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Coalition forces kill 40 Afghan 'extremists'
US-led coalition troops and Afghan security forces destroyed an "extremist safe haven" and killed more than 40 militants yesterday in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said.
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24 killed in Iraqi attacks
At least 24 people were killed in attacks across Iraq yesterday as sectarian bloodshed raged on in Baghdad, raising new fears that the country was sliding towards civil war.
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Lanka mulls constitution change for ending war
Sri Lanka said yesterday it was aiming to push through constitutional reform to bring an end to two decades of civil war, but analysts said it would probably not be enough to bring Tamil Tiger rebelsto
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Chechen warlord Basayev killed
Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, the most wanted man in Russia who claimed responsibility for the Beslan school hostage massacre and was blamed for many other attacks, has been killed, Russian news
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Missile test fails, says India
India's test-firing of its longest-range nuclear-capable missile, the Agni III, was unsuccessful after the projectile crashed into the sea despite a smooth take-off, a defence ministry official said yesterday.
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Saddam terms trial 'mockery of justice'
Saddam Hussein lashed out yesterday at his trial in Baghdad, charging it was a making a mockery of international and Iraqi law for the sake of "malicious" US aims, his defence team said.
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Indian rocket disintegrates after blast-off
A rocket carrying India's heaviest satellite disintegrated in a ball of smoke and flame seconds after lift-off yesterday, dealing a crippling blow to the country's ambitious space programme.
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Former Serb president goes on trial for war crimes
Former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, a close ally of late Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial in The Hague yesterday with five others also accused of war crimes in Kosovo in 1999.
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Fighting flares in Somali capital: 60 dead
New fighting erupted yesterday between Somali fighters loyal to defeated warlords and the country's Islamists militias, and the death toll tripled to at least 60 since Sunday, a hospital official said.
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