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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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[/url]AP - The Bush administration remains interested in limited talks with Iran on its activities in Iraq, but no meeting is scheduled, a State Department spokesman said Friday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - The top U.S. military officer on Tuesday defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld against three retired generals demanding his ouster, and denied that the United States invaded Iraq without sufficiently weighing its plan. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A bomb has ripped through a vegetable market in northeastern Sri Lanka, killing 13 people in the latest of a series of blasts which have cast a cloud over upcoming peace talks. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Australia made a solid start as they sought to chase down a target of 307 after dismissing Bangladesh cheaply on the fourth day of the first Test. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Shiite politicians failed Tuesday to resolve the deadlock over their candidate for prime minister, which is blocking formation of a new government. A bomb exploded on a minibus in a Shiite area, killing three people and underscoring Iraq's grave security crisis. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Pump prices for gasoline are rising and likely will average about a 25 cents a gallon more than last summer, but not enough to keep people home. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - A doctor in Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) denied five charges of failing to comply with orders when he refused to go to Iraq because he believed military action there was unlawful. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Center-left challenger Romano Prodi claimed an outright electoral victory Tuesday over Premier Silvio Berlusconi before official results were in, but the slim margin could return Italy to political paralysis and instability. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Ibrahim al-Jaafari's stubborn fight to stay on as Iraq's prime minister looked all but over on Tuesday after a party in his main Shi'ite alliance offered to name a replacement to break a four-month-old political deadlock. Link To Original Article
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