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| US troops, militia fight pitched battles |
| Iraqi political and religious leaders trying to end a radical Shia uprising flew into Najaf today, where US troops and militia fought pitched battles near the country’s holiest Islamic sites.
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| Terror charges |
| Britain charged eight men today with conspiracy to murder and other terrorism charges, some of them relating to plans of US buildings that could have been used to organise at
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| Death for stealing China relics |
| The head of a relics protection department at a former Chinese imperial palace has been sentenced to death for stealing the artefacts he was meant to protect, the Xinhua news
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| Militant’s father pleads for fair trial |
| The father of a computer engineer detained in Pakistan last month for suspected links with al Qaida filed a petition today calling for his son to be produced in court and urg
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| Sumatran tigers are taken for a walk by their
keepers at a Safari Park in Cisarua, West Java, during a carnival marking Indonesia’s
59th Independence Day. (Reuters) |
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