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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times front page - May 1
01 May 2007 06:02:19 GMT
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) - The New York Times reported the following stories on its front page on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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An Israeli government commission accused Minister Ehud Olmert of deciding hastily to go to war and neglecting to ask for a detailed military plan.

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A jury found five British Muslim men guilty of planning fertilizer-bomb attacks around London.

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The largest bloc of Sunni Arabs in the Iraqi Parliament threatened to withdraw its ministers from the Shiite-dominated cabinet.

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Fred D. Thompson, the actor and politician, is of the Republican presidential campaign but not in it. Yet.

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Like "therapy courts" devoted to drugs, a New York gambling court offers counseling in lieu of jail time.

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Facing political pressure, U.S. officials have increased the number of illegal immigrants they deport.

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U.S. soldiers of 2-8 Delta Calvary search for IED (Improvised Explosive Devices) on a main road outside Taji May 8, 2007. A suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 70 at a crowded market in Iraq's Shi'ite city of Kufa on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a string of sectarian attacks blamed on al Qaeda Sunni militants.



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