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International
Investigation: The global terror network
There were shadows in the rocks. As the 12 United States Special Forces soldiers arrived at a remote mountain region in eastern Afghanistan last week, the shadows took form and started moving, turning into people. The Americans, accompanied by troops from Pakistan and Predator drones scouring the hills ahead, finally got a glimpse of the prey they had been hunting for months.
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Afghanistan
US Afghan allies committed massacre
Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the United States-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was on Saturday night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the United Nations.
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Iraq
Iraq: Blair and Bush seek new UN backing
The United Nations is to be given a lead role in post-occupation Iraq under British and American plans to shore up crumbling international support for the continuing military presence in the country. UK officials said there will be a sustained push for a fresh UN resolution 'mandating' the continued military presence in Iraq.
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Pakistan
Taliban warns of more attacks
The Taliban on Friday threatened to launch reprisals against United States and Pakistani forces if they did not call off their pursuit of the Afghan militant movement and its al-Qaeda allies in the mountains of Pakistan's South Waziristan region.
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Pakistan
Al-Qaeda deputy 'trapped in hideout'
Pakistani forces were on Thursday night poised for a dawn assault on a mountain stronghold that officials in the capital, Islamabad, said could be the hideout of Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader. "[Because of] the resistance being offered by the people there, we feel that there may be a high-value target," President Pervez Musharraf told CNN television.
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United States
New 'fake stories' row hits US media
America's media, already reeling from the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal, has been rocked by the revelation that yet another top reporter has been making up news stories. Jack Kelley, senior foreign correspondent for USA Today and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, has been faking major foreign news stories for several years, the paper confessed last week.
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United States
US firms try to block cheap Aids drugs
The United States, under pressure from its giant pharmaceutical companies, is trying to undermine the use in poor countries of cheap, copycat Aids drugs, made by "pirate", generic companies but validated by the World Health Organisation, campaigners claim.
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Serbia
Nato acts on Kosovo terror
Nato rushed 1 000 extra peacekeepers, including 600 British troops, to Kosovo on Thursday amid fears that the worst day of ethnic violence between Albanians and Serbs since the 1999 war might lead to an explosion of pogroms and fighting in the region.
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United States
Chomsky backs 'Bush-lite' Kerry
Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru, on Friday gave his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic party's presidential contender, John Kerry, calling him "Bush-lite", but a "fraction" better than his rival.
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Italy
Baby given eight new organs in record transplant
An Italian baby with a life-threatening muscle disease has undergone a medical first -- a successful eight-organ transplant, her surgeon said on Friday. Alessia Di Matteo, aged eight months and from Genoa, received the liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, pancreas, spleen and two kidneys from a single donor, who was also an infant.
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Spain
Spanish police arrest five suspects over bombings
Spanish police arrested five more suspects in the Madrid train attack yesterday, with one reportedly believed to have been part of the team of six or more who planted the bombs that killed 202 commuters last week. The five men held on Thursday were said to be Moroccan or north African in origin, with one of them a Spanish national.
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China
China weighs response to Chen Shui-bian shooting
The Chinese government found itself in a tricky position on Friday, debating how to respond to the shooting of a Taiwanese president it does not recognise and wants out of office. None of China's state-run press reported the story hours after it broke.
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International
West just can't leave Middle East
Why are we in the Middle East? This is the real question that the Madrid bombs pose for Europe and the United States, and for the nations of that region themselves. The struggle in which we are all caught up is, ultimately, neither about Iraq nor about terrorism narrowly defined.
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