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Five judges picked for Saddam trial
BAGHDAD, Oct 2: Five judges have been chosen for the much-anticipated trial this month of toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein over the massacre of Shia villagers in 1982, a source close to the court said on Sunday.... 
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Afghanistan president arrives in France
 PARIS, Oct 2: Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai arrived in France on Sunday to meet President Jacques Chirac and other top officials for talks on the fight against terrorism and Afghanistan’s new parliament....
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Blasts hurt Muslim cause: Mahathir
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2: Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Sunday the bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali were not helping the Muslim cause....
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Sept 11 atttacks lead to better understanding of Islam in US
WASHINGTON, Oct 2: There is a greater understanding and acceptance of Islam in the American society after 9/11, though discrimination against Muslims also has increased, says a recent survey....
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Something stinks in America
WASHINGTON: The most important political event last week for Britain did not take place at the Labour party conference in Brighton, but in Travis County, Texas....
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Huge anti-EU rally held in Turkey
ANKARA, Oct 2: Tens of thousands of Turkish nationalists, chanting slogans and waving flags, took to the streets of Ankara on Sunday to protest against the country’s possible entry into the...
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Is this the death of freedom?
LONDON: Today is the fifth birthday of the Human Rights Act, but there is little to celebrate. As one of those who once worked with Labour to craft a rights charter...
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Abiding crisis impedes rule in Philippines
MANILA: For the last week, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s usually soft-spoken national security adviser has been detained under guard in a Manila hospital on contempt charges filed by the Philippine Senate....
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Farmers bring crop of new ideas to Nigeria
TSONGA (Nigeria): The foreigners who came thousands of miles to the grasslands of western Nigeria seemed like a spectacular circus act to the area’s subsistence farmers....
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Schroeder’s criticism of media bias dismissed
BERLIN: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, breathing fire after staging the most remarkable election comeback in German history, wasted no time unleashing his wrath on the country’s media....
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Brazil weighs gun ban
RIO DE JANEIRO: As she walked home through the twisting, narrow passageways that honeycomb the large hillside slum of Rocinha, Denise do Espirito Santo spotted a young man following her....
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17 killed in Burundi
BUJUMBURA, Oct 2: Burundian soldiers killed 17 fighters from the country’s only remaining rebel group in the heaviest fighting to take place there since a new president took office in August, the army said on Sunday....
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US official found dead
BOGOTA, Oct 2: A US embassy official was found fatally shot in the northeastern Colombian city of Bucaramanga, according to diplomatic sources and news reports on Sunday....
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13 die in India bus accident
BANGALORE, Oct 2: At least 13 passengers were killed and 23 injured on Sunday when a driver lost control of a bus and crashed into a tree in southern India, police said.—AFP...
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