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Iraqi govt to run most of country by year end: PM: Foreign troops to go by 2010: Blair
BAGHDAD, May 22: The new Iraqi prime minister said on Monday his forces could be in charge in most of Iraq by December and officials with visiting British Prime Minister Tony... 
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Judge ejects Saddam lawyer
BAGHDAD, May 22: Iraqi guards at Saddam Hussein’s trial manhandled a defence lawyer from the court on Monday before witnesses, including one of the former president’s half-brothers, gave testimony for some of his co-defendants....
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Saarc states to simplify visa procedure
DHAKA, May 22: The tourism ministers of South Asian nations have decided to set up immigration desks for Saarc citizens at all international airports in the region....
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S. Arabia, Russia favour diplomacy: Iran standoff
RIYADH, May 22: Saudi Arabia and Russia have stressed the need for adopting diplomatic means to resolve the Iran-West standoff. The two sides have also agreed to set up a joint...
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Bush’s religious views alienating Muslims: Albright
LONDON, May 22: President George Bush has alienated Muslims around the world by using absolutist Christian rhetoric to discuss foreign policy issues, former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright says....
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Iranians will resist US action, says study
WASHINGTON, May 22: US forces are ‘spread too thin’ to take a military action against Iran, says a congressional report, which also warns that most Iranian would resist foreign forces entering their country....
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Ex-Afghan governor found dead
KANDAHAR, May 22: Afghan police on Monday found the body of a former provincial governor who was kidnapped a day earlier with an ex-police chief, police said....
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Fierce gunbattle near Palestinian parliament
GAZA CITY, May 22: One Jordanian was killed and seven Palestinians wounded as rising tensions between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions erupted into heavy fighting near the parliament in Gaza on Monday....
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Stone to make film on bid to oust Chavez
CARACAS, May 22: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone was planning to film a movie about the 2002 coup in Venezuela that briefly ousted the former army officer....
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Chinese opposed to nuclear Iran: Merkel
BEIJING, May 22: Germany and China agree that Iran should not be allowed to build nuclear weapons, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday after meeting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao....
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WHO chief dies
GENEVA, May 22: World Health Organisation chief Lee Jong-wook of South Korea died on Monday two days after suffering a blood clot on the brain, the United Nations agency said....
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US to establish anti-missile site in Europe
NEW YORK, May 22: The Bush administration is moving to establish a new anti-missile site in Europe that would be designed to stop attacks by Iran against the United States and its European allies, the New York Times said on Monday....
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Afghan women fight for rights
LASHKAR GAH: When Raazia Baloch, a mother of four with a thousand-watt smile, was elected to Helmand’s provincial assembly last October, local authorities congratulated her with a Kalashnikov....
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Palestine on the brink of civil war
GAZA: Rival militias guarding street corners, sporadic firefights and murky assassination attempts already make plain Gaza’s burgeoning internal strife. The question is not so much whether Hamas Islamists and Palestinian President...
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Iraqis lack faith in leaders
BAGHDAD: There was a time when the sitting room of the storied Alwiya Social Club was perpetually packed and rowdy with voices. But that was before fear locked many Iraqis into their homes....
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Beslan militant ‘lived to kill again’
MOSCOW: A Muslim militant who was supposedly killed during the carnage that ended the Beslan school siege has been “resurrected” by Russian investigators as a suspect in the assassination of a high-ranking government official....
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Europe could use Turkey to engage with Islam
LONDON: At the end of this week there will be a ceremony in the south-eastern Turkish port of Ceyhan to mark the first tanker to be loaded with the oil that...
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How Einstein struggled with his grand theory — and the maths
TO MANY he is the greatest scientist who ever lived, but a unique collection of Albert Einstein’s letters and papers has revealed a history of struggle and failure made worse by an apparently shaky grasp of maths....
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