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Colombo warned against no-war, no-peace policy
LTTE to repay war loans
Sri Lanka's Tiger rebels asked the government yesterday to revive stalled peace talks and warned that a policy of "no war, no peace" was fraught with political and military dangers.
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Muslims drift, not run, towards Kerry
They may not face the segregation that once defined the lives of black Americans, but many Muslim Americans feel that they are fighting the civil rights battles of the 1950s and 60s all over again.
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Thousands trapped by China floods
Rescuers battled yesterday to reach thousands of people trapped by floods and mudslides in southwest China as the death toll from some of the worst storms in years rose to 107 with another 88 missing.
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Kashmir Incursions
Pakistan accuses India of contradictions
India is making contradictory statements about Islamic rebels crossing the border to fight in disputed Kashmir, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri charged yesterday.
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Angry Putin rules out talks with Chechens
Thousands join anti-terror rally
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected any dialogue with Chechen separatists, blamed for at least 338 deaths in the school hostage siege, as thousands of people staged rally against terrorism in Moscow.
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Muslim growth rate outstrips Hindu in India
India's Muslim and Christian minority communities are growing at a fister rate than |he Hindu majority in the country of more than one billion people, a new census report shows.
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India discovers 'wonder drug' to fight TB
Indian scientists have discovered a new molecule hailed in yesterday's press as a "wonder drug" in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), a mass killer on the subcontinent.
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Jiang Zemin plans |o resign from top military post
Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who remains China's top military leader, has told Communist Party officials that he plans to resign, prompting an intense and so far inconclusive struggle for control
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Anwar wins new court battle
Malaysia's highest court agreed yesterday to review the corruption conviction of former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, a move that could lead to his immediate return to politics.
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Clinton recovering after bypass surgery
Former President Bill Clinton was recovering after a quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve arteries so severely clogged that they posed imminent danger of a major heart attack.
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