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Maoists, parties try to turn up heat on Nepal king
Communist leader detained after raid at home
The government calls it an "unholy alliance" but Nepal's Maoist rebels and political parties are working together for the first time to turn up the heat on King Gyanendra who seized power last year.
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Tigers say
Colombo endangering talks
The Tamil Tiger rebels yesterday accused Sri Lanka of endangering efforts to end ethnic bloodshed by imposing fresh conditions on their political activity.
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Afghans probe killings after Pak complaint
Afghan authorities have launched an investigation into the killing of 16 men an army officer described as Taliban but who Pakistan said were its citizens visiting Afghanistan for a holiday.
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'India is a prime US foreign policy priority'
India now is a "singularly important" US foreign policy priority, a senior Washington official said Wednesday, pointing to flourishing economic and political ties and this month's landmark bilateral nuclear
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Tigers abducting fewer children, says UN
Children are still being kidnapped by Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers to train as fighters, the UN children's agency Unicef says, but the abductions appear to be less frequent four years into a ceasefire.
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Asean envoy in Myanmar for HR inspection
Asean's special envoy to Myanmar arrived in the capital Yangon yesterday to press the military junta on democracy and human rights, according to security sources.
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Famed tortoise no more
Zoo officials in Kolkata said yesterday a famed 225-year-old tortoise brought to the eastern Indian city during the rule of the British East India Company has died.
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Olmert issues warning to Israeli parties
Israeli Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview published yesterday that any Israeli political parties that refuse to accept his plan of withdrawing from parts of the West Bank would not
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Protesters give Thai PM deadline to quit
Thailand's embattled prime minister yesterday dismissed a threat from his opponents to step up their protest campaign to bring him down unless he resigned by the end of the day.
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Chile bus crash kills 12 American tourists
A bus carrying cruise ship tourists plunged off a highway in northern Chile and tumbled 300 feet down a mountainside Wednesday, killing 12 Americans, US and Chilean officials said.
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