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Saddam trial faces questions over neutrality
BAGHDAD, JULY 2. The complexities of preparing the case against Saddam Hussein became apparent within weeks of Iraq's special tribunal being set up at the end of last year. Salem Chalabi, the U.S.-and-British-educated lawyer who runs the ...

Musharraf Government is protecting Osama, says Benazir
LONDON, JULY 2. Mocking the wild-goose chase for Osama bin Laden, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto today suggested that the best place to look for him was in the "basement of the presidency of Pakistan.'' In potentially ...

Five killed in Turkey blast
ISTANBUL, JULY 2.A Turkish Governor said at least five persons were killed and 24 others injured on Friday when a bomb struck his convoy in the eastern part of the country. The Governor, Hikmet Tan, was not injured in the blast but his car was ...

Fragments of Homo erectus skull found
NEW YORK, JULY 2. Scientists have found parts of a Homo erectus skull about a million years old in an area in Kenya where hand tools of this age were commonly found but fossils were rare. In an article published on Friday in the journal ...

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Religious leaders slam Bush move
Washington: Religious leaders have slammed the Bush-Cheney election campaign for asking church-going volunteers to hand over membership directories as a way of mobilising support for the November 2 presidential election. Against the backdrop of ...

Nepalese Mayor assassinated
Kathmandu: The Mayor of Pokhara, Nepal's major tourist town, was on Friday assassinated by suspected Maoists who had earlier warned him to resign, even as 10 rebels were killed in separate incidents in the Himalayan Kingdom. The shooting happened ...

'Attacks planned in Bahrain'
MANAMA, JULY 2. The United States State Department has issued a travel warning which said the Department had received information that extremists were planning attacks against U.S. and other Western interests in the Kingdom of Bahrain and urged ...

Nod for polio vaccination
Kano (Nigeria): The Nigerian State of Kano, the centre of a polio outbreak in Africa, has pledged to resume vaccinations against the disease after accepting that immunisation was not a Western plot to harm Muslims. The authorities told the World ...

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India, Pakistan agree to sustain dialogue process
SINGAPORE, JULY 2. The External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, and the Pakistan Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, today agreed to ``continue'' the latest bilateral-dialogue process and even take it ``forward.'' This was indicated by ...

India, Pakistan should prevent arms race: U.S.
WASHINGTON, JULY 2.Taking note of the statement of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, that he will continue the nuclear programme and test a large missile within two months, the Bush administration is urging both India and Pakistan to take ...



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