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Western backed government takes
shape
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Abbas unveils new
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GAZA: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s
new emergency cabinet, basking in the support of the West, held its
first meeting on Monday since the bloody seizure of Gaza by Hamas
fighters.
New premier Salam Fayyad chaired
the meeting of the 12-member government in the West Bank town of
Ramallah amid Palestinian hopes a crippling Western aid freeze will
be lifted soon.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Factory boss shows
little remorse
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BEIJING: An alleged ringleader in
a slave labor scandal that has shocked China expressed little
remorse for beating workers and denied responsibility for a brutal
brickyard murder, state press said Monday.
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World’s oldest
man ‘sorry’ for long life
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TOKYO: A 111-year-old
Japanese engineer born at the end of the century was awarded
official recognition Monday as the world’s newest oldest man, and
joked he was sorry for still being alive.
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Analyst had lover
killed, lawyers charge
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian
political analyst ordered the killing of his former Mongolian lover,
a prosecutor said in his opening statements at a politically charged
murder trial on Monday.
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Would-be hero shot
dead in Melbourne
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MELBOURNE: A good
Samaritan who tried to rescue a woman being dragged by her hair on a
busy Melbourne street was shot dead Monday and two other people were
wounded when her attacker opened fire, police said.
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INBRIEF
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WASHINGTON: The White
House on Sunday insisted that President George W. Bush learned about
abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison from media reports, refuting a
former top general’s assertion that Bush likely knew...
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