Explosion Kills at Least 7 in Baghdad
A suicide car bomber struck an Ashoura commemoration in western Baghdad Saturday, killing at least seven people and wounding ten more, police and medical officials said, amid ...
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Russia Maintains Cooperation with Tehran Despite US and Israel
"Soft" revolutions backed by the West in the former Soviet republics reportedly push the Moscow administration to make closer cooperation with Syria and Iran.
Russia-Iran nuclear projects to continue Financial Times
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Former presidents visit tsunami countries
Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush snr have arrived in Thailand to begin a tour of countries hit by the tsunami in December.
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Intelligence Nominee Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny on Human Rights
Human rights advocates repeated longstanding criticisms on Friday of John D. Negroponte, President Bush's nominee as director of national intelligence.
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Pressure on Bush to address global warming
The latest study to suggest that global warming is a real phenomenon, and one caused by human action, adds further weight to a body of scientific evidence that has been accumulating steadily ...
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Bush: Mentioning Attack on Iran does not Translate to Reality
US President George W. Bush said talking about possible US attacks on Iranian nuclear plants does not make it a reality. Bush expressed in a press conference in Washington: "Iran ...
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Strong Quake Causes Panic in Indonesia's East
A strong earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale rocked eastern Indonesia's Sulawesi region early on Saturday, sparking panic in seaside communities as residents ...
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Thousands protest against new leader in Togo
Thousands of Togolese, some banging drums and blowing whistles, marched through the capital Lome on Saturday in protest at the way the army installed a son of the late president as leader on his father's death two weeks ago.
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In China, Japan, discord growing
Hardly a month goes by without new irritants in relations between Japan and China. The public mood in each country is souring toward the other, prompting some experts to wonder whether ...
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Over 100 Oppn workers arrested in Nepal
Over a hundred activists of opposition parties in Nepal have been arrested after they staged anti-government demonstrations across the country demanding an end to the authoritarian regime of King Gyanendra.
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US forces in Afghanistan engaged in widespread abuse: report:
[World News]: London, Feb 18 : US forces in Afghanistan have been accused of engaging in "widespread Abu Ghraib-style abuse", taking "trophy photographs" of detainees and carrying out sexual humiliation, a leading London daily claimed today.
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Terrorists may be planning to attack foreign aid workers in Aceh: Australian FM
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Saturday said the government has received new information suggesting terrorists may be planning to attack foreign aid workers ...
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Shiite Muslim holiday marred by four suicide bombings
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Four suicide bombers blew themselves up Saturday, killing at least five people, in the latest wave of violence to mar the most important holiday in the Shiite Muslim calendar.
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Putin sees no threat in Iran's nuclear goals
Moscow -- President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia would continue to help Iran develop nuclear power and that he was convinced the country did not intend to pursue a nuclear arms program.
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Deaths by AIDS in South Africa rise by a staggering 57 percent
In an implicit but devastating account of the havoc AIDS is causing here, South Africa's government reported yesterday that annual deaths increased 57 percent ...
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Egypt "doing more to stop arms smuggling"
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says Egypt is doing more than before to stop weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip. smuggling would allow Israel also to withdraw from a strip of land in southern Gaza.
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61 miners dead, scores sick as pneumonic plague grips Congo
The outbreak of a plague, which has been building since December around a mine near Zobia, 300 kms north of Kisangani, the capital of the vast Oriental province, has finally taken its toll leaving 61 miners dead, around 400 sick and others fleeing the ...
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UN chief's spokesman quits job
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman Fred Eckhard has resigned, as speculation mounts over the dismissal of another top UN official.
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BEIJING (AP) China's official Xinhua News Agency is citing an unnamed North Korean foreign ministry spokesman as saying Pyongyang is not ready to return to six-party nuclear disarmament talks and does not want direct talks with the United States.

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Audit Finds Diocese Complying With Child Protection Programs
PORTLAND, Maine -- Maine's Roman Catholic diocese received 22 claims of sexual abuse by priests during the last year. Those claims were among nearly 1,100 such allegations reported nationwide.
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Boston Herald Is Ordered to Pay Judge $2 Million for Libel
A jury ordered The Boston Herald on Friday to pay $2.09 million to a Superior Court judge, ruling that it libeled him in articles that accused him of making disparaging comments about crime victims.
