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Fierce fighting kills 36 in Afghanistan
Fighting raged across southern Afghanistan yesterday with attacks on government offices and a police convoy killing a district chief and 14 others raising the death toll from two days of battles to 36,
 
Independence Day Celebration
Lanka shows might as Tigers protest
Sri Lanka put on a bristling display of its military might to mark freedom day Saturday as Tamil rebels forced a work stoppage ahead of key talks to save a tenuous truce in the strife-torn island.
 
Nepal braces for strike after Maoist attacks
Nepal braced yesterday for a week-long general strike called by Maoist rebels, a day after the guerrillas attacked a town near the border with India.
 
Palestinian govt must uphold roadmap: UN
The UN Security Council on Friday said all members of a future Palestinian government must be committed to a negotiated settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
 
US unveils strategy for 'long war' on terror
The US Defence Department on Friday unveiled a new strategy to beef up US special operations forces for a "long war" on terrorism and develop new ways to combat weapons of mass destruction.
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Angry relatives of ferry passengers storm Egypt port
Hundreds of relatives of passengers from an Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea broke through police cordons and stormed Safaga port Saturday amid mounting discontent over the lack of informationon
 
Indian airport workers to continue strike
Indian airport workers vowed yesterday to continue their anti-privatisation strike which has created havoc in the nation's airports, ignoring an appeal by the prime minister to end the walkout.
 
West divided on free speech over cartoons
Muslim faithful vented their anger in mosques around the world on Friday over European cartoons of Prophet Hazrat Mohammed(SM), as divisions opened up between Western countries over the limits to free
 
US lawmakers seek intelligence report on North Korean nukes
US legislators asked President George W. Bush to declassify an intelligence report on North Korea's nuclear weapons so that Congress can hold a full debate on policy towards the Stalinist state.
 

 
   
 
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