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Lanka govt, Tigers willing to talk, says Akashi
Colombo agrees to expand truce monitoring
The Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger guerrillas have told Norwegian mediators they are willing to return to peace talks without conditions, Japan's peace envoy to the country said yesterday.
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Developing states retool NAM for new era
Not aligned with whom? Developing countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) are working to make their Cold War-era group a united front with a sharper focus: countering not two superpowers, but one.
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25 civilians killed in Afghan offensive
Thousands displaced
At least 25 Afghan civilians are believed to have been killed and 7,000 families displaced in a major Nato operation against Taliban rebels, rights and government officials said yesterday.
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New bird found in India after more than 50 yrs
A striking multi-coloured bird has been discovered in India's remote northeast, making it the first ornithological find in the country in more than half a century, experts said yesterday.
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Court convicts 4 for '93 Mumbai bombings
An Indian court yesterday found four members of a Muslim family, including a woman, guilty in the 1993 bomb blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people, the first convictions in one of the world's longest
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Militants kill couple in Kashmir
Suspected Islamic militants shot and killed a husband and his wife in a remote mountain village in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, police said yesterday.
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NATO fight in Afghan south risks long-term aims
NATO troops have been sucked into bloody combat with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan that risks turning local opinion against them and undermining their ultimate goal of fostering reconstruction, analysts
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Iran pledges help for security in Iraq
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on his first official visit to Iran, yesterday won a pledge from the Islamic republic of unequivocal support in restoring security to the insurgency-plagued country.
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Life in ruins after Guantanamo jailPakistani says
Mohammad Sagheer says the year he spent in prison in Guantanamo Bay has ruined his life. He has lost his saw-mill business, his family has sunk into debt and his children have had to quit school.
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No let up in Kashmir rights abuse: HRW
Human rights abuses by security forces and Muslim militants continue unchecked in Indian Kashmir despite a three-year-old peace process between India and Pakistan, a global human rights group said yesterday.
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Helicopter crash in Russia kills 11
At least 11 people, most of them high-ranking officers, died in a military helicopter crash near the Russian city of Vladikavkaz, officials said yesterday.
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Brown moving into 10 Downing Street
British finance minister Gordon Brown, long tipped to take over from Prime Minister Tony Blair, is finally to move into 10 Downing Street -- even if he hasn't got the top job yet, officials said yesterday.
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Quake shakes western China
A magnitude-5.4 earthquake shook China's northwestern region of Xinjiang early yesterday, but there were no deaths or damage in the remote, unpopulated area, the government announced.
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