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Rumsfeld approved of torture, says report
WASHINGTON, MAY 16.In a development that is bound to perk up the debate here and overseas on the gross abuses of Iraqi prisoners especially as it related to who in the Pentagon was in the know of things, it is now being said the U.S. Defence ...

Iraqi women working for Americans killed
BAGHDAD, MAY 16. Gunmen killed three Iraqi women who were working for the U.S.-led coalition on Sunday, and militiamen in the southern city of Nasiriyah, a stronghold of radical cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, staged hit-and-run attacks on Italian troops ...

U.S., U.K. relent on sovereignty?
LONDON/BAGHDAD, MAY 16. The British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, moved to extract himself from growing turmoil in Iraq with a pledge to hand over "full sovereignty" in June, as renewed violence flared in the troubled country. Downing Street ...

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    India & World
    U.K. departments want outsourcing in India: report
    LONDON, MAY 16.Apart from multi-national financial institutions, British government departments now plan to outsource in India as part of their cost-cutting and efficiency drive. ``Departments should seek to match the savings achieved by ...



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