the once powerful minority community skips the elections. ...
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2 Spanish journalists kidnapped in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Jan 8: Two Spanish journalists were briefly held by gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, security and diplomatic sources said, stressing that the pair had not been kidnapped as feared initially. ...
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Israeli TV airs footage of N-plant
JERUSALEM, Jan 8: An Israeli television channel has for the first time aired footage of the country's controversial top-secret Dimona nuclear facility. ...
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Afghan judge held over blast at US firm
KABUL, Jan 8: Afghan intelligence officials have arrested a supreme court judge for links to the deadly car-bombing of a US security contractor that killed at least nine people last year, a court official said Saturday. ...
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LTTE chief goes missing: TV
COLOMBO, Jan 8: The LTTE on Saturday reacted sharply to local media reports that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was among the missing following the tsunami catastrophe. ...
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Ferry aground, homes flooded as storms hit UK
LONDON, Jan 8: A ferry ran aground, trucks toppled over, river banks burst, people were evacuated from flooded houses and uprooted trees blocked highways as gale force winds swept Britain and Ireland, emergency services said on Saturday. ...
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Pinochet has false passports, says judge
SANTIAGO, Jan 8: A judge on Friday accused Augusto Pinochet of having false passports, deepening the former Chilean dictator's legal woes three days after he was placed under house arrest in a human rights case. ...
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Powell to exit international diplomacy with Sudan deal
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: US Secretary of State Colin Powell will exit international diplomacy after attending the signing ceremony of a peace agreement in Kenya on Sunday between the Sudanese government and rebel forces, the State Department said. ...
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BD villagers evacuated after fire at gas field
DHAKA, Jan 8: A fire broke out on Friday evening at a gas field in Chhatak, 191kms northeast of Dhaka, causing evacuation from nearby villages. ...
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Abu Mazen: support as wide as it is fickle
Much AS his political ascent gave shape to the Palestinian landscape, Yasser Arafat's death will transform it. The man set to succeed Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, popularly known as Abu Mazen, is in most ways different ...
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New Labour: a party of the living dead
LONDON: As we enter the election year, the mood of the voting public has never been so glum, so reticent and, crucially for New Labour's prospects of a radical third term, so ready to believe the worst of politicians. ...
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