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Lankan parties back talks with Tigers
Sri Lanka's bitter political rivals showed rare unity to call for urgent talks with Tamil Tiger rebels to end the latest cycle of violence that has killed at least 140 people, officials said yesterday.
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New Indo-Pak bus joins two Punjabs
Pakistan and India launched a third cross-border bus service yesterday Friday, the latest new transport link aimed at building confidence to spur their slow-moving peace process.
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US business lobbies for nuke deal with India
American companies are mounting a multimillion-dollar campaign to sell to Congress a landmark civilian nuclear deal with India, which promises a "bounty of opportunity" for US business and strategic interests,
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Laden seeks to silence rumours of his demise
US rejects al-Qaeda kingpin's truce proposal
A recording from Osama bin Laden, his first message for over a year, is aimed at quashing rumours of his death and warning the Western world its most wanted man remains a major threat, analysts said Friday.
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Syria backs Iran's nuke ambitions
Syria asserted Thursday that Iran had a right to atomic technology and said Western objections to Tehran's nuclear ambitions were not persuasive.
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More Pak protests against US airstrike
About 8,000 Islamic hard-liners yesterday protested a US missile strike that targeted al-Qaeda leaders in a Pakistani village, chanting their support for holy war and burning an effigy of President Bush.
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