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    Israel may free more prisoners
    MANAMA, FEB. 21. Israel today released 500 Palestinian political prisoners following a ceasefire agreement with the Palestinians during a summit at the Egyptian resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh earlier this month. Of the 500 prisoners, 382 had been ...

    No power on earth can divide us, Bush tells Europe
    PARIS, FEB. 21.The U.S. President, George W. Bush, in Brussels for a summit most European analysts described as a "trans-Atlantic fence-mending mission", today said minor disagreements could not shake the firm friendship that existed between ...

    Negotiations on for new Iraqi Prime Minister
    MANAMA, FEB. 21. Hectic parleys to name a new Iraqi Prime Minister are underway as American and Iraqi troops launched a major offensive on the resistance stronghold of Ramadi. Iraq's U.S.-backed interim Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, was slated ...

    "Back channel process under way in Iraq"
    WASHINGTON, FEB. 21.Even as the Bush administration says for the record that it will not negotiate with the militants in Iraq, a back channel process is under way in Baghdad, according to the Time magazine which cited unnamed Pentagon and ...

    Sri Lankan ceasefire fragile
    COLOMBO, FEB. 21.As Sri Lanka's longest spell of non-fighting enters its third year on the midnight of February 23, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has committed 2,636 violations of the ceasefire agreement compared to 115 violations ...

    Race bomb ticking: British party
    LONDON, FEB. 21.As the immigration row hots up in Britain ahead of the general elections, expected in May, the far-Right British National Party (BNP) has warned that a "huge race bomb'' is "ticking'' away. In remarks reminiscent of the late ...

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