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[/url]AP - Mobs of youths rioted in this southern city for a second straight day Wednesday to protest a suicide bombing that killed at least 57 people, which a top Pakistani official said was aimed at "eliminating" the leadership of a moderate Sunni Muslim group. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Australian Prime Minister John Howard has been summoned for questioning at an official inquiry into the payment of sanctions-busting bribes to Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed 4.1 percent in February to $65.7 billion, as imports fell by the largest amount in nearly a year and the bilateral trade gap with China shrank 22.7 percent, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]The Christian Science Monitor - With shades drawn and candles burning, a small band of Serbian Orthodox followers meets here every Sunday morning in a little fourth-floor apartment for a semisecret liturgy. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed on Wednesday but no defendants were present and the session was expected to be brief. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Fresh demands from the Shi'ite Alliance over the creation of an Iraqi government on Wednesday threatened to prolong a political paralysis that Washington says is playing into the hands of insurgents. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Police on Wednesday arrested three people suspected of aiding Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, who was captured a day earlier after more than four decades on the run. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Gunmen in Baghdad hunted down three different government employees and shot them dead on their way to work Wednesday, police said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Russia called on Iran to halt immediately all uranium enrichment work and attacked Tehran's announcement that it had successfully enriched uranium for nuclear fuel as a "step in the wrong direction," news agencies reported. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The acting parliament speaker said Wednesday he will convene the Iraqi legislature next week to push forward the formation of a new government stalled over the issue of who will serve as prime minister. Meanwhile, a series of car bombs in three Iraqi cities left at least eight people dead and dozens wounded. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The Bush administration publicly asserted that two trailers captured by U.S. troops in Iraq in May 2003 were mobile "biological laboratories" even after U.S. intelligence officials had evidence that it was not true, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Iraq's interior minister has acknowledged the existence of so-called death squads within certain security forces but denied any link with his own ministry. Link To Original Article
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AP - Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine worth more than $100 million from a commercial plane arriving from Venezuela, Mexico's Defense Department announced Tuesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Japan is resisting a U.S request to send civilians to southern Iraq to work on a reconstruction project after Tokyo withdraws its troops from the country because it is too risky, a Japanese news agency reported Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Romano Prodi insisted that he could reunite a bitterly divided Italy as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came under intense pressure to accept defeat after the country's closest vote in living memory. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - Egyptian authorities have released some 950 detained former members of the militant Gama'a al-Islamiya (Islamic Group) in the past six weeks, including 300 on Tuesday, police sources said on Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - The Bush administration claimed trailers captured soon after the fall of Baghdad proved Iraq had weapons of mass destruction even though U.S. intelligence officials had strong evidence that was not the case, The Washington Post reported. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Pakistani troops are on high alert for the funeral of a Sunni Muslim leader who was among 57 people killed in the country's worst suicide bombing for nearly two decades. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Thousands of shoppers thronged the opening of IKEA's biggest Asian store in Beijing on Wednesday as the Swedish furniture maker launched a bid to expand its share of China's thriving home improvement market. Link To Original Article
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Several ballot boxes have been found in Rome, officials said, a day after Premier Silvio Berlusconi rejected the center-left's victory claim and demanded a recount. Link To Original Article
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