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Lankan president invites Tigers to talks abroad
Norway to remain peacemaker but on its own terms
The Sri Lankan government has formally invited the Tamil Tigers to resume peace talks, saying it was "amenable" to a key guerrilla demand to hold negotiations abroad.
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Hamas extends victory in Palestinian local polls
Hamas extended local election gains from the fractured ruling Fatah party yesterday and Israel said that if the Islamic militants won Palestinian political dominance it would end any hope for peacemaking.
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Iraq counts votes after massive polls turnout
More than two-thirds of Iraqi voters turned out in the country's landmark election, according to first estimates Friday, spawning hope for the war-battered nation and boosting the prospect of drawingminority
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US scheming on Iran, Syria, says Mahathir
Malaysia's former prime minister accused the US Thursday of scheming to invade Iran and Syria, and said the Iranian president's recent statements against Israel are providing Washington the excuse.
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UN slams Indian refusal to share quake data
India said Friday it would not share information on earthquakes below the magnitude of six on the Richter scale due to security concerns, drawing criticism from the United Nations.
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Iraq mistakenly freed terror kingpin Zarqawi
Iraqi security forces caught terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi but released him because they didn't realize who he was, the deputy interior minister said Thursday, according to CNN.
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China hospital fire kills 39
A fire swept through a hospital in northeastern China on Thursday, killing at least 39 people, the government said.
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Students, police clash in Nepal during strike
Nepali police fired tear gas to break up protests by rock-throwing students during a general strike in Kathmandu yesterday to protest the killing of 12 civilians by a soldier near the capital, witnesses
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Blast rocks Russian nuke plant
One person was killed in an explosion near the Leningrad nuclear power plant in northwest Russia, but the blast posed no danger to the reactors, an atomic energy agency spokesman said Friday.
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11 sentenced to life in prison for Gujarat riots
An Indian court in the western state of Gujarat has sentenced 11 Hindus to life in prison for killing Muslims during bloody religious riots in 2002 in a verdict hailed by human rights lawyers.
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Maldivian govt promises democratic reforms
The Maldivian government on Friday promised to accelerate democratic reforms in the Indian Ocean archipelago, where President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has governed his 300,000 people with tight controls since
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North Korea agrees to implement N-accord
North Korea has pledged to implement an agreement reached in September on ending its nuclear weapons drive but made no promise to return to six-nation disarmament talks.
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Toxic slick enters Russia from China
A toxic slick that threatened the water supply of several large Chinese cities along the Songhua river has reached Russian territory, Russia's emergencies minister said.
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