SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Sept. 9 - Costa Rica asked the United States to remove it from a list of Iraq coalition partners on Thursday after the country's Constitutional Court ruled that inclusion on the list violated the Constitution, which bars support for any military action not authorized by the United Nations.
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