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Bush brands Iran, Syria 'outlaw regimes'
UNSC puts finishing touches to resolution
President George W. Bush on Friday called Iran and Syria "outlaw regimes" and said countries that support terrorism are just as guilty of murder as those who commit the violence.
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Kashmir Quake Aid
Indo-Pak officials talk opening of border
India and Pakistan began talks yesterday on an unprecedented opening of their disputed Kashmir border to help victims of the massive earthquake believed to have killed about 80,000 people.
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Quake succeeds where invaders fail
Invaders over the centuries failed to bring down the walls of the Red Fort in the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, but the massive October 8 earthquake did so in seconds.
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'Saddam accepted UAE exile plan to avert Iraq war'
Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported on Friday.
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Afghan violence kills 21
Two men dragged out of mosque and shot dead
Fresh violence killed 21 people in insurgency-hit Afghanistan including 14 suspected militants and three men shot dead during Ramadan prayers, officials said Saturday.
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Iran has no intention to attack Israel
UNSC slams Ahmadinejad's remarks
Iran yesterday slammed the UN Security Council condemnation of its president's anti-Israeli remarks, which caused international outrage, but insisted there was no intention to attack the Jewish state.
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Kashmir CM resigns as Congress takes over
Indian Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed yesterday quit his post in accordance with a power-sharing pact with the Congress party, which will now rule the troubled state for the next three years,
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UN warns of chilling winter in quake zone
UN weather experts said on Friday unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfall would soon hit areas of Pakistani Kashmir, jeopardising efforts to feed and shelter survivors of the South Asian earthquake.
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3 more US soldiers killed in Iraq
Insurgents used a land mine and a roadside bomb to kill three US Army soldiers and wound four yesterday in attacks that brought to eight the number of American service members who have died in the last
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3 Indonesian students beheaded
Three teenage Christian women were beheaded on Saturday by two assailants wearing helmets in eastern Indonesia as they walked to school near the Muslim town of Poso, officials said.
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