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Assembly dissolved for fresh Bihar polls
Capping weeks of political uncertainty, the eastern Indian state of Bihar yesterday headed for fresh elections to its legislature, just two months after a similar exercise threw up a badly fractured verdict
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High alert in Delhi after bomb attacks
Cinema blasts claim 1
India was on high alert yesterday, a day after bombs tore through two cinemas in the capital showing a film considered offensive by some Sikhs.
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All reformists barred from Iranian polls
All reformists who registered to run in next month's presidential elections were rejected by Iran's hard-line constitutional watchdog, which approved only six out of the 1,010 hopefuls, state-run television
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Indo-Pak Peace
Ray of hopes for troops on 'highest battlefield'
Too scared to come down lest the other stays, the armies of Pakistan and India have occupied and fought over the Siachen Glacier, high in the mountains of northern Kashmir, for the past 21 years.
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Maoists bomb army spokesman's house
Thousands of Nepalis demand end to royal rule
Maoists have bombed the family home of Nepal's army spokesman, but his relatives escaped unhurt, official state-run radio announced yesterday.
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BBC programmes hit as staffs go on strike
Journalists and technical workers at the British Broadcasting Corpora-tion (BBC) staged a 24-hour strike yesterday over plans to cut 3,780 jobs, seriously disrupting programming at the world's biggest
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Schroeder calls for early polls
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder took a big gamble by calling for a national election a year early to enable his people to choose who best can lead them out of mass unemployment and stagnation.
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EU creates new rapid reaction forces
The European Union yesterday launched two new "battle group" rapid response forces, part of a growing number of such units able to rush to crisis zones worldwide.
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