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Crackdown on Palestinian hardliners
It's clear that the emergency
status was announced by the Palestinian side in order to save Arafat and
also partly because of outside pressure on the Palestinian leadership to
move ahead and respond to the Israeli demands calling for action against
the resistance groups.
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Myanmar’s road to democracy
Effective management of the security situation
in the North-East and Myanmar’s strategic importance as a land and sea
bridge to South-East Asia are some of the factors that have influenced
India’s decision to deepen engagement with it.
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Not by bread alone
The people from the sub-continent, despite
being the key to Riyadh’s progress, have no privileges, no security of
tenure and no right to residence. Whereas Americans, employed at similar
jobs, have a fixed tenure and comfortable living.
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Roh for referendum
Some believe that President Roh
is using the referendum to help his group do better in the April
parliamentary elections and to shift blame to parliament for his aide's
involvement in a big funding scandal.
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India, Tunisia discuss bilateral
issues, reforms
At the invitation of her Indian
counterpart Vinod Khanna, the Tunisian Minister of State for Foreign
Affairs Saida Chtioui visited New Delhi recently and had intensive
discussions with different government officials and MPs.
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A Shi’ite warning to America
Ammar Abdul Aziz al-Hakim,
white-turbaned, with horn-rimmed glasses, is polished, soft-spoken, as
he sits on a cushion in a secluded chamber to receive Asia Times Online
at the Najaf office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in
Iraq (SCIRI)
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