Archive for the January 1, 2005
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At least eight Maoist rebels and two civilians have been killed in three separate incidents in the ongoing bloody civil war in Nepal, police said Friday. Five rebels were killed in a clash with the
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Egyptian police have arrested 80 people and imposed a curfew in a town in upper Egypt following clashes between Muslims and Christians during which one Muslim youth died. A night-time curfew was imposed in the
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Aircraft, naval vessels and trucks struggled on Friday to deliver aid around stricken southern Asia as the death toll passed more than 124,000 from a tsunami which darkened the world's New Year. The emergency relief
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Amid singing and whoops of joy, Sudan's government and southern rebels signed the final chapters of a peace deal on Friday, paving the way for a comprehensive accord ending Africa's longest-running civil war. Middle-ranking officials
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The US Justice Department released a new memo on Friday to replace a controversial document outlining how to avoid violating US and international terror statutes while interrogating prisoners. In a December 30 memorandum, released early
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A Moroccan magazine, testing the limits of press freedom in the Muslim country, has revealed King Mohammed earns $50,000 a month and his court has annual expenses of $277 million. TelQuel has a reputation for
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Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigned from his post Friday and admitted his appeals over a presidential rerun vote were unlikely to be granted, but he stopped short of conceding the poll to opposition leader
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Seven people were killed in a fire caused by an exploding firecracker in the northern Philippines on Friday, police said, as the country's noisy and often dangerous New Year's Eve celebrations got under way. About
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Chinese President Hu Jintao marked New Year's Eve on Friday with a speech warning against moves towards independence on the island of Taiwan and calling for deeper reform of the booming economy. In an address
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A suicide car bomber killed seven people, five of them Iraqi National Guards, near the northern town of Baiji on Friday, as the insurgent campaign to wreck the January 30 election gave no sign of
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