Cheney, Lieberman face-off in crucial debate
The No. 2 men take centrestage on Thursday when Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney meets Democrat Joseph Lieberman for their only debate of the 2000 campaign.



UAE sends flight of hope to Iraq, defies UN sanctions
An aircraft carrying medical supplies and officials left the United Arab Emirates for Baghdad on Thursday, the first flight from a Gulf Arab country to join aircraft going to Iraq to protest decade-old U N sanctions.



Kuwait on alert as angry Bedoun approach border
Over 2,000 stateless Arabs approached Iraq's border with Kuwait on Thursday in a bid to return to the northern Gulf emirate Baghdad's troops invaded a decade ago.



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