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Top court weighs Ukraine polls
West calls breakup unacceptable
Ukraine's top court convened yesterday to weigh claims of irregularities in the country's bitterly-disputed presidential elections amid threats of separatism, mass protests and warnings from Nato andthe
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Zardari Says
Benazir to end exile, lead party to polls victory
Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto will end her exile and lead her party to victory in the next election, her husband Asif Ali Zardari said following his release from jail.
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Malaysia to press on with crackdown on migrants
Malaysia will press ahead with a controversial plan to arrest and deport hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants in January despite a warning by an international rights group that it could lead to widespread
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Iran okays full freeze of uranium enrichment
Iran agreed not to test any centrifuges as part of a total suspension of nuclear activities that can yield weapons-grade uranium, clearing the way for the UN nuclear agency to bring an end to a dispute
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Embattled Sharon faces 3 no confidence motions
The Israeli government was facing three no-confidence motions in parliament yesterday as the opposition ratcheted up the pressure on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's minority administration.
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White House nixed early hearing on Rice nomination
At the urging of the White House, a key Senate panel put off consideration of the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on
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Nichols admits playing role in Oklahoma blast
Convicted conspirator Terry Nichols admitted to prosecutors he played a key role in gathering and assembling the components of the bomb that destroyed an Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168, the
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Curfew in Lankan town after grenade attack on bus
The Sri Lankan government ordered a curfew yesterday in the eastern port city of Trincomalee after one person was killed in a grenade attack on a bus that defied a strike call by rebel sympathisers, police
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New theory blames ducks for bird flu spread: WHO
Domesticated ducks may be the main transmitters of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed 32 people in two major outbreaks in Asia earlier this year, a senior World Health Organisation official said yesterday.
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