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Partial returns put Shia coalition ahead
BAGHDAD, FEB. 4.Iraqi election officials on Friday released a new, partial tally of votes from the weekend's elections, showing candidates backed by Shia Muslim clerics continuing to roll up a strong lead over other tickets including one headed ...
Nepal police raid political meeting
KATHMANDU, FEB. 4.Dozens of paramilitary police personnel raided an underground political meeting and rounded up a group of party officials on Friday, days after the King seized power and banned public gatherings in the Himalayan kingdom. ...
Iran, Syria hit back at Bush
WASHINGTON, FEB. 4.The Syrian and Iranian Governments have reacted angrily to the U.S. President, George W. Bush's vow to confront them over their alleged harbouring of terrorists and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Bush's State of ...
Iran not on agenda: Rice
LONDON, FEB. 4.A military intervention in Iran to thwart its contentious nuclear programme was not currently on America's "agenda'' and Washington hoped to resolve the dispute through diplomatic means, said the U.S. Secretary of State, ...
Musharraf pins hopes on U.S. aid
ISLAMABAD, FEB. 4. The Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, has expressed the hope that the U.S. "assistance" to the Pakistani armed forces will help maintain military balance in the region. He was talking to a U.S. defence delegation led by ...
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Review terms of globalisation, says Chidambaram
LONDON, FEB. 4. The Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, has urged the developed countries to review the current terms of economic globalisation to make the process ``more just and more equitable.'' Reiterating India's commitment to ...
`Dialogue only way to resolve Kashmir row'
ISLAMABAD, FEB. 4. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that dialogue was the only way to resolve the Kashmir dispute and commitment to the process was the rationale behind the composite dialogue Islamabad was holding with New ...
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