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Suspect in Los Angeles Train Wreck Wasn't Suicidal, Police Say
The authorities now say that the man who parked his truck on a rail line last month intended to cause the deadly train wreck that resulted and was not suicidal, as they had initially surmised.
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Wholesale Prices Increase 0.3%
Wholesale prices rose 0.3% last month, but the so-called core rate, which excludes food and energy, jumped by the largest amount in more than six years.
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US Newspaper Chains Pay Up for Web Companies
Newspaper publishers, often seen as stodgy and slow-growing, will pay whatever it takes to grab a bigger piece of the fast-growing online advertising market -- if two recent deals are any indication.
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On Bus, Bicycle and Foot, Suicide Bombers Aim at a Shiite Holy Day
Five suicide bombers, including one on a bicycle, hurled themselves into crowds and set off explosives on Saturday, killing as many as 30 people and wounding 150 ...
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Tsunami Survivors Beg Clinton and Bush for Help
Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush flew into the heart of Asia's tsunami disaster area on Sunday and met tent-dwelling survivors who pleaded for help to rebuild their lives.
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59 confirmed dead in sunken ferry accident in Bangladesh
The death toll of Saturday night's ferry accident rose to 59 so far, as more bodies were recovered from the capsized ship. A source from the Bangladesh Inland Water Transportation ...
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Israeli Cabinet Backs Settlement Withdrawal
Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday Feb. 20, 2005.
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China works on N Korea
CHINA'S chances of curbing the latest crisis of North Korean nuclear brinkmanship might be clarified this week by whether or not its top envoy meets the regime's isolated leader Kim Jong-il.
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Iraqis count cost after weekend of mayhem
With the Shi'a majority poised to take control of the country for the first time in modern Iraqi history, fearful friends and relatives spent Sunday burying some of the nearly 100 ...
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Syria slams US, Israel
A SYRIAN government daily accused Washington and Israel today of leading a "campaign of intimidation" against Damascus and its backers in Beirut since the murder of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri.
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ECOWAS Sanctions Togo in Response to Country's Political Situation
The West African regional group ECOWAS has imposed sanctions on Togo in response to the country's political situation. The sanctions announced Saturday suspended Togo from the bloc, placed a travel ...
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Sinn Fein expenses cut over bank raid
THE British Government is to move this week to cut off Sinn Fein's parliamentary expenses for a year to punish the party for the alleged role played by its leadership in sanctioning Britain's biggest bank robbery.
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Hounded hunters keep Blair at bay
AT the end of their first day of freedom from fear, England and Wales' foxes still somehow found themselves 116 fewer in number.
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82 killed in Dhaka boat mishap
At-least 82 people were killed and over 110 were missing when a ferry jam-packed with holiday revellers capsized in Bangladesh after getting struck in an unexpected cyclone near Dhaka.
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Spain Woke Up in Referendum for European Constitution
Madrid, Feb 20 (Prensa Latina) Spain woke up Sunday in referendum with 23,646 colleges opened in the whole country for 34.5 million voters, with their right to decide if the nation takes the text of a Constitution Spain should share with the rest of the ...
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IAEA Chief Ready to Mediate N. Korean Nuke Dispute
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Director Mohamed ElBaradei has hinted that he might mediate to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.
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Socialists set for poll win
THE opposition Socialist Party was expected to win government in Portugal last night as voters went to the polls in an early general election.
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Italians demand reporter's release
Tens of thousands of Italians marched silently through Rome yesterday to demand the release of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq, days after she appeared on a video pleading for her life.
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For rain-forest defenders, slain nun is martyr
The spot where American nun Dorothy Stang died on a red mud road in dense green jungle marks ground zero of a battle over how the Amazon, the world's largest ...
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Ex-ministers caught after jailbreak
A GROUP of armed men stormed a prison in the capital of strife-torn Haiti and freed two former ministers of ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide's regime being held there, as hundreds of other prisoners escaped.
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Pope John Paul II Delivers Weekly Address From Vatican
Pope John Paul II has delivered his weekly address from his window at the Vatican, making his second public appearance since he was released from the hospital earlier this month.
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