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Iraq ‘endgame’ looms but
troop pullout risky-US
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WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the
“endgame” is now in sight in Iraq but warned of the costly
consequences of withdrawing US forces too hastily.
“I fear that frustration over slow progress
and dismay over sacrifices already made may result in decisions that
are gratifying in the short term but very costly to us in the long
term,” he said.
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Clinton to halt
Obama, revives voided primaries
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MIAMI: Invoking Democratic nightmares of the 2000 Florida
presidential recount, Hillary Clinton demanded the revival of two
voided primaries as she sought to halt Barack Obama’s march toward
the party’s nomination.
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UN food aid breaks through Myanmar
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BANGKOK: The first of 10 helicopters contracted by the UN’s World
Food Program (WFP) arrived in Myanmar on Thursday to help speed
relief to remote villages hit by Cyclone Nargis, a spokesman for the
agency said.
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Muslims still storming Indonesian
churches
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JAKARTA: Muslims have stormed a church in Indonesia to force it to
close down, a resident and police said Thursday, in the latest
incident of religious intolerance in the archipelago nation.
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‘Commandante’ Che Guevara graces
Cannes
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CANNES, France: Revolutionary idol Ernesto “Che” Guevara stormed
into Cannes in a more than four-hour movie offered up by
Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh, dissecting the rise and
fall of the world’s most celebrated guerrilla leader.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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DILI: East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta is confident about his young country's future, despite lingering poverty and swirling mistrust over rebel attacks three months ago that left him near death.
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