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No question of resigning, says Clinton
Asserting that he would serve the American people "till the last hour of the last day" of his term and not quit in the face of Saturday's impeachment, President Bill Clinton showed he's still in control as he called off the air strike against Iraq and returned to courting the public. The bombing of Iraq, which began hours before the impeachment debate last week, ended hours after the impeachment vote, lending another delicious twist to the conspiracy theories about the two being linked.

Iraq claims victory
Iraq today proclaimed victory after the US-led forces halted a 72-hour-long aerial bombing campaign against it even as Britain outlined a strategy of containment to keep a defiant Saddam Hussein "in his cage". "The United States was forced to call off Operation Desert Fox because it failed to achieve its objective,'' chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Arab and International Relations Khaled Shihab Al-Duri declared.

10 killed in Assam blast AT least 10 persons, including six policemen of the Seventh Assam Police Battalion were killed when suspected ulfa militants blew upo their jeep with a powerful timed device in Lower Assam's Dhubri district this morning.

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