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'Widening gap' between Afghanistan, Pakistan
Says Karzai after talks with Shaukat Aziz
Afghanistan and Pakistan remained at odds about the laying of mines on their shared border after top-level talks yesterday, with President Hamid Karzai noting a "widening gap" between the neighbours.
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Kashmir leaders to visit Pakistan to push peace
Kashmir's main political separatists will visit Pakistan this month to try set up a permanent peace dialogue process to help end a 17-year revolt in the disputed Himalayan region, a top leader said on
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Lanka bombs rebel base in new strike
Sri Lankan jets bombed a Tamil Tiger naval base in the north of the island on Thursday in a third consecutive day of air strikes despite United Nations calls for an end to the fighting.
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Blasts kill 5 in Afghanistan
20 insurgents die in fighting
Five Afghan militiamen were killed and four others were injured when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in volatile southern Afghanistan, a senior military official said Thursday.
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'Nato killed too many Afghan civilians'
Nato said Wednesday that it killed too many Afghan civilians during fighting last year against resurgent Taliban militants, but that the Western alliance was working to change that in 2007.
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West is environmentally wasteful: Manmohan
Developing world cannot afford to ape the West
Slamming the West for its "environmentally wasteful lifestyle", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on Wednesday for industrialised nations to look at alternative energy sources to save the environment.
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Nepali Maoists to allow police posts to reopen
Nepali police posts closed by Maoist threats during a decade-old revolt will be allowed to reopen to ensure timely polls for an assembly to map the nation's political future, the rebel chief said on Wednesday.
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Myanmar releases 3,000 prisoners
Myanmar's military government on Wednesday freed nearly 3,000 prison inmates, including about 50 political prisoners, according to media reports and a human rights group.
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Mullah Omar hasn't seen Laden for yrs
Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden, saying he had not seen his ally and fellow fugitive since US-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Afghanistanin
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79 Maoists surrender in C India
Seventy-nine Indian Maoist rebels have surrendered to authorities in the insurgency-racked central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said yesterday.
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Bush may send 40,000 more troops to Iraq
President George W Bush could send up to 40,000 more US troops to Iraq when he unveils his revised Iraq policy, US media said yesterday, cautioning that a final figure has not been determined.
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3,500 Islamists hiding in Somalia
Remnants of Somalia's Islamic movement still pose a threat in the capital, the interior minister said Thursday, a week after his government and Ethiopian troops chased most of the militiamen from Mogadishu.
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Thai junta leader trashes fresh coup rumours
Thailand's junta leader yesterday denied rumours swirling around Bangkok that the army had mobilised its troops in preparation for another coup, amid heightened tensions after recent bombs in the capital.
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Congressman to be sworn in using Quran
The first Muslim elected to Congress says he will take his oath of office using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson to make the point that "religious differences are nothing to be afraid of.
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Gene test may help lung cancer patients
Scientists in Taiwan have developed a simple, five-gene test aimed at showing which lung cancer patients most need chemotherapy, as similar tests now do for people with breast cancer and lymphoma.
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Rebellion deepens in Thai Muslim south
Three years after a separatist insurgency erupted in Thailand's Muslim south, rebel attacks have grown more frequent and gruesome amid signs that young radical Islamists are taking a greater role.
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Indian Muslim campaign aims to break stereotypes
A powerful Muslim group in India, home to the world's third-largest Islamic population, has launched a campaign to spread progressive values in the community and break stereotypes, its leaders said yesterday.
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Rare Nepal rhinos disappear mysteriously
Dozens of endangered Great One-horned rhinoceros have mysteriously gone missing from a nature reserve in southwest Nepal over the past few years, a wildlife official said on Wednesday.
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Chinese hero's memory burns bright in Penang
The fate of China's last imperial dynasty was sealed in an unlikely place -- an indigo-blue shop house jammed into a bustling commercial street on the Malaysian island of Penang.
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Indonesian flood victims in camps
Thousands of people who fled flash floods on the Indonesian island of Sumatra two weeks ago are unable to return home as their villages are buried under mud, aid workers said yesterday.
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Avalanches kill 3 in French Alps
Three off-piste skiiers were killed on Wednesday in snowslides in the French Alps, taking the avalanche toll in the region to four since the start of the week, the gendarmerie said.
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