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Red Cross ferries 150 foreigners to safety
12 Tigers killed in fresh Lankan fighting
The Red Cross ferried 150 foreigners to safety from the besieged Jaffna peninsula Sunday as the Sri Lankan military claimed it killed 12 Tamil Tigers when repulsing a rebel attack on an army position.
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No change to Indo-US nuke deal: Manmohan
Scientists call on PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured top Indian nuclear scientists on Saturday that the country would not accept any significant changes to a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with theUnited
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Coalition soldier, 10 Taliban killed
Insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan left one Nato-led coalition soldier dead and seven wounded yesterday, while police killed 10 suspected Taliban militants who struck a government compound, officials
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US cities deploy fish to ward off terrorists
It’s no bait-and-switch scam: a California company has deployed a crack team of Bluegill fish to guard America's drinking water from potential terror attacks. Intelligent Automation Corp.
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Pak rebels extend truce
Pro-Taliban militants have extended a ceasefire with Pakistani forces for two weeks in a restive tribal region on the Afghan border, officials said on Saturday.
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Lankan Truce Monitoring
New head prepares for mission impossible
The new head of Sri Lanka's truce monitors takes over a team cut by nearly half this week amid warnings by his predecessor of "mission impossible" to satisfy both sides in the vicious separatist conflict.
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S Lebanon villages still without aid
Key US legislator vows to block relief
Many villages in southern Lebanon devastated by clashes between Israel and Hezbollah are still without aid two weeks after an end to the fighting, a top European aid official said yesterday.
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Iran test-fires missile
Vows to continue nuke works
Iran yesterday test-fired a sub-to-surface missile in the Persian Gulf during large-scale military exercises, state-run television reported.
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Bombs rock Baghdad
A car bomb blasted a state-run newspaper yesterday as police reported finding 20 bodies in Baghdad, one day after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki again called on ethnically and religiously divided Iraqis
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Indian floods kill 93 in desert state
At least 93 people were killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods caused by monsoon rains that have swamped the normally drought-prone desert state of Rajasthan, reports said yesterday.
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'Indians prefer Sonia as PM over Singh'
Indians would prefer ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi as the prime minister to incumbent Manmohan Singh, who took up the job she refused, a poll published over the weekend said.
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Kidnapped Fox News journalists released
Militants freed two Fox News journalists yesterday in the Gaza Strip, ending a nearly two week hostage drama in which one of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including
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