They were middle-class university students and avid cricket players;
one was studying biomedical sciences, another worked at Heathrow
Airport, a third was a bookkeeper and a fourth drove a taxi.
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As the Bush administration seeks to negotiate a diplomatic end to the
fighting in the Middle East, it finds it has a strikingly weak hand.
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The new Kabul Serena hotel rises in the middle of the city, a palace
of sandstone, built around gardens that even in summer’s drought
gleam green.
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Deep disagreements about the terms of a peace deal for Lebanon
divided the United States from most of its European allies Wednesday
as the Security Council struggled to take preliminary steps toward a
resolution that could silence the guns.
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France introduced a draft resolution to the Security Council on
Friday requiring Iran to suspend uranium enrichment by the end of
August or face the possibility of sanctions.
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The United Nations post where four peacekeepers were killed by
Israeli fire Tuesday was hit at least 16 times over six hours,
including five direct hits on the base as its unarmed staff
repeatedly notified Israeli liaison officers and begged for help,
U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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Leaders of Serbia and Kosovo reluctantly met face to face Monday for
the first time since
NATO bombs drove Serbian forces out of the
Albanian majority province in 1999.
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The elaborately stuccoed grand hall of the Palais Eschenbach often
plays host to nobility and businessmen, concerts and Christmas
parties, but last week it was the unlikely forum for a key Iranian
official, who came to make the case for Tehran’s right to nuclear technology.
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President Bush responded angrily Wednesday to Europe’s differing
views over the war in Iraq and the
U.S. treatment of prisoners at
Guantanamo Bay, even as he won renewed expressions of unity from the
European Union on nuclear nonproliferation.
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President Bush stepped off Air Force One on a warm night Tuesday in
the heart of Central Europe, and into the steamy debate over the
U.S.
war in Iraq and his administration’s tactics in countering terrorism.
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