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Fri February 28, 2003 BUCHAREST (Reuters) - A Romanian man plans to complain to consumer authorities about the poor quality of a rope he used in a failed attempt to hang himself, Romanian papers reported Thursday. "You can't even die in this ...

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Mon March 3, 2003 ROME (Reuters) - Desperate to avoid war in the Gulf, a small Italian town is offering Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his family exile. "We are doing the only possible serious thing, we are saying Saddam and his family can come ...

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Mon March 3, 2003 10:03 AM ET MOSCOW (Reuters) - Harry Potter has captivated readers and cinema-goers worldwide, but a Russian man has decided to see if the famous name can pass an altogether different test -- winning him election as a provincial ...

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Mon March 3, 2003 10:04 AM ET ROME (Reuters) - Ice cream proved too tempting and ultimately troublesome for one Italian under house arrest. The man, in his 40s, popped out to get a gelato but bumped into the tax police as he left the shop in the ...

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Mon March 3, 2003 10:06 AM ET By Jason Hopps LONDON (Reuters) - The Swiss city of Zurich edged out Vancouver, Canada, and the Austrian capital of Vienna to top a quality of life survey published on Monday, with impoverished, war-torn African cities ...

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Feb. 11, 2003/ 9 Adar I, 5763 Richard Z. Chesnoff Syria's efforts to portray itself as American ally in the War on Terrorism must be regarded as nothing more than an elaborate charade. Bashar al-Assad, the dictator in Damascus, is busily ...

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By Andrew Quinn JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A late infusion of relief funds has kept food flowing to millions of hungry people in southern Africa, but the emergency will sharpen soon as stockpiles dwindle before the next big harvest, the UN World ...

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George W. Bush, the US President, today warned that Iraq would face "the severest consequences" if it refused to adhere to the terms of a UN Security Council resolution requiring Baghdad to disarm. Shortly after the Security Council gave ...

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Fri Oct 18, 2002 By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) - Doctors in many countries are targeting the wrong people for treatment to avert heart attacks and strokes, according to a new report by the United Nations health agency. Doctors ...

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by Berit Kjos  1999 "We believe that mental health is just as important as physical health maybe even more so."   Donna Shalala, Department of Health and Human Services  "Mental health refers to ...

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Friday, 30 August, 2002 Source: BBC News The report says Bin Laden has a large investment portfolio American officials have played down the significance of a leaked United Nations report which says that the al-Qaeda network is alive and well ...

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Aug. 30, 2002 By BRET STEPHENS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa James Shikwati is not your typical summiteer. Pace the floors of the World Summit on Sustainable Development's conference hall, in the ultra-luxurious Johannesburg suburb of ...

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By NAZILA FATHI TEHRAN, Aug. 28, 2002 — Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, said today that hard-line clerics had made it all but impossible for him to do his job and that he would propose legislation to adjust the balance of power so that ...

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By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2002 — The Saudi government has spent millions of dollars on well-connected lobbyists and national television advertisements since Sept. 11 in a drive to improve its image among Americans and is poised ...

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By REUTERS LONDON, Aug. 29 — Iraqi opposition figures are planning a conference in Europe for the end of September to elect a government in exile backed by the United States, opposition sources said today. They said the conference, which will ...

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Health - AP Traffic Deaths on Rise Globally Thu Aug 29, 7:55 AM ET By JONATHAN FOWLER, Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) - Traffic accidents are set to become one of the world's biggest killers in the next two decades, with ...

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Aug. 27, 2002 Mubarak: US attack on Iraq would bring chaos By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cairo A US attack on Iraq would sink the Middle East into chaos, while Israel's military campaign against the Palestinians would see the crisis continue ...

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Tue Aug 27, 2002 By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development called Tuesday for increased global efforts to bring new agricultural technologies to poor ...

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Fri Aug 23, 2002 By DINA KRAFT, Associated Press Writer WITDRAAI, South Africa (AP) - The slight, wizened man kneels in the sand and speaks of the long desert hunting treks of his youth, where his grandfather gave him the fleshy pulp of the ...

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Sun Aug 25,  2002 By MIKE COHEN, Associated Press Writer JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Zambia has rejected a U.N. appeal to distribute genetically modified food, saying it would procure enough other grain to feed its starving people. Aid ...

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By Anthony Faiola Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, 6 August, 2002 ROSARIO, Argentina -- Word spread fast through the vast urban slums ringing Rosario. There was food on the freeway -- and it was still alive. A cattle truck had ...

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