Topic: International News

The new items published under this topic are as follows.

Articles: U.S. Army Will Wait Before Moving on Rebel Cleric

Posted by admin on Monday, April 19, 2004 - 03:20 AM

	NEAR NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces poised outside Najaf said on Monday they would allow time for talks before any attempt to enter the holy Iraqi city to seize a rebel cleric -- a move that could spark new unrest. Read full article: 'U.S. Army Will Wait Before Moving on Rebel Cleric'

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Articles: Bundesbank says Welteke has resigned

Posted by admin on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 08:05 AM

	FRANKFURT, April 16 (Reuters) - Bundesbank President Ernst Welteke has resigned following criticism about letting a commercial bank pay a luxury hotel bill for him and his family, the German central bank said on Friday. Read full article: 'Bundesbank says Welteke has resigned'

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Articles: Zapatero officially named Spain PM

Posted by admin on Friday, April 16, 2004 - 08:02 AM

	MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Socialist Party leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has won a parliamentary vote to become the Spanish prime minister. Read full article: 'Zapatero officially named Spain PM'

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Articles: Russians Set To Evacuate Iraq

Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 02:07 AM

	The Russian government will begin evacuating its citizens and workers from Iraq tomorrow, according to Russian news agencies. Special flights out of Baghdad and Kuwait will be organised by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. Read full article: 'Russians Set To Evacuate Iraq'

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Articles: Palestinians warn U.S. over commitments

Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 02:03 AM

	RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia warned the United States on Wednesday against granting excessive concessions to Ariel Sharon during the Israeli leader's visit to Washington. Read full article: 'Palestinians warn U.S. over commitments'

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Articles: Concorde, Lexington, Fallujah and Najaf: Why folks fightV

Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 02:01 AM

Ever since Anglo-American forces overthrew the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein a year ago and resistance attacks against US forces proved particularly persistent in the area of the town of Fallujah, the US media for the most part has tended to refer to the "restive" town of Fallujah. Well, it seems that Fallujah and other parts of Iraq are more than "restive" - they're downright rebellious. And so are many other cities in Iraq where young men for the past week have fought street battles with the American armed forces, eventually forcing the US to cease fire and allow Iraqi politicians to negotiate a resolution of the confrontations.

Read full article: 'Concorde, Lexington, Fallujah and Najaf: Why folks fightV'

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Articles: Freeh: FBI needed more resources

Posted by admin on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 01:59 AM

	Following are excerpts from Tuesday's testimony by former FBI Director Louis Freeh before the 9/11 commission: Richard Ben-Veniste, panel member: Read full article: 'Freeh: FBI needed more resources'

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Articles: Osama info deleted from second memo

Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 03:32 AM

WASHINGTON -- A day after President George W. Bush received a pre-Sept. 11, 2001, briefing on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida's effort to strike on U.S. soil, government executives received a similarly titled memo that excluded information about current threats and investigations, say federal officials. The Aug. 7, 2001 memo, known as the senior executive intelligence brief or SEIB, didn't mention the 70 FBI investigations into possible al-Qaida activity that Bush had been told of a day earlier in a memo entitled Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, the officials said yesterday.

Read full article: 'Osama info deleted from second memo'

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Articles: Aide to Shi'ite Cleric Sadr Held by U.S. in Baghdad

Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 03:30 AM

	BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An aide to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was detained by U.S. troops in a Baghdad hotel on Tuesday and taken away in an armored U.S. military vehicle, witnesses said. Read full article: 'Aide to Shi'ite Cleric Sadr Held by U.S. in Baghdad'

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Articles: U.S. soldier killed as U.S. troops head toward Najaf

Posted by admin on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 03:26 AM

	NAJAF, Iraq (AP) Gunmen attacked a large convoy of U.S. troops heading toward Najaf with gunfire and roadside bombs, killing one soldier and wounding two others and an American civilian contractor, officers in the convoy said Tuesday. Read full article: 'U.S. soldier killed as U.S. troops head toward Najaf'

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