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Israel halts campaigning in east Jerusalem
Palestinians threaten to cancel vote
Israeli police stopped two leading candidates from canvassing in occupied east Jerusalem on the first day of the Palestinian election campaign yesterday, prompting new threats to cancel the whole ballot.
 
Monitors start reviewing Iraq vote results
A team of international monitors yesterday started to review contested results from Iraq's December general elections following accusations of fraud by Sunni-based and secular parties.
 
Southern India on high terror alert
Police put hundreds of officers on the streets of this southern Indian city yesterday following the arrest of two suspected Islamic militants and warned residents to be prepared for attacks.
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10 Germans killed as ice rink roof collapses
An ice rink roof collapsed onto dozens of skaters after heavy snowfall in the Bavarian Alps on Monday, and at least 10 people were believed dead, with other victims feared trapped between debris and the
 
New Book Says
Iraq had no WMD, but CIA ignored the information
A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anaesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure inSaddam
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Cold Hits Quake Zone
Aid flights grounded for third day
Relief flights were grounded for a third-straight day in northern Pakistan's earthquake zone yesterday and aid workers scrambled to help cold, wet survivors after two days of heavy snow and rain.
 
Pakistan in talks to buy Chinese N-reactors
Pakistan is in talks to buy up to eight nuclear power reactors from China for between $7 billion and $10 billion, Britain's Financial Times reported yesterday.
 
'5 students shot dead by Lankan troops'
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday accused troops of shooting dead five Tamil students in the restive northeastern port town of Trincomalee.
 

 
   
 
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