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Shocked Japanese sent scrambling
Quakes toll rises to 21
Overturned cars, crumbled homes and shattered roads greeted rescue workers yesterday after Japan's deadliest earthquake in almost a decade stunned residents used to bearing up through the nation's frequent
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Israeli cabinet approves compensation for settlers
Two Palestinian militants killed in air raid
The Israeli cabinet approved yesterday a bill to compensate settlers who are to be uprooted from their homes under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan, public radio reported.
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EU nuclear proposal unbalanced: Iran
Iran yesterday described a European proposal aimed at ending a nuclear standoff as "unbalanced" and rejected its demands that the Islamic republic halt all uranium enrichment activities.
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Norway, Japan move to salvage Lankan talks
Sri Lanka's peacebroker Norway and the country's main financial backer Japan are due to step up diplomatic efforts to salvage a faltering peace process, officials and diplomats said yesterday.
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US Election 2004
Asians flex muscle in US presidential polls
Asian-American Lillian Fong squints as she concentrates on screen after screen of ballot choices on an electronic voting machine set up in a harshly-lit classroom.
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CIA secretly moved prisoners out of Iraq
US intelligence officials have transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation, a move that experts say violates international law, The Washington Post reported in its yesterday's edition.
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US seeks strategy with Japan for N Korea talks
Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday
there was still time to resolve a nuclear
crisis with North Korea through six-party
talks despite Pyongyang's refusal to resume
the negotiations
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Omar Abdullah escapes assassination
The head of Indian Kashmir's main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, escaped assassination yesterday for the second time in a month when Muslim rebels tried to blow up his vehicle, police said.
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Karzai campaign team claims victory
Hamid Karzai has won the required majority of votes for victory in Afghanistan's presidential election and is awaiting the official announcement of results, a presidential aide and his campaign spokesman
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US-Russia space crew land safely
A Soyuz capsule carrying a US-Russian crew back to Earth following six months at the international space station landed safely and on target in Kazakhstan early yesterday.
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Suicide bomber in Kabul kills 2
An American woman and an Afghan girl were killed in a weekend suicide bombing on a popular shopping strip in Kabul in an attack that also injured three Icelandic peacekeepers and five local people.
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