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Video film contradicts U.S. claim
MANAMA, MAY 24.Fresh video footage of revelry at a wedding in a desert village in Iraq has raised new doubts about the U.S. version of an air strike last week in which 40 people were killed. The U.S. military command has said that it had bombed a ...

Leaked memo confirms U.K.-U.S. rift over Iraq
LONDON, MAY 24. Persistent reports about a simmering rift between London and Washington over U.S. military tactics in Iraq have been confirmed by a leaked Foreign Office memo, sharply criticising America's "heavy-handed'' handling of the growing ...

North Korean nuclear trade exposed
VIENNA, MAY 24.North Korea supplied uranium for Libya's secret nuclear bomb programme, U.N. investigators have established, raising alarm about the heightened risk of so-called rogue states or terrorist groups buying nuclear materials. Western ...

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Will soon speak to Sonia, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD, MAY 24. The Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that he intended to speak to the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, soon. Interacting with students at a convention here, Gen. Musharraf referred to his conversation with the ...

Manmohan's statement encouraging, says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, MAY 24. Pakistan characterised statements by the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, and the External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, as "very encouraging" and hoped that there would be no general disruption in the calendar of meetings ...

U.S. hopeful of rapprochement
WASHINGTON, MAY 24. The Bush administration is looking forward to working with the new government headed by Manmohan Singh and has expressed optimism that the "sort of gradual rapprochement" between India and Pakistan will be able to move ...