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14 killed as Taliban ambush convoy
KANDAHAR, March 24: Taliban fighters attacked police posts in southern and south-eastern Afghanistan overnight, sparking battles that left 16 rebels and five policemen dead, police said on Saturday.... 
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Iraq violence leaves 50 dead
BAGHDAD, March 24: Suicide attacks waged by a lorry driver posing as a goods merchant and a bomber in a sweet shop killed dozens of Iraqis on Saturday underscoring the vicious nature of a changing insurgency....
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Rice meets Arab leaders in Egypt
ASWAN (Egypt), March 24: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Middle East allies on Saturday to reinvigorate a long-dormant Arab plan for peace with Israel that she hopes may hold the key to keeping alive fractured Israeli-Palestinian negotiations....
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No change in peace plan, says AL chief
CAIRO, March 24: Arab states have no intention of modifying an Arab initiative for peace to make it more palatable to Israel when they convene at a summit in Saudi Arabia...
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US troops may pull out in 18 months: Iraqi VP
TOKYO: Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Saturday US-led coalition forces should be able to withdraw from his country in a year and half at the latest, when Iraqi troops should be ready to handle security on their own....
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Ahmadinejad cancels visit to UN
UNITED NATIONS, March 24: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cancelled his visit to New York to address the UN Security Council because of delays in granting visas to his entourage, Tehran’s UN ambassador said on Friday....
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US A-G was ‘present’ at meeting on sackings
WASHINGTON, March 24: Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales attended a meeting last November that discussed the imminent enacting of a plan to fire US federal prosecutors, the Justice Department said in documents released on Friday....
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Call for ambitious treaty marks EU’s 50th anniversary
BERLIN, March 24: Europe’s longest-serving leader urged the European Union to finalise an ambitious reform treaty by the end of the year as leaders from 27 member states gathered in Berlin on Saturday to celebrate the bloc’s 50th anniversary....
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Rachel Smith crowned Miss USA
LOS ANGELES, March 24: Rachel Smith, a journalism graduate from Tennessee, was crowned Miss USA, edging out 50 other aspiring beauty queens in a contest to replace a titleholder whose reign was nearly marred by a scandal....
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Lanka fighting
COLOMBO, March 24: Sri Lankan troops fought artillery duels and close-quarter battles with Tamil Tiger rebels in the island’s northwest on Saturday, as each side claimed to have killed dozens of foes over three days....
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China-Russia factor forces dilution of Iran resolution
UNITED NATIONS: The draft resolution on Iran sanctions tabled at the United Nations this week, has been politically diluted to meet the demands of two veto-wielding permanent members -- Russia and China -- and protect their strong economic and military interests....
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Afghan law overlooks warlords’ past abuses
KABUL: A new law granting amnesty and legal protection from prosecution to Afghan commanders accused of committing war atrocities has shifted the burden of proof for the two and a half decades of grave abuses to the Afghan public....
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Soviet nuclear legacy still haunts Kazakhstan
SARZHAL (Kazakhstan): Aiguerim Chynbergen was born four years after the last nuclear tests in then-Soviet Kazakhstan, but the radioactive fallout blamed for crippling her still poisons her village....
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TB: world’s number two killer
UNITED NATIONS: Although most people in the developed world view tuberculosis (TB) as a disease of the past, this curable ailment still kills a human being every 20 seconds....
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Celebrities can do politics pretty well
LONDON: At this year’s Oscars, at centre stage sat former Vice President Al Gore. Before An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about his quest to raise awareness about climate change, Gore’s pop-cultural...
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French candidate relying on national anthem
LONDON: If only La Marseillaise contained some passing reference to the Almighty, you might get all French socialists singing from the same sheet music, and God Save the Queen might be their song....
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US air force, army clash over drones
WASHINGTON: The US Army took aim on Friday at an Air Force drive to take control of its growing fleet of drones flying 31,070 metres and higher above battlegrounds....
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Nicole diaries fetch $500,000
NEW YORK: Two diaries written by Anna Nicole Smith have sold on online auction site eBay for over $500,000 to a German man planning to use them as the basis of a book, according to the memorabilia house that sold them....
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9 officials accused in Tillman case
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s inspector-general will blame nine US Army officers, including up to four generals, for missteps after the April 2004 death in Afghanistan by friendly fire of former NFL star Pat Tillman, the “CBS Evening News” reported on Friday....
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Protest against missile shield
WARSAW: Scores of Poles protested on Saturday against a proposal to deploy a US missile shield in central Europe and against Polish military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan....
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