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Somalia distances itself from Osama
MOGADISHU, July 2: Somalia’s powerful religious movement on Sunday distanced itself from Osama Bin Laden’s view that any deployment of foreign troops to the Horn of Africa country would be part of a crusade to crush Islamic rule.... 
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Congress can pass new law for prisoners’ trial: senators
WASHINGTON, July 2: The US Congress is ready to craft legislation to prosecute Guantanamo war-on-terror prisoners after the government’s plan for military trials was rejected by the Supreme Court, top senators said on Sunday....
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US must apologise for slavery: Chavez
BANJUL, July 2: Europe and the United States should apologise to Africa for the cruelties of slavery, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday, calling on African states to resist modern day US colonialism....
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‘Threat posed by terrorists has not diminished’: Warning by British MPs
LONDON, July 2: Al Qaeda may well pose an increasingly brutal threat to Britain, and the worsening security situation in Iraq is providing extremists with a crucial training ground, British MPs warned on Sunday....
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Report says Pentagon opposes Iran bombing
WASHINGTON, July 2: Top Pentagon officers have told the Bush administration that bombing Iranian nuclear facilities would probably fail to destroy that country’s nuclear programme, the New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday....
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Mexico in knife-edge presidential election
MEXICO CITY, July 2: Mexicans voted for a new president on Sunday, torn between joining a resurgent left-wing camp in Latin America or sticking to pro-business policies and a close alliance with the United States....
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EADS replaces top official
PARIS, July 2: Airbus parent EADS replaced troubled co-chief executive Noel Forgeard with French railways chief Louis Gallois on Sunday, in an effort to resolve a crisis over delays to the A380 superjumbo....
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New Jersey state govt shut down
NEW YORK, July 2: The Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine, signed an executive order on Saturday to effectively shut down the state’s government for the first time in history as...
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Expatriates vote in tight race
NUEVO LAREDO (Mexico), July 2: Thousands of expatriate Mexicans streamed south of the US border on Sunday to vote in their homeland in a tight race with high stakes for crime-weary border residents....
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Nasa postpones launch of shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 2: Nasa postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery on Sunday for the second day in a row because of thunderstorms near the Florida launch site....
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Zarqawi buried in Iraq, says official
BAGHDAD, July 2: Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq killed in a US air strike, has been buried in a secret grave in Iraq, Iraq’s national security adviser said on Sunday....
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Hamas threatens attacks
GAZA, July 2: Hamas’s armed wing threatened on Sunday to attack Israeli schools, institutions and power plants if Israel, pursuing a military campaign to free a soldier, continued its air strikes against infrastructure in Gaza....
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Indonesians protest Gaza actions
JAKARTA, July 2: Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied in front of the heavily fortified US embassy here on Sunday, condemning Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip....
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Argentina ups the ante in new fight over Falklands
BUENOS AIRES: There are three perennial passions in Argentina: football, the tango and the country’s claim to Britain’s South Atlantic outpost, the Falkland Islands. Even the build-up to Argentina’s World Cup...
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Blood-stained walls, tears in aftermath of Iraq bombing
BAGHDAD: “This is where Umm Kadhim and her son had their ice stall and here Abu Aqeel and his son sold eggs,” a shell-shocked Hussein Mohammed said among the ruins of the Al-Ula (First) market....
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History fuels Iran’s vision for Iraq
TEHRAN: Vast war cemeteries on the outskirts of Tehran bear silent witness to Iran’s complex relationship with neighbouring Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians died in the 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein’s regime....
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No big war for now in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Someone is killed almost every day in the crossfire of Sri Lanka’s undeclared war with Tamil Tiger rebels, but the island is likely to be tormented by low-intensity attrition rather than all-out war — for now....
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Fear of UK backlash on Afghan war
KABUL: Senior British military officers are concerned that continuing fierce fighting in Afghanistan will lead to a drastic drop in domestic public support, which could jeopardise the army’s recent deployment there....
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