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Schroeder loses trust vote
German president asked to dissolve parliament
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder lost a parliamentary confidence vote he engineered yesterday, raising the prospect of early elections and a widely predicted change in government.
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Security alert in Lanka after cop killings
Tigers utter 2-week deadline
Government forces stepped up security in Sri Lanka's restive east yesterday, a day after suspected Tiger rebels killed three soldiers and issued a two-week deadline for the government to increase their
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Syria a hindrance to ME stability: US
Washington freezes assets of 2 Syrian officials
Syria's support of Palestinian extremist groups remains an obstacle to achieving Middle East peace, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
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Tax debacle adds to Arroyo agony
Philippine President Gloria Arroyo, fighting off opposition demands to quit over alleged vote-rigging, suffered a further setback Friday when the Supreme Court suspended the expansion of an unpopularconsumption
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Hu, Putin vow security, cooperation at summit
The Chinese and Russian presidents held a summit yesterday aimed at strengthening security in volatile Central Asia and toughening economic ties between these two giants once seen as the West's main threat
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Bush wants answers on Iran leader's past
President Bush said on Thursday he wanted answers on whether Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a leader in the 1979 US Embassy siege as some former hostages have said but Iranians have denied Several
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Congo confirms 10 dead in rally shootings
Ten people were shot dead Thursday when police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) broke up opposition rallies in a number of cities, a senior government figure said.
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