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    Merger sets stage for major clash in Iraq
    MANAMA, OCT. 18.A key Islamist militant group accused of operating from Fallujah has announced its merger with the Al-Qaeda, setting the stage for a major confrontation with American occupation forces in the embattled Iraqi city. The Tawhid Wal ...

    Call to try Blair in World Court
    LONDON, OCT. 18. Up to 70,000 persons from more than 70 countries rallied yesterday in the centre of London against the Iraq war, calling for troops to be pulled out and (the British Prime Minister) Tony Blair to be tried in the international ...

    Britain denies U.S. pressure on troops
    LONDON, OCT. 18. The British Government has denied that the proposed move to re-deploy hundreds of its troops in Iraq from their current base in Basra to the more volatile Baghdad region and place them under U.S. command is part of a "political ...

    Hostage issue will not hit ties, Pakistan told
    ISLAMABAD, OCT. 18.China has assured Pakistan that the recent killing of a Chinese engineer, who was held hostage in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, would not affect cooperation between the two countries. This assurance was conveyed by ...

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    Vietnam to back India on ASEM membership
    HANOI, OCT. 18. The Vietnamese Prime Minister, Phan Van Khai, today assured the visiting External Affairs Minister, K. Natwar Singh, that Hanoi "will help India to join the ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting)." Mr. Singh, who called on Mr. Khai, ...

    India, Vietnam give priority to energy, IT cooperation
    HANOI, OCT. 18. India and Vietnam today blueprinted a three-year action plan to expand bilateral cooperation in diverse fields, even as the 12th meeting of the Joint Commission identified energy and information technology as possible priority ...



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