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Bush remarks draw Iran, Iraq close?
MANAMA (BAHRAIN), JULY 14.By his remarks that tacitly support Iran's restive reformers, the U.S. President, George Bush, may have set in motion a chain of events that could have larger implications for the region. Mr. Bush's statement that ...

A narrow escape for Chirac
PARIS, JULY 14.The French President, Jacques Chirac, today narrowly escaped an assassination attempt during his inspection of the military parade in Paris to mark Bastille Day, France's national day. Police said a 25-year-old gunman, know to ...

Straw `horrified' by attack on civilians
LONDON, JULY 14. The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has strongly condemned Saturday's terrorist attack in Jammu widely seen here as a setback to international efforts to defuse Indo-Pak. tensions. A senior U.K.-based Kashmiri separatist ...

Constitutional status for Accountability Bureaus
ISLAMABAD, JULY 14. As the political parties and civil society of Pakistan reel under the shock of the controversial package of proposed amendments to the Constitution, the Musharraf regime today unveiled what was called the `second instalment' ...

Supersonic jet crashes in test
WOOMERA (AUSTRALIA), JULY 14.A scale model of a Japanese supersonic jetliner crashed and exploded in the central Australian desert shortly after it was launched on Sunday on the back of a booster rocket, witnesses said. The disastrous end to ...

Israeli jets attack targets in Gaza
GAZA CITY, JULY 14.Israeli aircraft fired missiles and destroyed a building in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, injuring about 10 Palestinians, witnesses and hospital officials said. Three Israeli helicopters and two fighter planes were in ...

Freed Tibetan scholar reaches U.S.
BEIJING, JULY 14.A Tibetan teacher believed to be China's longest-held political prisoner arrived in the United States on Saturday, freed nine years early from a prison sentence on medical grounds after months of intensive negotiations with a ...