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Hamas not to join probe into Jordan plot
AMMAN, May 7: The Hamas-led Palestinian government has refused to join a team heading to Amman this week to look into charges Hamas militants smuggled arms into Jordan and were close to staging attacks, officials said on Sunday.... 
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Iran threatens to pull out of NPT
TEHRAN, May 7: The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty if the...
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Kurdish MPs vote to unify provincial govt
ARBIL, May 7: Kurdish lawmakers on Sunday voted for a single administration to run their autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, ending the previous system of two separate local governments....
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Cheney again criticises Russia
SHANNON (Ireland), May 7: US Vice-President Dick Cheney took Russia to task again on Sunday as he ended a tour of ex-communist states making the transition to democracy....
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North Korea refuses to give in on N-issue
TOKYO, May 7: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il Has refused to return to six-party talks on ending his country’s nuclear arms programmes when he held talks with a senior Chinese official late last month, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday....
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Taliban kill judge
KANDAHAR, May 7: Taliban gunmen on motorcycles killed an Afghan judge as he left a mosque after saying prayers in Farah province, the provincial governor said....
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Hillary: too much of a Democrat?
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear ‘electable’....
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For humanity’s sake, see United 93
LONDON: Close your eyes and remember how 9/11 looked. See the arc of the first plane cruising towards immolation and the orange fireball as the second airliner hit the World Trade Centre....
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CIA at rock bottom
WASHINGTON: CIA employees were sitting at their computers on Friday afternoon when they saw a message advising them to toggle to the agency’s in-house television channel....
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Say nothing but good of Galbraith
LONDON: Though a devoted listener to Radio Four, I missed out on the Today programme over the Bank Holiday weekend. On return to London, I was struck by the number of...
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Flowers grow into dollar crop for Ethiopia
NAZRET (Ethiopia): Inside Jobera Flowers’ vast greenhouses, there are rows of rose buds ready for harvest and destined to brighten rooms in faraway Europe...
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