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Musharraf memoirs set for 'hot sale' in India
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's memoirs appear set to become a best-seller in rival India, where opinion-makers have charged that the book, "In the Line of Fire", in part rewrites history.

Nepal PM, Maoist chief to hold talks
Nepal's premier and the leader of the Maoist rebels will meet this week for what both sides hope will be breakthrough peace talks paving the way for the guerrillas to join an interim government, officials

1993 Mumbai Blasts
5 cops sentenced for conspiracy
An Indian court on Tuesday convicted five suspended police officers of conspiring to help to bring explosives into Mumbai that were used in India's worst ever terrorist attack 13 years ago.

Saddam ousted for third time amid court room revolt
Saddam Hussein was thrown out of court for the third time in as many hearings of his genocide trial yesterday, prompting a revolt among the defendants after which the case continued without them.

Abe 'committed to tearing up legacies of defeat'
Mild in his manners but passionate in his ideas, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the first Japanese leader born after World War II and is committed to tearing up the legacies of defeat.

Assam fears fresh violence as Delhi ends ceasefire
Hopes for an end to nearly three decades of bloody insurgency in India's remote northeast have dimmed after New Delhi at the weekend called off a ceasefire and resumed army operations against a dominant

S Arabia denies contacts with Israel
Saudi Arabia Tuesday rejected as "fabricated" reported contacts between Saudi and Israeli officials, including a purported meeting between Israel's Premier Ehud Olmert and King Abdullah.