Kyrgyz troops stormed jails and took them back under control on Tuesday, leaving four inmates dead, after prisoners staged a wave of riots and break-out attempts in the Central Asian state. At Prison No 31,

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Iraqi election officials defied a new upsurge of violence and held a televised lottery on Tuesday to determine the order in which more than 200 parties will appear on ballot papers at December 15 elections.

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US President George W. Bush's national security adviser warned Monday that a hasty US withdrawal from Iraq would embolden extremists who seek "the eventual destruction of Israel." In remarks prepared for delivery to the annual

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Thirty years after the big screen disappeared from Saudi Arabia, cinema is making a tentative comeback in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom. Authorities in Riyadh plan to hold public screenings of children's cartoons this week as

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US President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday for $7.1 billion in emergency funding to prepare the United States for a possible pandemic of avian influenza. The total includes requests of $1.2 billion to

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Sterling shuffled in narrow ranges against major currencies on Tuesday ahead of a meeting by the US Federal Reserve that is almost certain to further erode the pound's interest rate advantage over the dollar. Sterling

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The dollar trod water against the euro on Tuesday but hit a 2-year high versus the yen as investors awaited a near certain, 12th straight rise in US interest rates later in the day. The

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Activity slowed to a trickle in European credit on Tuesday as several markets in continental Europe closed for a holiday and traders in London waited for a US interest rate decision from Washington and car

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Activity slowed to a trickle in European credit on Tuesday as several markets in continental Europe closed for a holiday and traders in London waited for a US interest rate decision from Washington and car

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US stocks declined on Tuesday after Dell Inc, the world's No 1 personal computer maker, cut its revenue outlook and as investors anticipated the Federal Reserve's 12th straight interest-rate increase. Shares of Dell fell 8.4

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