MIDDLE EAST: Arafat removal would increase violence

Israeli officials have this week dismissed Palestinian National Authority President Yasser...

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KENYA: Constitutional reform strains coalition unity

Odhiambo Mbai, a committee chairman at the National Constitutional Conference, was murdered on...

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A US soldier and an Iraqi police chief were killed yesterday in the 'Sunni triangle', where...

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Swedish voters yesterday rejected the euro by 56.1% to 41.8%. The decisive nature of the 'no'...

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A car bomb attack on a US intelligence target in the northern city of Irbil this week killed one...

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President Sapamurat Niyazov signed a decree on September 8 creating a state commission to combat...

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President Yasser Arafat's nominee for the post Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Korei (Abu Ala),...

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The presidential election campaign opened in Chechnya on September 5, amid a spate of terrorist...

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The prominent Iraqi Shia leader, Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, was killed in a suicide bomb...

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The authorities announced yesterday that five paramilitary policemen had been detained in the...

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