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Arabs urge Hamas to take peace path
Arab leaders yesterday urged Hamas -- dedicated to destroying Israel -- to talk peace with the Jewish state after the Islamist group redrew the political map with its shock Palestinian election victory.
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India has hard choices on US nuke deal: Rice
India has "difficult choices" to make on a controversial civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States before the deal can be completed, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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Opposition denounces 'farcical' Nepal polls
Few candidates register, opposition vows anti-king rally
Municipal polls planned by Nepal's King Gyanendra as part of his pledge to restore democracy look set to fail, opposition parties said yesterday after figures showed a lack of candidates.
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Tigers, troops accuse each other of attacks
Sri Lanka's military and Tamil Tiger rebels accused each other of new attacks on Thursday, a day after agreeing to peace talks that international truce monitors warned could be prevented by the violence.
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Women bear brunt of poverty in Iraq
Umm Ziyad, her husband, two sons and granddaughter were just making ends meet in a one-room hovel in Baghdad when a suicide bomber decided the best way to attack a police station was to drive throughthe
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Nawaz Sharif heading to Britain
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was to end five years of exile in Saudi Arabia by travelling to Britain on Sunday, a spokesman said Thursday.
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UN top job contenders face off at Davos
Some of the contenders touted to replace UN chief Kofi Annan set out their stalls Thursday when they faced off at a debate here on the future of the world body.
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Pakistan Says
US strike violated its sovereignty
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview on Thursday that a US airstrike this month which killed some 18 civilians near the country's border with Afghanistan was a "violation of sovereignty.
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