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UNSC meets as deal nears on Iraq
Draft calls for end of force mandate in 2005: Powell
The UN Security Council was called to a special meeting yesterday as talks on a US-British resolution outlining the June 30 handover of power in Iraq inched closer to a deal.
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Assam braces for annual flooding
Thousands of tribals in India's northeastern Assam state were racing yesterday to repair boats and build bamboo rafts as fears rose that the rain-swollen Brahmaputra River would spill its banks.
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Americans call for end to Iraq occupation
Hundreds of anti-war protesters rallied from the White House to the West Coast on Saturday, calling for an end to the US-led occupation of Iraq and the immediate withdrawal of American troops.
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Bush, Chirac hail lasting Transatlantic ties
World leaders remember D-Day, look to the future
The alliance forged between the United States and Europe during World War II remains strong and necessary, President Bush told an event commemorating the 1944 D-Day landings Sunday.
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Malaysia, Singaporean Ministers Say
ME conflict fuelling terror in SE Asia
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generating widespread outrage among Muslims in Southeast Asia and hampering the region's efforts to subdue Islamic terrorism, the defence ministers of Malaysia andSingapore
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US and world mourn Reagan's death
From all corners of the planet, the eulogies streamed in a torrent of words for the president known as the Great Communicator, the man who aimed his message at regular people and whose enemies and friends
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BJP revamps top brass
Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley appointed general secretaries
Revamping the party after the electoral debacle, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu yesterday appointed former Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Arun Jaitley as general secretaries while giving more representation
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Govt committed to repeal of Pota, says Pranab
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre is committed to the repeal of Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) which was very much part of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the ruling
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More prisoners freed from Abu Ghraib
Nine busloads of Iraqi prisoners were released from the notorious Abu Ghraib jail yesterday as the US-led coalition pressed on with its programme to free detainees no longer considered a security threat.
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