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Iraqi president calls for reconciliation
Final vote count starts, but results still a week away
Iraq's interim President Ghazi al-Yawar yesterday sought reconciliation with radical Sunni parties, which boycotted the country's watershed election as the final vote count got under way.
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Kashmiri local polls end peacefully
The first civic elections in decades passed off peacefully yesterday in Indian Kashmir's two biggest cities despite a protest strike on the day and killings in the lead-up to the vote, officials and witnesses
 
Israel puts West Bank security transfer on hold after Hamas shelling
Israel put the transfer of security control in parts of the West Bank on hold yesterday after Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip failed to prevent a volley of mortar attacks by Hamas.
 
Bush talks Iraq's future with world leaders
Democrats' call to lay out pullout timetable rejected
US President George W. Bush on Monday pushed Iraqi leaders to make sure that all Iraqis -- "whether or not they voted" in historic weekend elections -- have a voice in their new political system.
 
US Judge Rules
Guantanamo tribunals unconstitutional
A US federal judge Monday ruled that military tribunals for international terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base are unconstitutional, leaving in doubt the fate of hundreds of detainees at the
 
US troops kill 4 in Iraq prison
US troops opened fire to quell a riot at a military run prison in southern Iraq, killing four inmates and wounding six, US military authorities said yesterday.
 
State of Union Address
Bush for loosening of immigration laws
President Bush is ready to challenge Congress to approve a stack of politically divisive measures he has proposed before without success, from major changes in Social Security to a loosening of the nation's
 
Sudan guilty of gross abuses in Darfur, not genocide: UN
A UN-appointed commission accused the Sudanese government on Monday of gross, systematic human rights violations in Darfur, but stopped short of labelling the violence in the region as genocide.
 

 
   
 
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