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Senior US military officers may be tried for prison abuses
WASHINGTON, Jan 17: The US Army may prosecute senior military officers for abuses at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, lawyers involved in the proceedings told reporters. ... 
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Iraq conflict deepened Muslim solidarity: CIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17: Iraq has joined the list of conflicts that have deepened solidarity among Muslims and helped spread radical Islamic ideology, according to the report by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA think tank. ...
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'Hotel journalism' dictates coverage: Iraq situation
BAGHDAD: "Hotel journalism" are the only words for it. More and more, Western reporters in Baghdad are reporting from their hotels rather than the streets of Iraq's towns and cities. ...
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US to continue public diplomacy, says Bush: Muslim world
WASHINGTON, Jan 17: Reiterating that America honors the Muslim faith, President George Bush has said that the United States would continue to work on a public diplomacy effort to explain American motives and intentions. ...
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US govt urged to check missionaries
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading civil rights organization, has called on the Bush administration to repudiate missionary groups seeking conversion ...
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UN urges wealthy states to double aid
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 17: More than 500 million people can be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich countries double development aid ...
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Serb official gets 18-year term
THE HAGUE, Jan 17: Former Bosnian Serb officer Vidoje Blagojevic on Monday became the second person to be convicted of genocide charges by the UN war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia over the 1995 ...
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Swedish PM hands tough message to Thailand : Return of tourists
PHUKET, Jan 17: Sweden's Prime Minister Goeran Persson said on Monday Thailand should explain why its seismologists failed to warn anyone of last month's killer tsunami if it wants tourists to return. ...
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Aid email spreads computer virus
FRANKFURT, Jan 17: A mass email posing as a plea for aid to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus, Web security firm Sophos said on Monday. ...
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Ex-party chief Zhao Ziyang dies at 85
BEIJING, Jan 17: Zhao Ziyang, a Chinese reformist toppled as Communist Party chief in 1989 for opposing a crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, died in hospital on Monday, his family said. He was 85. ...
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Tsunami toll rises to 175,000
GALLE, Jan 17: Asia's tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 on Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province. ...
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Hasina's son also rises
DHAKA: Following in the footsteps of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's eldest son Tarique Rahman, who is beginning to consolidate his position in the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) ...
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'Aviator' leads UK film award nominations
LONDON, Jan 17: Kate Wins let will be competing with herself at Britain's film awards next month, winning two nominations for best actress, but Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" led the way with 14 nods in a pre-Oscar boost. ...
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Corruption threatens Indian mercy
NEW DELHI: India is a country notorious for middlemen who specialize in siphoning away development funds. And voluntary agencies are struggling to ensure that the deluge of monetary aid pouring in for the survivors ...
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