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US troops killed Iraqis in cold blood: BBC: Video reveals fresh incident
BAGHDAD, June 2: Pressure mounted on US commanders on Friday over the conduct of their troops in Iraq as further footage surfaced of alleged atrocities committed by US-led forces.... 
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Police raid London house, arrest two: Plot suspected on British soil
LONDON, June 2: Armed officers arrested two men following a large-scale anti-terrorist raid on a house in London in which police shot and injured one of the suspects....
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100,000 turn out at Nepal rally
KATHMANDU, June 2: More than 100,000 Maoist rebels and supporters on Friday thronged Kathmandu where top leaders addressed their first mass meeting here and offered to merge forces with Nepal’s army....
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US committed to Asia’s security, says Rumsfeld SINGAPORE, June 2:US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Friday the United States is capable of meeting its security commitments in the Asia-Pacific region regardless of the situation in Iraq....
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Three die in suicide attack near Kandahar
KANDAHAR, June 2: Three civilian men riding a motorbike were killed on Friday when a suspected suicide car bomb exploded near a convoy of Canadian and Afghan troops in southern Afghanistan, police said....
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Prayers in Indonesia as looters hinder aid
BANTUL, June 2: Thousands of survivors of the Indonesian earthquake held their first Friday prayers since the disaster after looters raided aid convoys bringing food and medicines to stranded victims....
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Eight oil workers kidnapped in Nigeria
LAGOS, June 2: Gunmen abducted eight foreign workers in a night-time raid on an oil rig off the coast of Nigeria on Friday, raising new security fears after a series of militant attacks that cut output from Africa’s top oil producer....
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Web firms told to monitor clients
NEW YORK, June 2: The US Justice Department has asked Internet companies to keep records on the activities of their customers to aid law enforcement and intends to propose a law...
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Two Egypt policemen shot dead by Israelis
CAIRO, June 2: Israeli soldiers shot and killed two Egyptian policemen who strayed over their common border on Friday, days before a key meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Hosni Mubarak....
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Russia to set up naval base in Syria: daily
MOSCOW, June 2: Russian military officials on Friday denied a report that Moscow hopes to create a permanent naval base in Syria that would give it a Mediterranean outpost and represent a major shift in the regional security balance....
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Lankan body to draft new constitution
COLOMBO, June 2: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Friday appointed a parliamentary committee to draft a new constitution in a bid to resolve the ethnic question....
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7 of a family shot dead in US
CHICAGO, June 2: Seven members of a family, including three children, were shot dead at a house in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Thursday. According to police, assailants armed with assault rifles entered the home late in the night....
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Gulf states rethink US-led security alliance: Tension between Washington and Tehran
WASHINGTON: Amid increasing tensions between Tehran and Washington over Iran’s nuclear programme, the George W. Bush administration is courting the Persian/Arab Gulf monarchies with the same proposal it offered them 15...
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A town awoke to slaughter: When Marines rampaged through Haditha
BAGHDAD: The killing began shortly after sunrise on a November day. As a US patrol rolled through Haditha, a homemade bomb exploded beneath the belly of a Humvee, rocking the sleepy riverside town....
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Syria’s silent purge
LONDON: Almost a year after Syria completed a humiliating military withdrawal from Lebanon amid predictions of imminent regime change in Damascus, President Bashar Assad is clawing back lost ground....
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Hijacking the legacy of Harry Truman
WASHINGTON: No matter how polarised Washington becomes, there is still one Democrat Republicans love: Harry Truman. Last December, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared the Bush administration’s democracy promotion efforts ‘consistent...
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