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Pakistan votes to roll back law on rape
Pakistan's lower house of parliament voted yesterday to put the crime of rape under the civil penal code, curtailing the scope of Islamic laws that rights groups have long criticized as unfair to women.
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Rebels attack Manipur CM's Imphal home
Separatist guerrillas carried out a grenade attack on the home of the chief minister of India's restive northeastern state of Manipur, police said yesterday.
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Most hostages in Iraqi mass kidnap freed
20 Iraqis killed, 4 GIs killed in rebel attacks
Most of the dozens of hostages seized at a Higher Education Ministry building on Tuesday have been freed while more than 20 Iraqis and four US soldiers were killed in rebel attacks, the government said
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Small tsunamis hit Japan after quake
Japan issued a tsunami warning yesterday and told Pacific coast residents to flee to higher ground after a powerful earthquake hit off sparsely populated islands to the north.
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Israel vows to expand Gaza offensive
Woman killed by rocket
An Israeli woman was killed by Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza Wednesday, sparking warnings by the Jewish state it will expand its lethal four-month offensive in the coastal strip.
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Democrats to press military to quit Iraq
Emboldened by election gains and the resignation of Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld, Democrats want to press a top Army general and other advisers to President Bush on beginning to pull troops out
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