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=09=09=09=09Arms race revisited?
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nuclear power =01&many times over=018 by putting multiple warheads on its m=
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=09=09=09=09See article: Doing the normal thing E+
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=09=09=09=09A former foreign minister of France, Roland Dumas, found guilty=
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in the Elf affair in President Fran?ois Mitterrand=01,s day, claimed two of=
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today=01,s ministers, including Hubert V,drine, the foreign minister, had k=
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full well what was going on.
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=09=09=09=09The patchy truce between Israel and the Palestinians continued,=
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sides blamed the other for not sticking to the bargain. Colin Powell, Ameri=
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s secretary of state, will be returning to the region. Israel reacted angri=
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to a BBC documentary about the possibility that Ariel Sharon, Israel=01,s p=
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=09=09=09=09See article: More tomatoes, please E+
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=09=09=09=09Iraq claimed that 23 people had been killed when American and B=
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against the Delhi government=01,s truce with Naga separatists in the state.
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=09=09=09=09See article: The swelling anger of Algerians E+
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=09=09=09=09See article: Hillary, you won the war E+
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=09=09=09=09NATO said that, if there were a peace deal in Macedonia, it wou=
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ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
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r prison sentence=20
for stealing four biscuits. The man, jailed under California=01,s =01&three=
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alleged frauds in a sale to Elf by Ercros, a Spanish firm of which he was=
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its second federal execution. Unlike McVeigh, Juan Raul Garza, a drug=20
trafficker and murderer, had apologised for his crimes.
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half of the 240 seats in parliament. An ethnic-Turkish party said it was=20
ready to join a coalition. It is unclear whether Simeon will become prime=
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minister, seek the presidency in the autumn or call the shots from behind t=
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=09=09=09=09See article: Is democracy working? E+
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administration, his=20
chancellor of the exchequer (finance minister), Gordon Brown, announced new=
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planning decisions. No, the relevant ministries have not been abolished.
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=09=09=09=09See article: The man who would make you rich E+
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Berlin=01,s city government. A Social Democrat-Green coalition will run Ber=
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thought, was to give him additional stature for his meeting with the Indian=
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