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Millions stage anti-terror rallies across Spain; ETA denies responsibility (World, 70 articles)
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Spanish police investigating Thursday's bomb explosions, which killed 199 people and wounded more than 1,400, released photographs on Friday of five alleged members of Eta they believe have been planning a series of terrorist attacks on the Spanish capital. As investigators learned more about the bombs that ripped through trains killing and maiming, millions of people across Spain gathered in chilly rain to protest the terror attacks and mourn the victims Friday. Investigators on Friday hunted for the bombers who blew up four trains, killing at least 198 people, while Spaniards lit candles and left flowers outside a station and the nation mourned the victims of its worst terrorist attack ever. A key target of the Spanish government's investigation into bombings that killed almost 200 people in Madrid on Thursday has denied responsibility, Spanish media said Friday. Ten terrorist bombs tore through trains and stations along a commuter line at the height of the morning rush hour Thursday, killing more than 190 people and wounding 1,200 in the country's worst terrorist attack. Spanish authorities quickly blamed a Basque separatist group that has waged a 30-year campaign of terror in Spain and that recently vowed to attack train stations to disrupt Sunday's national election.
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Iraqi police, not impostors, may have killed Americans (World, 25 articles)
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A roadside bomb in Saddam Hussein's hometown killed two American soldiers and wounded four Saturday, a day after the military said two other soldiers died in a similar explosion elsewhere in Iraq's so-called Sunni Triangle. Iraqi police suspected in coalition killings BAGHDAD, Iraq - A top U.S. officer says four members of the new Iraqi police force are suspected of killing two American officials this week. Gunmen killed two Iraqi women who worked in a laundry for the U.S.-led coalition a day after the first killings of civilian coalition officials, the occupation authority said yesterday.
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Aristide in Jamaica trip furore (World, 26 articles)
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Haiti's new premier said Friday that ousted Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's planned Caribbean trip could threaten efforts to stabilize the country still in turmoil two weeks after the leader left amid a popular rebellion. Interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue was sworn in Friday as the country's prime minister, promising to unite the country after months of bloodshed and political strife that led to the ouster of Aristide. U.S. Marines raided a house in search of weapons yesterday, trying to shore up a fragile peace in Haiti as the ousted president planned a return to the area from exile in Africa.
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Reactions to Impeachment Reveal Rift in South Korea (World, 22 articles)
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The pro Roh Uri Party which had tried to block the vote by commandeering the rostrum also announced that its 47 lawmakers might resign en masse to protest. President Roh Moo hyun was stripped of his executive powers in an unprecedented impeachment vote Friday in an unprecedented impeachment vote that rattled a government already struggling with the north korean nuclear crisis and a sluggish economic recovery. Earlier Friday a man attempted to drive up the steep stairs into the National Assembly building in protest.
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Hamas says Palestinians must plan for Gaza before it's too late (World, 14 articles)
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Camp David does not permit the presence of heavy Egyptian security along the border, which prevents providing security after a withdrawal, Egyptian Information Minister Safwar al-Sharif was quoted as saying on Friday. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's national security team has recommended that Israel withdraw from virtually all of the Gaza Strip and up 24 West Bank settlements, a government official said Thursday, as U.S. diplomats sought more details on the proposal. Egypt will host talks between Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's government , Islamic militant groups and other Palestinian factions on how to control the Gaza Strip after a proposed Israeli withdrawal, an aide to the Palestinian leader said today.
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In India-Pakistan match, a pitch for friendship (World, 5 articles)
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Thousands of cricket fans have begun streaming into Karachi's national stadium for the first game of India's historic cricket tour of Pakistan. Security is tight for the highly anticipated match, with 5,000 police officers posted at the stadium and nearby roads blocked, Reuters reported. India's Supreme Court has answered the prayers of millions of cricket fans by ordering a cable firm to allow state TV to show the opening Pakistan tour game.
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'We are an al-Qaeda family': Khadr son (World, 4 articles)
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In a documentary aired on CBC's The National, Abdurahman Khadr said his father was old friends with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and that his brothers attended terrorist training camps. The operation, however, is " about more than one person according to Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty. Hilferty said the operation was in effect a continuation of tactics already being used, such as intensive patrolling, village searches and impromptu checkpoints.
