TERROR SUSPECT: The alleged ringleader fo the shadowy Jemaah Islamiah terror organization was re-arrested and charged with complicity in the Bali attack
Indonesian police arrested Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir yesterday over his suspected links to bombing attacks, including the Bali blasts, after hundreds of his supporters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police.

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Unfazed by the latest outbreak of SARS, tens of millions of Chinese streamed past temperature monitors onto planes and trains yesterday as the weeklong May Day holiday began and authorities girded against travelers spreading the virus.

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Violence in Thailand's Muslim south has little to do with the drug trade and is the work of a growing but still shadowy movement that wants a separate Islamic state, a senior government adviser said yesterday after this week's mass killings of militants.

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FLIP-FLOP: The Israeli prime minister is losing ground, but did not say he would resign if his Gaza plan is rejected in tomorrow's party poll
With polls forecasting defeat, a beleaguered Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned party members that if they vote against his Gaza pullout plan, they may vote themselves out of power.

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BULLSEYE: Three astronauts, two of whom spent six months in orbit, left their space station for the more welcoming environment of the Kazakhstan steppes
A Soyuz space capsule made a "bullseye" landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan early yesterday, bringing a Russian, a US astronaut and a Dutchman back to Earth from the International Space Station.

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Michael Jackson's arraignment on a grand-jury indictment marks a turning point in the five-month-old child molestation case against the singer, moving him closer to a trial.

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Why this particular fishing village, among the hundreds along the East African coast, may soon receive a new well courtesy of the Pentagon is no secret.

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When German Galdetsky, 19, saw Moscow subway police drag away his friend Olga who later emerged tearfully complaining of attempted rape, he embarked on a personal crusade that his family says nearly cost him his life.

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INVESTIGATION: The US president said he `came away good' after a panel probing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks questioned him and the vice president for three hours
President George W. Bush said he and Vice President Dick Cheney answered every question on Thursday from the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks and denied their joint appearance was aimed at keeping their story straight.

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INTEGRATION: Each city in the EU has its own historical references to times not so long ago when the countries in Europe were at war, rather than trying to integrate
Talk in the streets is of a new Europe, a seamless superstate of common dreams. But down below, the No. 7 metro rumbles from Tolbiac to Stalingrad, evoking 15 centuries of bitter conflict.

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The State Department reported Thursday there were fewer international terrorist attacks last year than any time since 1969 -- but the figures don't include most of the violence in Iraq.

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A soldier accused of abusing Iraqi war prisoners wrote that his commanders ignored his requests for rules of conduct and silenced his questions about harsh, humiliating treatment of inmates.

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The mountain basin that cradles this town is due for a whopping earthquake, the kind that's reliably on time and can topple buildings in a heartbeat.

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Iraq detainees in debt
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