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A US military judge sentenced Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick to eight years in prison on Thursday for sexually and physically abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad.Frederick's lawyer, Gary Myers, called the sentence excessive and said he woul
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Hundreds of British soldiers will be redeployed in central Iraq in response to a US request, the defence secretary has confirmed. Geoff Hoon told the House of Commons the deployment of about 850 Black Watch troops and support staff would last "weeks rathe
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Lawyers appointed to defend former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic pleaded to quit, after he has refused to cooperate with the team and insisted on defending himself. Solicitors pleaded for the former president to be allowed to defend himself at his wa
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro has reportedly broken his arm and his knee after falling at the end of a public speech in Santa Clara. "Please excuse me for having fallen...
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Gunmen attacked a bus carrying Baghdad airport employees to work on Thursday, killing at least four people and wounding several others, including the driver, an airport employee said. Militants often attack buses transporting people working at US-run base
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Typhoon Tokage has torn across Japan, killing almost 50 people and leaving dozens missing. Media said that Tokade was the deadliest typhoon to hit the country in a decade.
World | October 21, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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The Turkish Cypriot government resigned Wednesday, intending to form a new coalition after a failed referendum to reunite the island. Rauf Denktash, the leader of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, accepted the resignation.
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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More than one million state employees are expected to protest today in Moscow on the initiative of the labour unions of education, health and culture sphere employees. Another three million people are expected to join later the nationwide protest, demandi
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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A UN committee announced that it has put the terrorist group of the Jordanian Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi on its list of groups and organisations subject to UN sanctions. The terrorist formation has claimed responsibility for number of attacks on US troops, kidn
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Former President Clinton will campaign for Sen. John Kerry early next week in Philadelphia, a senior Democratic official who is familiar with the former president's plans said.
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Typhoon Tokage hit western Japan, killing at least two people and snarling transport as it lashed the country with heavy rains that set off landslides and forced thousands to evacuate. Tokage -- which means "lizard" in Japanese -- is the second typhoon to
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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An earthquake rocked a densely populated city in southwestern China, destroying more than 20,000 houses but killing no one. 12people were injured, one critically, in the tremor early on Tuesday morning, Xinhua news agency said, adding that tents had been
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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The greenhouse effect could wreck attempts to lift the world's poorest people out of poverty and reverse human progress, campaigners say. A report by a coalition of environment and aid agencies calls for urgent action to avert the threat.
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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CARE International has suspended its aid operations in Iraq, after the director of the charity's work there was kidnapped. A video of Margaret Hassan has been broadcast on al-Jazeera TV station, showing her with her hands tied behind her back.
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Police beat up several dozen protestors in the Belarusian capital as hundreds of people demonstrated for a second day running against a referendum which has opened the way for hardline President Alexander Lukashenko to retain power indefinitely. Some 500
World | October 20, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Four people were killed and at least 80 wounded in a mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard base north of Baghdad on Tuesday, a Defence Ministry official said. The attack took place Tuesday morning and targeted a National Guard base in al-Mashaheda area
World | October 19, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
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A militant group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq said it had killed two Macedonian hostages whom it accused of spying for the United States, Arabic television Al-Jazeera said Monday. The group said in a statement that its "security apparatus arres
World | October 18, 2004, Monday // 00:00
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A suicide driver in Baghdad exploded a car near a police patrol, killing at least seven people and wounding 20. US troops pounded Fallujah with airstrikes and tank fire Sunday, and the Iraqi government appealed to residents to expel "foreign terrorists" t
World | October 18, 2004, Monday // 00:00
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The militant group led by terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared its allegiance to Osama bin Laden citing the need for unity against "the enemies of Islam." The declaration, which appeared Sunday on a Web site, said al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Ji
World | October 18, 2004, Monday // 00:00
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There have been allegations of vote-rigging in Belarus where people have voted on whether the president should be allowed to stand for a third term. Both the EU and US have cast doubts on whether the poll is free and fair.
World | October 18, 2004, Monday // 00:00
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North Korea has already completed the development of plutonium-based nuclear weapons with the help of Pakistan, according to Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda. This is the first time a senior Japanese official has confirmed North Korea's cla
World | October 17, 2004, Sunday // 00:00
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