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`Old Europe' plans to overhaul defences
BRUSSELS, APRIL 30.The four anti-Iraq war European powers, led by France and Germany, unveiled plans last night to set-up a central European military headquarters in 2004. At a summit meeting here they also agreed to set up an autonomous European ...

Not to rival NATO, says France
PARIS APRIL 30. The French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, today rejected accusations that the four-nation summit on European Security in Brussels on Tuesday was an attempt to set up a military alliance that would rival NATO. Speaking ...

What liberation, ask Iraqi women
BAGHDAD, APRIL 30. The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan was hailed as a triumph for the rights of women, but in Iraq women say liberation American-style has brought them little but hardship. The fall of the hardline Islamic rule of the Taliban in ...

Emerging Iraqi nationalism, a challenge to U.S.?
DAMASCUS, APRIL 30.Faced with the prospects of a long-drawn U.S. occupation, a new phase of Iraqi nationalism, driven by a new set of political forces that the Anglo-American war has unleashed, may be about to take shape. According to Haitahm ...

NDTV opinion poll: Iraqis want Saddam punished
Tariq Aziz says Saddam Hussein is alive. If he is captured what do the people of Iraq think should be done to him? Should he be punished, set free or sent into exile? NDTV's opinion poll conducted in 25 localities spread across Baghdad and ...

Other Stories

Chemical weapons inspectors visit plant in Pak.

6 Al-Qaeda men including Yemeni held in Pak.

Man of Indian origin dies of SARS

Russia cements ties with E.U.

Colombo begins wooing LTTE again

Abbas takes office; blast rocks Tel Aviv

`India faces significant terrorist threat'

In father's footsteps

SARS 'remains severe' in Beijing, says Mayor

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