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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold further talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to try to win his support for a tough UN resolution to deal with Iraq. Mr Blair has already made clear that he intends to address Mr Putin's concerns that
World | October 11, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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Early results in Pakistan's general elections have shown a surprisingly strong performance by anti-American Muslim fundamentalist parties. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), or United Action Front, has won at least 20 of the 60 or so seats officially decl
World | October 11, 2002, Friday // 00:00
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An Israeli woman has died of injuries sustained in a suicide bomb attack at a bus stop near Tel Aviv. A Palestinian attacker is also believed to have died in the attack on a main road near Bnei Brak, a suburb of Tel Aviv.
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Yemen has acknowledged for the first time that an explosion on a French-owned tanker off its coast on Sunday may have been the result of a terrorist attack. The Yemeni Government - which had previously insisted that an accidental fire had caused the blast
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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A new opinion poll in Ireland suggests that support for the Nice Treaty on EU enlargement has been rapidly increasing. The poll for US-based bankers Citigroup found that support was running at 44%, a significant increase on a similar poll last month, whic
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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Police in the United States are trying to determine if a man shot dead at a petrol station near Washington could be the ninth victim of a sniper on a week-long killing spree. Investigators in the Virginia town of Manassas said it was too early to know if
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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The United States has urged the European Union to hold membership talks with Turkey as soon as possible after Brussels failed to set a start date in a key report. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, has approved a report judging that 10 count
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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The global economy is going to stay in the doldrums until mid-2003, the United Nations warns. Till now, the UN believed that the world shouold have pulled itself round from the slowdown which began in 2000 by the end of this year, with 1.
World | October 10, 2002, Thursday // 00:00
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A woman serial killer convicted of the murder of six men has been executed in Florida's state prison. Aileen Wuornos, 46, died at 0947 local time (1347GMT) in the prison at Starke, after being injected with a lethal cocktail of drugs, according to a spoke
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Police hunting a suspected serial sniper in the American state of Maryland are reported to have found a taunting note near the site of one of the shootings. "Dear policeman, I am God," said the message, written on a tarot card and found, along with a shel
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) believes Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could respond with chemical or biological weapons if he thinks an American-led strike against him is imminent. But in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA director
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Pentagon officials said Wednesday they now believe the al Qaeda terrorist network was connected to an attack in Kuwait that left one U.S.
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Two Kuwaitis opened fire on U.S.
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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President Bush vowed to use the "full force and fury" of the U.S.
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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A maintenance crew is suspected of having accidentally started a fire which destroyed 10 houses and badly damaged 11 more near the Australian city of Sydney. More than 200 people were evacuated on Tuesday, as fires raged through tinder-dry scrub land in E
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Signs have emerged of a possible compromise on how to deal with Iraq between the United States and other permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. The French Foreign Ministry said a constructive dialogue was under way on a new ecurity Coun
World | October 9, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00
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Northern Ireland's First Minister David Trimble is meeting UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to demand punishment of the IRA's political ally Sinn Fein in a spy row. Two ministers from the Rev.
World | October 8, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Rebels and government forces in Ivory Coast are both claiming victory, after a fierce battle for the second city of Bouake. There is confusion about who is in overall control but rebels appear to have held on to the centre of the city of 500,000.
World | October 8, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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The French National Assembly has voted through a law making it an offence to drive while under the influence of drugs. Offenders will be liable to two years in jail and a fine of 4,500 euros.
World | October 8, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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A Dutch court has delayed its verdict on a nurse accused of killing 13 patients, ordering her to undergo psychiatric examination and demanding that the original murder inquiry be reopened. The judges also said they want more information from some witnesse
World | October 8, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to press on with army operations in the Gaza Strip, despite international condemnation of a raid that killed 14 Palestinians on Monday. Mr Sharon hailed the operation as a "success" - although he expressed reg
World | October 8, 2002, Tuesday // 00:00
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