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Karzai claims Omar not in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, June 25: Afghanistan’s president on Sunday called the Taliban’s fugitive leader a coward, saying Mulla Omar should come out of hiding and face justice.... 
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Sudan suspends all UN work in Darfur
KHARTOUM, June 25: Sudan has suspended the work of a UN mission in its violent Darfur region after accusing the world body of transporting a rebel leader who opposes a recent peace deal, a Sudanese official said on Sunday....
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US drafts plan for troop cuts: NYT: Pentagon briefing on Iraq
NEW YORK, June 25: The top US commander in Iraq has drafted a plan that projects steep reductions in the US military presence there by the end of 2007, The New York Times reported on Saturday....
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Gunmen abduct 16 employees
BAGHDAD, June 25: Gunmen abducted 16 employees of a government institute north of Baghdad on Sunday in the second mass kidnapping in the area in a week, police said....
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Military charges another soldier
BAGHDAD, June 25: The US military charged a soldier with voluntary manslaughter on Sunday for shooting an unarmed Iraqi man in February, the latest of several such cases to come to light in recent weeks....
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WMD red flagsignored: ex-aide
WASHINGTON, June 25: A former CIA officer says he made repeated efforts to alert top agency officials to problems with an Iraqi defector’s claims about the country’s mobile biological weapons labs but he was ignored, the Washington Post reported on Sunday....
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Arcelor accepts Mittal bid
LONDON/LUXEMBOURG, June 25: European steel maker Arcelor accepted an improved takeover bid from Mittal Steel to create a steel giant three times larger than any rival, sources familiar with the matter said on Sunday....
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Kidman weds singer Urban
SYDNEY, June 25: Church bells rang to mark Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman’s own love story when she married country music singer Keith Urban in a traditional Catholic ceremony at a cliff-top chapel on Sunday....
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Hubble: camera stops working
WASHINGTON, June 25: One of the main cameras on the aging Hubble Space Telescope, known for its unparalleled views of distant galaxies and infant stars, has stopped working and engineers are studying the problem, scientists said on Saturday....
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Chirac opens memorial to Muslim war dead
VERDUN (France), June 25: President Jacques Chirac inaugurated a memorial on Sunday to the thousands of Muslims who died during World War One at a ceremony marking the 90th anniversary of the blood-soaked battle of Verdun....
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Defining enrichment suspension key to Iran talks
VIENNA: Any chance of defusing a row over Iran’s nuclear programme may hinge on the definition of a key precondition given to Tehran — suspension of nuclear “enrichment-related activity”....
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Mahathir — Malaysia’s new opposition voice
KUALA LUMPUR: For the first time in a decade, Malaysia has a feisty and effective opposition — in the form of ex-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad....
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Battle lines harden at the heart of old Al Khalil AL KHALIL (West Bank): Nidal Awawi’s narrow house in the heart of Hebron’s old city is surrounded on three sides by Jewish settlers. The neighbours see one another but they do not speak, silent in their enmity....
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Turkish girls’ suicide worries activists
BATMAN (Turkey): Bahar Sogut was 14 when she shot herself in the head with her father’s gun. Her mother and grandmother, who live in a small mud-built house in a village...
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World’s top killing machine
LONDON: The most widely used weapon in conflict zones around the world in the next 20 years will be the Kalashnikov assault rifle because its trade is so poorly regulated, arms control campaigners say....
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Japanese PM wins right to visit war shrine
TOKYO: Opponents of visits by Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi to a nationalist shrine in Tokyo were dealt a legal blow when Japan’s supreme court rejected claims that the visits had caused them psychological distress....
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