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| Bush trumpets America’s world role |
| President George W. Bush, buffeted by slumping approval ratings over Iraq, visited the campaign battleground of West Virginia yesterday to deliver an Independence Day message brimming with confidence and optimism about the US role on the world stage.
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| Ex-general leads Jakarta democracy race |
| Retired general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took the lead today in Indonesia’s first direct presidential election that strengthened democracy in the world’s most populous Muslim
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| Russia oil giant in $1-billion default |
| Russian oil giant Yukos, its main owner on trial and facing a huge tax bill that could break it, said today that a group of creditor banks had declared it in default on a $1-
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| Winnie wins jail respite |
| South African anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela avoided going to jail today when a court reduced her prison sentence for fraud to a suspended sentence, but she vo
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An Iranian riot policeman looks disapprovingly at a woman whose scarf does not fully cover her hair as he monitors traffic on a Tehran intersection o ... | Read
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