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Indian PM promises peace with Pakistan
India's new Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his first address to the nation promised yesterday a "new deal" for the rural poor and sincere efforts to resolve all disputes with rival Pakistan including
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Flashfloods displace thousands in Assam
Three more die
Three more people died as rivers swelled through eastern India, leaving an estimated 150,000 people displaced at the start of the flood season, officials said yesterday.
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Lanka admits military backing to Karuna
Norway moves to salvage peace process
Sri Lanka's government yesterday admitted that elements of the military had supported a renegade rebel commander despite warnings that capitalising on the split could push the country back to war.
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Pak forces keep up al-Qaeda hunt
Pakistani forces have begun a house-to-house search in a remote tribal pocket near the Afghan border where the military carried out a massive air and ground offensive earlier this month, officials said
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US, N Korea agree to rare bilateral meeting
Nuclear proposal on table
North Korea and the United States agreed to a rare bilateral meeting yesterday on the sidelines of six-party talks, their first contact since Washington offered a new way out of the festering nuclearstandoff.
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'Vajpayee still tallest leader of BJP'
'Retirement talk a joke'
A day after former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee sprang a surprise by virtually announcing his retirement from active politics, BJP yesterday asserted that he remained the party's tallest leader
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US immunity in Iraq to extend past handover
Attacks can't stop power transfer: Britain
The Bush administration plans to extend immunity from prosecution for US troops in Iraq beyond the handover of power on June 30, The Washington Post reported yesterday.
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US drops quest for ICC immunity for its troops
The United States dropped its campaign to guarantee American soldiers immunity from the new International Criminal Court, a move that raised concerns Washington might veto UN peacekeeping missions.
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Anti-war passions flare after slaying of Korean
Govt bans hostage beheading video
Anti-war passions flared yesterday as South Korean activists vowed to block the dispatch of more troops to Iraq and the government banned a video of the beheading of a Korean national in the war-torncountry.
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US senators battle over Iraq abuse memos
Republicans in the US Senate battled on Wednesday to block Democrats from demanding the Bush administration to release more documents on the treatment of enemy combatants after the prisoner abuse scandal
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