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Turkey will not send troops to Iraq though the country supports the deployment of NATO forces in Iraq, Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said at the Thursday NATO Council session in Brussels.Gul made this statement after the US Secretary of State Col
World | December 5, 2003, Friday // 00:00
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The United States denied it was to blame for a diplomatic hitch that could delay six-nation North Korea nuclear talks until next year. The US said Pyongyang had demanded major concessions before the dialogue started.
World | December 5, 2003, Friday // 00:00
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A helicopter transporting Poland's Prime Minister Leszek Miller made an emergency landing near a Warsaw suburbia and injured 10 people, AFP reported. The spokesperson of Poland's government said that the emergency landing took place some 20 km away from W
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Palestinian militant groups meeting in Cairo have opened formal talks aimed at reaching agreement on a conditional ceasefire with Israel. The talks come as the authors of an unofficial Middle East peace plan begin lobbying for support in the US.
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that he saw hopeful signs that NATO may be moving toward acceptance of an expanded role in Iraq. Powell raised the issue in a speech at the start of a NATO foreign ministers meeting and said afterward that
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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A rocket exploded near the US Embassy in Kabul on Thursday some two hours after US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld met with Afghanistan's leader in another part of the capital. It was announced that Rumsfeld had safely left the country to continue his t
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has withdrawn over USD 1 B from Iraq's central bank hours before the invasion of US forces, international agencies reported. The reports cite a letter, believed to have been written by the former dictator, which was foun
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Police in Istanbul are on alert after a tip-off for a planned attempt on the life of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other high-ranking officials, Turkish online news provider Journal Turk reported, citing information of the General Police Directo
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Some 30,000 lights shined on the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center in New York, US, and the traditional lighting ceremony was attended by thousands of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. The nine-ton tree was planted 50 years ago in Connect
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Iraqi political parties and coalition authorities are discussing the possibility to create a 1,000-member militia in support of the US military fight against insurgents in the war-torn country, officials said. The militia would be formed by uniting fighte
World | December 4, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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In a statement said to be from Al-Qaeda, that was sent to media in Turkey, the terrorist organization refuted claims that it has organized and carried out the bombing attacks in Istanbul, the Turkish Internet Haber channel reported. The statement also sai
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Saudi Arabia says authorities have arrested a suspect in the terror strike last month at a housing compound in Riyadh. The November 8 bombing killed 17 people and wounded 122 others at a housing compound near the capital city's diplomatic quarter.
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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A 42-year-old German accused of killing, dismembering and eating the flesh of another man admitted the charges as his murder trial began Wednesday, but said his victim had been willing. Armin Meiwes, a computer expert who lived in a half-timbered former m
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Israel reacted with disappointment Wednesday after US Secretary of State Colin Powell confirmed he will meet with organizers of an informal Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. The comments by Zalman Shoval, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was the
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The head of the Iraqi Governing Council renewed his demand Wednesday that a proposed transitional legislature be elected by Iraqi voters, a move opposed by U.S.
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The US Justice Department is expected to urge federal judges to permit the execution of Zacarias Moussaoui, a key suspect in the September 11, 2001 attacks, at an appeal hearing in Virginia. Earlier, another court ruled that the man could not be put to de
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Floods in southern France that have killed at least five people forced authorities to declare Marseille and its region a disaster area and prompted a visit to a crisis coordination centre by President Jacques Chirac. Torrential rain since late Monday has
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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US troops captured the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's long-term deputy in an operation, aiming at catching his head as Washington's partners fretted over troop deployments in Iraq. Saad Mohammed al-Duri was captured near Hawijah in the day in which
World | December 3, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The trial against the man accused of murdering Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh will start on January 20, an article of the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reads. The newspaper cited Stockholm district court judge Goran Nilsson who said that he hoped tha
World | December 2, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Yasser Arafat praised an informal Israeli-Palestinian peace pact, but violence persisted in the West Bank with an Israeli sweep through the town of Ramallah. Three militants were killed in the Monday raid, the army said.
World | December 2, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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A UN security guard was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head in an apparent suicide committed inside UN headquarters on Monday, police said. Michael Holton's body was found in a third floor lounge shortly before noon.
World | December 2, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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