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    Al-Sistani may ease Najaf standoff
    MANAMA, AUG. 25. Iraq's top Shia spiritual leader, Syed Ali Sistani, who was recuperating from heart surgery in London, has arrived in the country in a bid to defuse the crisis in Najaf where American forces have encircled Shia fighters inside a ...

    Hussain quits paving way for Shaukat Aziz
    ISLAMABAD, AUG. 25. The stop-gap Prime Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, tendered his resignation today, paving the way for the elevation of Shaukat Aziz, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's handpicked nominee. Mr. Hussain, ...

    Bush jolted by Abu Ghraib report
    WASHINGTON, AUG. 25. An official report on the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal yesterday blamed a failure of leadership at the Pentagon for negligence over prison conditions and confusion over interrogation rules, which led to "Animal House" sadism in ...

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    Arrest after `intensive' probe
    Durban: The millionaire businessman son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Mark, was on Wednesday arrested in Cape Town over his alleged involvement in a coup plot in the central African country of Equatorial Guinea. Mark ...

    Contempt orders cancelled
    Washington: A federal judge has cancelled contempt orders against Time Magazine and one of its reporters after Mathew Cooper had agreed to give an interview to prosecutors of the Justice Department investigating the leak of the name of an ...

    Look-alike in trouble
    LONDON: He looks like Prince Charles, dresses like Prince Charles, smiles like Prince Charles, talks like Prince Charles, and if he gets into trouble he can get away with it because he is the Prince's official `double'— often needed to ...

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    Do not ignore Kashmiri Pandits: Pallone
    WASHINGTON, AUG. 25. The Democratic lawmaker, Frank Pallone, has written to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, expressing concern that Indian Government did not make a mention of the Kashmiri Pandits as part of its policy on Kashmir. The ...



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