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BBC News
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US President George W Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear programme, but "all options are on the table".
Mr Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.
"The f..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lashed out at the United States during an unprecedented trip to Iraq. He is demanding that major powers leave the region. Ahmadinejad says the foreign presence in Iraq is an "insult to the regional nations and a h..
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SF Gate
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Voting in Pakistan's parliamentary election went better than expected, but conditions during the campaign period favored the ruling party, European Union monitors said Wednesday.
"There was not a level playing field. It was a field that benefited the r..
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SF Gate
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Rebel soldiers shot and critically wounded East Timor's president and opened fire on the prime minister Monday in a failed coup attempt in the recently independent nation. A top rebel leader was killed during one of the attacks.
President Jose Ramos-Ho..
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BBC News
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Officials from Kenya's opposition party were behind attacks on members of the president's ethnic group and are planning more, Human Rights watch says.
"We have evidence that ODM politicians and local leaders actively fomented some post-election violenc..
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BBC News
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Kenyan Attorney General Amos Wako has called for an independent investigation into vote results that led to President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
Mr Wako said on national television that "a proper tally of the valid certificates returned and co..
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SF Gate
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Pummeled by international and domestic skepticism over his government's version of events surrounding Benazir Bhutto's assassination, President Pervez Musharraf announced Wednesday that Pakistan had invited Scotland Yard to help investigate the killing...
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CNN
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A British teacher in Sudan jailed over the naming of a teddy bear has been released from police custody, the British Embassy in Khartoum said, several hours after Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir pardoned her. Gillian Gibbons, freed after Sudan's presiden..
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CTV
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Former United Nations' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has challenged U.S. President George Bush's assertion that Iran poses a nuclear threat and the world should take pre-emptive action.
Bush has recently renewed calls for a missile defence shield i..
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New York Times
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President Bush warned today that Iran would be raising the risk of a “World War III” if it came to possess nuclear weapons.
And he said he believed that Russia still wanted to stop Iran from developing such weapons.
Those comments, made during a..
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CNN
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul has warned the U.S. that a congressional bill recognizing the mass killings of Armenians during World War One as genocide could cause "serious problems" for relations between the two countries. The resolution was passed by t..
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MSNBC
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President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Iran must be encouraged to make its nuclear program fully transparent, but also underscored there is no proof it is pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
“We are sharing our partners’ concern about making..
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USA Today
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The South Korean president signed a commitment with North Korea Thursday to seek a formal end to the Korean War, ending a historic three-day summit during which he was snubbed by his host and upstaged by a nuclear agreement 600 miles away in Beijing.
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Al Jazeera
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Iran is the new Nazi Germany and its President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is the new Hitler. Or so Israeli officials have been declaring for months as they and their American allies try to persuade the doubters in Washington that an attack on Tehran is essenti..
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USA Today
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A purported Taliban spokesman on Tuesday said a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Bush had "no result" and that militants' demands must be met if 21 South Korean hostages are to be safely released.
The spokesman, Qari Yousef A..
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CNN
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the Taliban still endanger innocent people, but they pose no significant threat either to his government or to its institutions. "It's a force that is defeated, frustrated, acting in cowardice by killing chil..
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Los Angeles Times
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YASSER ARAFAT was the first to arrive. He came by presidential helicopter, his black and white kaffiyeh flapping in the cool evening breeze. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and President Clinton arrived the next day. And then there were three, a trio of..
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Washington Post
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President Bush, facing a growing Republican revolt against his Iraq policy, has rejected calls to change course but will launch a campaign emphasizing his intent to draw down U.S. forces next year and move toward a more limited mission if security conditi..
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BBC News
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Argentine President Nestor Kirchner has said Britain won a "colonial victory" in the Falklands War that was unacceptable in the eyes of the world.
Mr Kirchner was speaking on the 25th anniversary of the end of the conflict over the islands in the south..
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Reuters
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President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.
The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops..
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