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Bush-Jamali talk Kashmir, war on terror
The Jammu and Kashmir issue, Iraq, war on terrorism, bilateral relations and security on the Afghan border have figured in talks Pakistan Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali has had with US President
 
Nepali Maoists begin truce for Hindu festival
Maoist rebels yesterday began a nine-day truce called as a goodwill gesture as Nepal celebrates its biggest Hindu festival.
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Bush seeks $600m to hunt Iraqi WMD proof
The Bush administration is seeking more than $600 million from Congress to continue the hunt for conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein's government had an illegal weapons programme, officials said Wednesday.
 
France sees explosion of terrorism in postwar Iraq
Iraq has gone from being a terrorist-free country under Saddam Hussein to seeing an "explosion" of terrorism since the US-led war this year, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said yesterday
 
US high-tech exports ban on India may go soon: Yashwant Sinha
The US may lift restrictions imposed on exports of high-technology items to India, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha has indicated.
 
Judge spells death for Bali bomber Mukhlas
An Islamic teacher was sentenced to death by firing squad yesterday after being found guilty of giving the final go-ahead to the Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
 
Suu Kyi willing to work with junta: Diplomat
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi told visiting UN envoy Razali Ismail that she is willing to work with the military junta on a new national reconciliation process, diplomats said yesterday.
 
Annan spells out need for fundamental UN reform
Stressing on the need for fundamental reform of the United Nations to meet new multiple challenges including terrorism, poverty, disease and climate change, Secretary General Kofi Annan has appealedto
 
'WB settlements, fences killing 2-state solution'
Arafat calls for foreign truce monitors
Israeli plans to build hundreds of new homes in Jewish settlements and erect fences deep in the West Bank are killing chances for a two-state peace settlement, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat
 
Indian police turn up heat on Maoists
Police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh mounted an intensive probe yesterday into an assassination bid on the provincial chief and vowed to turn up the heat on leftist rebels blamed forthe
 
Afghan envoy says
Curbing terrorism test case for Pak ties
Pakistan's sincerity in curbing "cross-border terrorist activities" in Afghanistan will decide the course of bilateral relations between the two neighbours, according to Afghan Ambassador to India Masood
 
Turkey, US agree on 'action plan to purge Kurdish rebels
Turkey and the United States have agreed on an "action plan", including military options, to purge northern Iraq of armed Turkish Kurd rebels, a Turkish diplomat said yesterday.
 
US sees new al-Qaeda terror chief in Gulf
US officials believe they have identified a young former bodyguard of Osama bin Laden as al-Qaeda's new chief of terror operations in the Persian Gulf.
 

 
   
 
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