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China to recruit female astronauts (World, 6 articles)
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Elementary-school textbooks in the world's most populous nation still proclaim that the structure can be seen by the naked eye of an orbiting cosmonaut. The myth was shattered upon Yang Liwei's return from a 21 1/2-hour space jaunt last year, so schoolbooks will be rewritten, the Beijing Times newspaper reported Friday. Chinese women will be recruited as potential astronauts for space voyages starting next year, with candidates chosen from mainland China as well as its territories Hong Kong and Macau, the government said Friday.
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Sinn Fein 'exclusion considered' (World, 5 articles)
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Speaking on Radio Ulster's Inside Politics programme on Saturday, Congressman Jim Walsh said he did not believe the recent alleged abduction bid in Belfast city centre was ordered by the IRA leadership. This will happen once Northern Ireland's politicians return from their annual pilgrimage to Washington to take part in the US administration's St Patrick's Day festivities. The notion of fast-tracking the review rings hollow for those who have been monitoring the glacial pace of developments at Stormont.
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UN probes Rwanda 'crash' recorder (World, 4 articles)
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The recorder was discovered at the United Nations on Wednesday in a filing cabinet in the department's Air Safety Unit 10 years after it was sent by diplomatic pouch to U.N. headquarters. There was speculation the recorder might have been from the plane that was shot down on April 6, 1994 while carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and his counterpart from Burundi. In what UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called a " first-class foul-up the United Nations said Thursday it has discovered a black box sent from Rwanda after a 1994 plane crash that unleashed a genocide in the east African nation.
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Zimbabwe rules on 'mercenaries' (World, 6 articles)
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Zimbabwe has threatened to execute some 60 suspected mercenaries detained this week and accused U.S., British and Spanish spy agencies of involvement in a plot to topple Equatorial Guinea's government. Mr Mann , who runs a private security firm in South Africa, was reportedly arrested in Harare last Sunday as he waited for a plane carrying the men. Zimbabwe is to charge more than 60 men said to be mercenaries with plotting to " destabilise Zimbabwean Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi has said.
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Britons freed from Guantanamo allege beatings (World, 10 articles)
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Tarek Dergoul from London, also condemned the British government for allowing his continued detention in Bagram and Kandahar in Afghanistan and then the US base in Cuba and called for the release of remaining detainees. The first of five British men freed this week from the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, broke his silence Friday to tell of alleged torture and humiliation suffered at the hands of his jailers. The five Britons released from Guantanamo Bay face a bewildering and uncertain future as they seek to settle back into lives derailed by their arrest and detention.
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Iran abruptly cancels U.N. nuclear inspections (World, 7 articles)
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Libya used technology and know-how acquired on the black market to process uranium into a small amount of plutonium, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Friday. A Japanese company supplied Libya decades ago with a key piece of the technology needed to make nuclear weapons, and the Japanese government must have known about the transaction, diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday. One diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, described the 1984 sale of a uranium conversion plant as a "flagrant example" of the failure of export controls meant to keep such equipment away from rogue nations and terrorists.
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Assembly jobs move across Wales (World, 4 articles)
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Hundreds of Welsh assembly jobs will be moved from Cardiff and spread across the south Wales valleys , mid and Scotland in a move to spread economic benefit, it has been announced. On Thursday, Finance Minister Sue Essex outlined details of the civil servants switch to a north Wales HQ along the coastal strip of Conwy, a mid Scotland base in Aberystwyth as well as 300 jobs going to Merthyr. Speaking in Conwy, Essex said: " I plan to make a further announcement on specific functions for both offices by the summer, after consulting staff and partnership bodies.
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3 sailors dead, dozens hurt after SC bus crash (World, 4 articles)
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A bus carrying Navy personnel to a wreath-laying ceremony collided with a tractor-trailer Friday and another bus veered off the highway, authorities said. About 100 people were aboard the two buses when the accident happened around 8 a.m., said Sid Gaulden , a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety.. One of the buses crossed the center line and hit a northbound tractor-trailer and a car head-on, said Highway Patrol Lance Cpl. Paul Brouthers.
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- (World, 4 articles)
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Serbians poured out in thousands to Belgrade's cemetery on Friday to lay flowers and light candles in the memory of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the republic's first non-communist prime minister who was assassinated a year ago. Earlier Friday, members of Djindjic's reformist Democratic Party unveiled a plaque in a part of the Republic Square that will carry the slain premier's name. A year after an assassin's bullet killed Zoran Djindjic, Serbia's former prime minister and architect of the country's most radical reforms, the full extent of his loss is beginning to be felt.
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