President George W. Bush acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that he had miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq, the New York Times reported. The paper quoted Bush as saying during a 30-minute interview that

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Former British leader Margaret Thatcher is fretting over the arrest of her millionaire son Mark in South Africa but believes he will be found innocent of charges of bankrolling a planned coup, a friend said

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US President George W. Bush, locked in an election year battle over national security, on Friday will give the post of CIA director some of the broad authority that the September 11 commission envisioned for

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The proposed deployment of Muslim peacekeeping troops in Iraq under the United Nations' banner might not be possible because there was no sign that the United States was ready to relinquish control, Malaysia said Friday.

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Friday's closing prices of New York cotton in US cents/lb. ==================================================================== MONTHS P/SETTLEMENT OPEN HIGH LOW SETTLEMENT CHANGE ==================================================================== OCT 04 48.40 48.00 48.20 47.12 47.90 -0.50 DEC 04 49.08 48.78 49.00 47.80 48.44 -0.64

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Friday's closing prices of New York cotton in US cents/lb. ==================================================================== MONTHS P/SETTLEMENT OPEN HIGH LOW SETTLEMENT CHANGE ==================================================================== OCT 04 48.40 48.00 48.20 47.12 47.90 -0.50 DEC 04 49.08 48.78 49.00 47.80 48.44 -0.64

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The Indian rupee ended with marginal gains on Friday as anticipated demand for dollars from oil refiners and other companies who usually step up purchases at the end of the month failed to emerge, dealers

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Sterling fell against the broadly stronger dollar but managed to gain versus the sliding euro on Friday as the single currency took the brunt of the greenback's revival. The dollar firmed against European currencies after

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The dollar erased earlier losses to stand steady near recent three-week highs against the euro on Friday as investors became reluctant to take big bets ahead of US data and a speech by Federal Reserve

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India's key share index snapped a three-day rally on Friday as investors fretted about the impact on output and prices of a nationwide truckers' strike which is about to enter its second week with no

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