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10 Mar 2005 08:59 AM
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Syrians demand the US to take its hands off Syria:
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Yesterday Damascus witnessed tens of thousands people that took to the streets in an attempt to prove the whole world that Syria has nothing to do with the image of a terrorist nation widely promoted by the US.
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10 Mar 2005 08:53 AM
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Blair: reckless to water down anti-terrorism bill:
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Tony Blair said Wednesday it would be reckless to water down the anti-terrorism bill as the law that is expected to protect Britain from terrorist attacks can still lose powers.
The government offered two amendments to the bill. Tony Blair has long been fighting the law, basically since the
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10 Mar 2005 08:52 AM
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Man released in Belfast killing case:
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The 11th man questioned by the police in the case of Robert McCartney murdered in Belfast in January was released last night, the police said.
Robert McCartney, 33, was beaten and stabbed to death at a bar in January by a gang including some members
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09 Mar 2005 12:38 PM
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Outgoing pro-Syrian PM to form new government:
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Lebanese pro-Syrian president Emile Lahoud asked Syria-backed prime minister to form a new government. The move is likely to evoke anger from the anti-Syrian opposition.
The president was mainly encouraged by a mass rally in support of Syria which is considered to be the biggest
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09 Mar 2005 11:53 AM
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Israel-Palestine summit failed, Jaber reported:
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Palestinian officials announced that Israel and Palestine didn’t reach an agreement on Wednesday considering an Israeli army pullback from West Bank cities.
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09 Mar 2005 11:49 AM
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Kosovo’s Former Prime Minister to face war crimes in the Hague:
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Kosovo’s former prime minister Ramush Haradinaj on Wednesday left the region to face war crime trial held by U.N.-run court in the Hague for his participation in violence during the war between ethnic Albanians and Serb
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09 Mar 2005 11:45 AM
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41 shot to death in Iraq:
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More than 40 bodies of people shot to death were found in the Iraqi village of al-Rumana, not far from the border with Syria.
The bodies were found at 6 p.m. (10 a.m. ET Tuesday). All the victims were shot in the forehead, doctors said. Police so far identified only one body of a woman.
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09 Mar 2005 11:43 AM
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The Commwarrior.A virus to attack cellphones:
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Data security firms report that a new cell phone virus has emerged recently and is attacking mobile phones via spreading photo and sound messages.
The Commwarrior.A virus is the first one capable of spreading via multimedia messages or through other Bluetooth devices, eventually exhausting the battery.
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09 Mar 2005 08:49 AM
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US warns IRA over a murdered Catholic case:
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The US reacted immediately to the Irish Republican Army’s offer to shoot the people involved in the killing of an Irish Catholic man in Belfast saying the IRA must disband.
"The IRA representatives detailed the outcome of the internal disciplinary proceedings thus far and stated in clear
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09 Mar 2005 08:45 AM
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Bolton to be next US envoy to the UN:
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John Bolton, undersecretary of State, will represent the US at the United Nations. Political analysts say the move is rather unexpected.
He once said it wouldn’t matter if 10 stories of the U.N. headquarters vanished and the US is the only real authority
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09 Mar 2005 08:35 AM
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Nobel Prize winner Bethe dies at 98:
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Hans Bethe, first atomic bomb developer and Nobel Prize winner, died Sunday at his home in Ithaca, New York.
He won the Nobel Prize in 1967 for discoveries about energy production in stars. He has been working as a professor
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09 Mar 2005 08:32 AM
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Chechen guerilla leader killed by Russian FSB:
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Russia managed to destroy at least one out of two most wanted men in the country, but it does not mean that the death of a guerilla leader will bring peace to the Chechen region, Russian political analysts say.
Chechen guerilla leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed by the Russian FSB security service on Tuesday in a small
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07 Mar 2005 01:55 PM
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Pope made a silent sign of cross from his hospital window:
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A frail John Paul II silently waved from his hospital window and made the sign of the cross to a cheering and weeping throng. 12 days ago he was hospitalized in a Rome clinic for throat surgery to ease a breathing problem.
It was
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07 Mar 2005 01:52 PM
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Sgrena: US soldiers were aware of her release:
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It is not clear yet who should claim the responsibility for the death of an Italian officer who convoyed a freed Italian journalist at a checkpoint near Baghdad on Friday.
Italian military intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was killed near a checkpoint in Iraq on Friday as he was convoying
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07 Mar 2005 01:52 PM
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Israel’s Sharon is planning a summit with Palestinians’ Abbas:
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are planning to hold a summit on Feb. 8 in Egypt. The main point for discussion is compiling an agreement to end violence.
The election in January of Abbas is believed to be favorable for promoting peace.
Sharon
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