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President Bush has cancelled a January trip to Africa fuelling speculation that he is preparing for war on Iraq. The move comes as the US says it will share intelligence about Iraq with United Nations weapons inspectors following a request from chief insp
World | December 21, 2002, Saturday // 00:00
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The Vatican has published an article admitting for the first time that Pope Pius XII, could have done more for Jews persecuted in the second World War. Pius XII was the leader of the Catholic Church between 1939 and 1958.
World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Billionaire financier and philanthropist George Soros has been fined 2.2m euros (?1.
World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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European Union ministers are making a final attempt to save depleted fish stocks by agreeing new fishing quotas. The BBC's environment correspondent Tim Hirsch says all sides now accept that there will have to be drastic cuts in the number of cod caught a
World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Venezuelan oil industry workers threaten to a Supreme Court order to end the strike, which has paralysed the country's oil industry.Earlier on Thursday, the court ordered the immediate reopening of the state-owned oil company (PDVSA), which has been cripp
World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Asif Ramzi, one of the country's most wanted criminals, linked to the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl died Thursday in an apparently accidental explosion at a secret bomb factory in Karachi, Pakistani police say. Another three men were killed in the exp
World | December 20, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash has said he is ready to hold talks with the Greek Cypriots on a United Nations plan to reunify their long-divided island. The UN settlement plan calls for the parties to reach an agreement by 28 February, with the goal
World | December 19, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Prosecutors at the war crimes tribunal in The Hague have called for a prison sentence of up to 25 years for the former Bosnian Serb President, Biljana Plavsic. Seventy-two-year-old Mrs Plavsic pleaded guilty to persecuting Muslims and Croats during the wa
World | December 19, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Russia's President Vladimir Putin has sacked the head of army operations in Chechnya, Gennady Troshev. General Troshev has publicly refused to take up a new position - command of the Siberian military district.
World | December 19, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Immigration officials in southern California have detained hundreds of Iranians and other Muslim men who turned up to register under residence laws brought in as part of the United States' anti-terror drive. Muslim groups estimated that at least 500 men w
World | December 19, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Venezuela's Supreme Court has ordered embattled President Hugo Chavez to hand back control of Caracas police force to the capital's mayor. Chavez had ordered the military to take over police stations in the capital on 16 November, seizing power from one o
World | December 19, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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President George W.Bush has ordered his military to begin deploying a national missile defence system, to be operational starting in 2004.
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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French anti-terrorist police have seized chemicals from the home of suspected Islamic militants. Three men and one woman, all of North African origin, have been arrested and tests are being carried out on the liquid and powder substances found in their ap
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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A controversial German immigration law designed to bring in thousands of highly-skilled foreign workers has been struck down by the country's highest court. The Supreme Court ruled in favour of a group of conservative-led states, that had argued that the
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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A Dutch court has acquitted four suspected members of an Islamic militant network linked to al-Qaeda that prosecutors said plotted to attack US interests in Europe. French national Jerome Courtailler and Algerian Abdelkader Rabia were found not guilty of
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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The moment Lord Of the Rings film fans have been anticipating for a year has arrived with the worldwide opening of The Two Towers. Director Peter Jackson's second adaptation of the classic Tolkien fantasies is being rolled out on more than 10,000 screens
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Insurance and loans giant Conseco has filed the third biggest US bankruptcy after WorldCom and Enron, with $6.5bn (?4bn) in outstanding debts.
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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An anti-terrorism court in Delhi has sentenced to death three men convicted of helping militants attack India's parliament last year. Mohammed Afzal, a 35-year-old fruit merchant, Shaukat Hussain and SAR Geelani, a Delhi college teacher, were convicted on
World | December 18, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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An international human rights group says women and girls continue to suffer extreme repression in parts of Afghanistan. Human Rights Watch says it has evidence of mounting abuses, harassment and restrictions of women's rights.
World | December 17, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Iraqi opposition groups meeting in London have decided on the make-up of a committee that could form the basis for a new government in Baghdad. The final declaration, reached after four days of often heated talks, called for a democratic and federal Iraq
World | December 17, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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