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Iran using Hezbollah in Iraq fight: US
Iran is using the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah as a "proxy" to arm Shia militants in Iraq and Tehran's elite Quds force helped militants carry out a January attack in Karbala in which five Americans
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UK Muslims offer help in bombs probe
British Muslim leaders urged their communities yesterday to help fight extremism after three failed car bombings, amid signs that the new government may be better able to win over their "hearts and minds.
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Pakistan readies new plan to fight Taliban
President Pervez Musharraf held a special meeting with top Pakistani officials yesterday to discuss a new strategy to curb "Talibanisation" along the Afghan border, officials said.
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600 civilians killed in Afghanistan this year
Says UN
The United Nations said yesterday it estimated that about 600 Afghan civilians were killed in insurgency-linked violence this year, just over half of them by pro-government forces.
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Top Republican wants orderly Iraq pullout
Pressure on the US administration to start pulling out of Iraq deepened Sunday with one of the Senate's most respected Republicans calling for an "orderly" withdrawal of troops in the months ahead.
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‘Capitalism is bad for men's health’
Communism may be oppressive, but it seems as though capitalism is bad for men's health, according to a recent study which found significant increases in mortality rates after the collapse of the Soviet
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US is still a 'killing machine', says Castro
Fidel Castro said Sunday that the US government continues to be a "killing machine" after revelations that nearly 50 years ago it tried to use American mobsters to kill him with poison pills.
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North Korea still a threat: US Gen
The top US military commander in South Korea on Monday criticized last week's missile test launches by North Korea, saying the country remains a threat despite its recent moves toward dismantling itsnuclear
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Thailand to extend emergency rule in Muslim south
Thailand will extend a state of emergency in its southern provinces, a government official said yesterday, as separatist violence in the Muslim-majority region continues to claim lives almost daily.
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Iran, Venezuela seal anti-US alliance
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez sealed their anti-American alliance Monday by laying the foundation stone of a joint petrochemical plant.
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Global confce on Afghanistan opens in Rome
A two-day global meet on the state of law in war-battered Afghanistan opened in Rome yesterday, due to be attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Nato head Jaap De Hoop Scheffer.
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Differences cool Bush-Putin ties
US relations with Russia are on simmer, so President Bush's meeting Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be judged on how respectfully the two leaders agree to disagree.
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Bomb blast kills 7 Afghan cops
Seven Afghan policemen were killed yesterday when a remotely detonated bomb exploded underneath their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, police said.
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Sex offence case against Israel president delayed
Court proceedings against Israel's outgoing president Moshe Katsav for sex offences risked further delay yesterday as the prosecution sought extra time to justify a plea bargain slammed as too lenient.
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35 hurt in clash with cops in Kashmir
Thirty-five people were hurt yesterday when thousands of villagers chanting, "Death to killers," clashed with police in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, accusing them of gunning down innocent civilians.
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