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Minister: Iraq may be secure in 18 months
Mar 28 2005 10:10PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's outgoing interior minister predicted Monday that his country's emerging police and army may be capable of securing the nation in 18 months, saying his officers are beginning to take over from coalition forces.
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Syria pulls 2,000 more troops from Lebanon
Mar 28 2005 6:20PM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Syria has cut back its troops in Lebanon to the lowest level in three decades as 2,000 more soldiers returned home in recent days, the Lebanese military said Monday.
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Israeli parliament rejects Gaza referendum
Mar 28 2005 3:34PM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's parliament on Monday rejected a last-ditch attempt to torpedo Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, vetoing a proposed national referendum. The plan now goes to the nation's Supreme Court.
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Palestinian party calls primary election
Mar 28 2005 1:18PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The ruling Palestinian Fatah Party is calling its first-ever primary election ahead of the parliamentary election in July, party officials said Monday.
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Sharon: U.S. settlement policy is clear
Mar 28 2005 6:09AM (CT)
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told his Cabinet on Sunday there is no need to clarify U.S. policy on Jewish settlements, saying Washington supports Israel's retention of West Bank blocs as part of a final Mideast agreement but opposes continued settlement building at this time.
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Dozens of Lebanese still held in Syria
Mar 28 2005 3:44AM (CT)
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - The last time Sonia Eid saw her son Jihad was 14 years ago, when she watched from a distance as the Lebanese army corporal, blindfolded and bound to a line of other prisoners, was led into interrogation at Syria's notorious Mazzeh prison.
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Israeli troops raid West Bank town
Mar 28 2005 1:53AM (CT)
JENIN, West Bank (AP) - Israeli troops raided the West Bank town of Jenin early Monday, carrying out house-to-house searches and arresting eight Palestinians, witnesses and the army said.
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