Portfolios would still be chock-a-block with loans that yield no interest and shares that cannot be sold because their sale would force banks to book a loss.

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Unlike in Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the Security Council cannot force an independent tribunal on Phnom Penh because China would likely exercise its veto, arguing that the matter is Cambodia's internal affair.

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The family of a man swept into the sea in Blackpool during gale-force winds say they "fear the worst" because he cannot swim.

BBC: Paul Morris

But most of them cannot do this because they voted in favour of last year's congressional resolution authorising force in Iraq.

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The flights taking the detainees from Afghanistan to Guantanamo won't be nonstop, military sources said Wednesday, because the air field at Kandahar where the detainees are being kept cannot handle a big Air Force transport.

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