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| Khamenei call raises truce hope |
| Iranian government officials are likely to drop their threats to resign after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei moved to defuse a row over parliamentary elections, government sources said today.
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| Basra Shias march for direct polls |
| Tens of thousands of demonstrators shouting: “No to America” marched today in a huge show of strength by the Shia majority against US plans for a transitional Iraqi governmen
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| Pervez backs woman |
| A 24-year-old Pakistani woman threatened with death after marrying without her family’s permission got special protection today on the orders of President Pervez Musharraf.
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| Iranian President Mohammad Khatami (left) with Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, a member of Iraq’s governing council, in Tehran. (AP) |
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