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Aznar asks UNSC to draw up list of terrorists
UNITED NATIONS, MAY 7.The Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Maria Aznar, has called on the U.N. Security Council to draw up a world list of terrorist groups similar to the list used to crack down on Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. But, in a ...
Bush names Iraq administrator
WASHINGTON, MAY 7.The U.S. President, George W. Bush, has picked a former diplomat and counter-terrorism expert, Paul Bremer, to be his special representative in Iraq and in the process ending days of speculation of inter-agency ...
Armitage arrives in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, MAY 7. The U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, arrived here tonight to discuss with various functionaries of the Pakistan Government, among other subjects, "normalisation of ties" between Islamabad and New Delhi. Mr. ...
Columbia probe backs damaged tiles theory
HOUSTON (UNITED STATES), MAY 7.Investigators have picked a leading theory to explain why the space shuttle Columbia broke apart on re-entry, proposing that superheated gases penetrated the spacecraft through damaged thermal tiles on its left ...
Pak. nuclear arms authority meets
ISLAMABAD, MAY 7. Hours before the arrival of the U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, presided over a meeting of the National Command Authority (NCA), the body entrusted with the task of ...
Galloway declares 'war' on Blair
LONDON, MAY 7. George Galloway, the controversial Labour MP suspended from the party for his anti-war remarks, hit back today accusing the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of stifling dissent at home while claiming to fight for freedom in Iraq. He ...
'Saddam' urges Iraqis to fight on
CAIRO, MAY 7.In a new audiotape — the first allegedly made by Saddam Hussein since U.S.-led forces ousted his regime — the deposed Iraqi leader urges his countrymen to fight foreign occupation. The Sydney Morning Herald said ...
China deploys cadres to check disease
BEIJING, MAY 7.China deployed communist party cadres and investigators to monitor the spread of SARS while WHO decided to send a team to a province surrounding Beijing to prevent a rural outbreak of the epidemic as the countrywide toll rose to ...
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