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UN warns many more dead in Indonesia
Plane crash hampers relief in Aceh
The chaotic effort to bring relief to Indonesia's tsunami survivors stalled Tuesday after a plane crash blocked the aid effort's main airport, as the UN warned there could be tens of thousands of newdeaths.
 
Powell saddened by governor's murder
'Iraq election will go ahead'
US Secretary of State Colin Powell expressed sorrow at Tuesday's assassination of Baghdad governor Ali Radi al-Haidari but said Iraq's elections will go ahead this month as scheduled.
 
Abbas denounces 'Zionist enemy'
7 Palestinians killed by Israeli shelling
Palestinian presidential election frontrunner Mahmud Abbas launched a withering attack on the "Zionist enemy" Tuesday after Israeli troops killed seven people in the northern Gaza Strip.
 
Britain proposes G8 debt relief for tsunami countries
Britain unveiled yesterday a proposal to its partners in the Group of Eight most industrialised nations for an "immediate moratorium" on debt repayments from countries hit by the tsunami disaster in the
 
Hostage taker in Peru arrested
The leader of a group of former soldiers holding 17 people hostage in a police station in the southern town of Adahuaylas was arrested while he was negotiating a surrender, as the standoff with his followers
 
Bush Sr, Clinton to head tsunami relief fund
President George W Bush has tapped former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H W Bush to lead a US charitable fund-raising effort for victims of the Asian Tsunamis, the White House announced on Tuesday.
 
India, Pakistan hold talks on water-sharing
India and Pakistan began another round of talks Tuesday on resolving a water-sharing row triggered by New Delhi's decision to build a hydroelectric dam in divided Kashmir, a ministry spokesman said.
 

 
   
 
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