 | Hundreds of Guatemalan indigenous people attended a vigil and a Mayan ceremony in Tecpan city to protest the visit by US President George W. Bush to sacred sites Monday.
The US president, who arrived in Guatemala Sunday for a 23-hour visit, is... More |
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 | The deputy leader of the British parliament resigned from his post Monday in protest against plans by the Labour government to renew Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.
The move by Nigel Griffith, MP for a constituency in Edinburgh,... More |
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 | Libya will soon sign a deal with the US which will help Tripoli to develop a nuclear power plant.
The Washington-Tripoli agreement on the nuclear programme to be signed soon got approval by Libya's General People's Committee (GPC), or... More |
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 | A 12-year-old Peruvian has been admitted by a university in Lima to study mathematics, university authorities said.
Dante Rosales, a great fan of history, gained the 18th highest test score among the 3,800 applicants for the 78 places on offer,... More |
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 | Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto says "nothing could be further from the truth" than the long held western perception that President Pervez Musharraf's regime is the only thing standing between the West and nuclear-armed... More |
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 | UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah has urged the international community to exert more efforts to revive the peace process in the Middle East and to contain crises that may have negative impact on the countries of the region.
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 | Ayman al-Zawahiri, number-two in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, accused the Saudi leadership of being "the deputies of the Americans" in the Arab world.
In a video message broadcast late Sunday by Al Jazeera news channel, al-Zawahiri attacked... More |
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 | One Palestinian was killed and another wounded during a firefight between militants of the rival Fatah and Hamas movements Sunday in the northern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses said that an eruption of intense gunfire was heard in the town of Beit... More |
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 | The central offices of major political parties in Bangladesh were locked up Sunday as the combined security forces geared up a countrywide drive against corruption, officials said.
The offices were shut down after interim government chief... More |
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 | Colombia has witnessed large-scale protests during the week ahead of President George W. Bush's visit to Bogota Sunday as many came out in the streets to oppose the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US.
Security measures in the capital were... More |
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