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[/url]AP - U.S. and Iraqi commanders are increasingly critical of a policy that lets Iraqi soldiers leave their units virtually at will � essentially deserting with no punishment. They blame the lax rule for draining the Iraqi ranks to confront the insurgency � in some cases by 30 percent or even half. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - The co-chairs of the international donor process for Sri Lanka condemned the latest violence there, and called for planned peace talks to go ahead despite a rebel call to delay them. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Nepal's political opposition on Friday rejected the king's plea for dialogue and vowed to continue pro-democracy protests that have filled the streets to demand the monarch's ouster. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Security conditions that have previously prevented the UN refugee agency from working in Russia's war-torn province of Chechnya have improved and the body would like to open its own office there as soon as possible, the head of the agency said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - A military court Thursday convicted a British air force doctor of disobeying orders and sentenced him to eight months in prison after he called the Iraq war illegal and refused to return for a third tour of duty. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - China has announced a limited relaxation of its forex controls, just days before President Hu Jintao was scheduled to go to the United States on a trip expected to focus on currency and trade issues. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - The United States and Japan have a good chance of wrapping up a deal to reorganize American troops in Japan by early May, but must first resolve a dispute over how much Tokyo will pay to shift Marines to Guam, a U.S. official said on Friday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Scared of venturing out of his Baghdad home at night because of almost daily bombings and kidnappings, Ahmed Youssif is doing behind closed doors what he cannot do outside -- smoking shisha. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Iran intends to move toward large-scale uranium enrichment involving 54,000 centrifuges, the country's deputy nuclear chief said Wednesday, signaling its resolve to expand a program the international community has insisted it halt. 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 - The two top Republicans in Congress, confronted with internal party divisions as well as large public demonstrations, said Tuesday they intend to pass immigration legislation that does not subject illegal immigrants to prosecution as felons. 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]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]AP - Death squads responsible for sectarian killings in Iraq are not linked to the government but to private security forces, Iraq's interior minister said in an interview broadcast Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Prosecutors in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui are prepared Wednesday to play a recording from the cockpit voice recorder of United Air Lines Flight 93, which crashed in a western Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001, after passengers attempted to take control of the plane from hijackers. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - A British Air Force doctor on trial for refusing to go to Iraq because he thought the war was illegal said on Wednesday he believed the United States was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany. Link To Original Article
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[/url]The Christian Science Monitor - Time and again this week, President Bush and his team reiterated their position on Iran's nuclear program: America wants a diplomatic solution, and any suggestion it is moving toward an inevitable strike on Iran is "wild speculation." Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Saddam Hussein and one of his co-defendants have refused to provide handwriting samples for experts to authenticate signatures said to be theirs on key documents in their trial, the chief judge said Wednesday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - America's trade deficit showed a bigger-than-expected improvement in February as the politically sensitive imbalance with China dropped to the lowest level in nearly a year. Link To Original Article
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