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Attacks on Shias continue in Iraq; eight killed MANAMA, FEB. 19.There has been no let-up in violence targeting Iraqi Shias, with at least eight more persons dying while observing Ashura — the holiest day in the Shia calendar. Up to five persons were killed when mortars were fired at ... "Terror threat to tsunami aid workers" SINGAPORE, FEB. 19.The Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, today alerted the international community to the "new intelligence information" about the "possible terrorist threats" to the security of the aid workers currently engaged in ... Bush denies plans to attack Iran WASHINGTON, FEB. 19.The United States President, George W. Bush, has said that his country has no plans for attacking Iran to take out its suspected nuclear weapons and that diplomacy is still the preferred route. That said, Mr. Bush also made it ... Bush on bridge-building visit to Europe WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, FEB. 19.Romantic trans-Atlanticists, who look back fondly to the days when Europe and the United States were best of friends, will feel a pang of nostalgia next week. On the penultimate day of his visit to Europe, the U.S. ... Naipaul, Rushdie not on Man Booker International shortlist LONDON, FEB. 19. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Gunter Grass, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and John Updike are in, but the Nobel laureate, V.S. Naipaul and the twice Booker Prize winner, Salman Rushdie, have failed to make it to ... Spain to vote on E.U. Constitution today PARIS, FEB. 19.Spain expects to become the first country to ratify the European Union's historic Constitution by popular vote in a referendum on Sunday. But with opposition from nationalist parties, the vote in Spain reflects a wider climate of ... Nuclear issue: Chinese envoy for North Korea SINGAPORE, FEB. 19.The Chinese authorities today sent a "senior official" of the governing Communist Party of China (CPC) to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the context of new international efforts to bring Pyongyang back to ... Islamabad asks PoK to speed up road repairs ISLAMABAD, FEB. 19. Close on the heels of pact between Islamabad and New Delhi to run the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service, Pakistan has asked the Pak-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) Government to speed up repair work on a road which connects them."We ... Other Stories
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