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India, Pakistan likely to clinch missile test deal
India and Pakistan are likely to formalise an agreement on advance notification of missile tests and cement understanding on other confidence building measures (CBMs) to deal with nuclear emergencieswhen
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Rains pound Karnataka
Rains which pummelled western India for a week have changed course and are now causing havoc in the southern state of Karnataka where 90 people have died and vast tracts are under water, officials said
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'India, US not ganging up against China'
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday asserted that India's close ties with the United States were not aimed at "ganging up" against China or any other country.
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Pakistani Court Says
Provincial Taliban-style law is unconstitutional
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday declared unconstitutional a bill passed by a staunchly Islamic province to introduce what critics describe as a Taliban-style moral policing system.
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Top UN official meets Myanmar opposition
The head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) met senior members of Myanmar's opposition National League for Democracy Thursday and discussed humanitarian operations but avoided political issues, NLD
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7 killed in Kashmir
Seven people were killed in fresh fighting between soldiers and separatist militants in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said yesterday.
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Amnesty Says
US still maintaining secret detentions
Two Yemenis held in secret prison
Two men now in a Yemeni prison appear to have been kept in secret US detention facilities in solitary confinement for more than 18 months, Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday.
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UK supplied key nuke component to Israel
Britain secretly sold Israel a key component for its then-fledgling nuclear programme in the late 1950s, not even telling key ally Washington, a report based on British archives said on Wednesday.
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Mauritania calm after coup
Mauritania was calm yesterday, the day after the overthrow of President Maaouyia Ould Taya, but international pressure mounted on the 17-strong military council which seized power in the oil-rich northwest
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Jordan uncovers al-Qaeda plot to attack US troops
Jordan has arrested 17 militants linked to the al-Qaeda network in Iraq and an affiliated Saudi group who were plotting to attack US military personnel in the kingdom, security sources said yesterday.
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Canine cloned
Man can now reproduce his best friend -- South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they had created the world's first cloned dog.
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Brain-dead woman dies after giving birth
A brain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months so she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support Wednesday and died, a day after giving birth.
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