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Palestinian police station attacked
NABLUS, March 4: Palestinian militants fired on a Palestinian police station on Friday in an incident that underscored difficulties new President Mahmoud Abbas faces in trying to impose law and order in the West Bank and Gaza. ... 
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Sharon should be in prison: London mayor terms Israeli policies racist
LONDON: Racism is a uniquely reactionary ideology, used to justify the greatest crimes in history - the slave trade, the extermination of all original inhabitants of the Caribbean ...
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Bush asks Syria to quit Lebanon by May: Assad likely to announce partial pullout today
WESTFIELD, March 4: President George Bush on Friday demanded Syria's complete withdrawal from Lebanon by May. "When we say withdraw we mean complete withdrawal - no half-hearted measures," the US president said ...
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Moot hails Pakistan's efforts against gender bias
UNITED NATIONS, March 4. The Pakistani delegation received thunderous applause at the United Nations women's conference when its leader informed the delegates of a bill stipulating that a crime committed ...
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Italian reporter released in Iraq
ROME, March 4: Italian reporter Giuliana Sgrena has been released in Iraq after being held hostage for a Month, the Italian government said on Friday. ...
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Iran resisting EU nuclear deal
TEHRAN, March 4: Top Iranian officials gave fresh signals on Friday that Tehran will reject a demand from Britain, France and Germany that it completely halt sensitive nuclear activities in return for a package of incentives. ...
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Hitler tested atomic device: historian
BERLIN, March 4: Nazi Germany was not only trying to develop nuclear weapons but actually tested atomic devices near the end of World War Two, the publisher of a yet to be released book by a German historian says. ...
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The shadow of another Iraq
DAMASCUS: A velvet revolution, Ukrainian style, that will set an example for the whole Middle East? That is how Lebanon's so far peaceful "democratic uprising" likes to see itself. Certainly, something new and profound is under way. ...
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N. Korea delays assembly session
SEOUL, March 4: North Korea has postponed a regular session of its parliament, the official news agency said on Friday, in an unprecedented move that puzzled officials and analysts who follow the reclusive communist state. ...
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Syria fails to win Saudi support
RIYADH: Instead of the support he sought during his unscheduled visit first to Qatar and then to Saudi Arabia, what Syrian President Bashar al Asad has received is a stark message from Riyadh to get out of Lebanon immediately. ...
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Lok Sabha in chaos over Jharkhand CM issue
NEW DELHI, March 4: India's parliament broke up in chaos for a third day on Friday following the controversial appointment of a government allied to the ruling Congress party in the tiny eastern state of Jharkhand. ...
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Minister's wife sentenced to death in Lanka
COLOMBO, March 4: Naththandige Mary Monica Fernando, wife of the minister of Christian and parliamentary affairs, Milroy Fernando, was awarded death sentence on Wednesday for committing murder. ...
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