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US warns Iran to stop aiding Iraqi insurgents
Tehran kicks off revolution fete with nuke defiance
Iran is supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons technology used to kill American troops, a senior US diplomat said on Wednesday, sending another warning to Iran against interfering in Iraq.
 
Grenade hits office of Kashmiri separatists
Thousands greet militants on return from Pak trip
Suspected Muslim militants threw a grenade at the main office of Kashmir's separatist alliance nearly a week after a senior leader called on guerrillas to support peace moves, but no one was hurt,
 
Nepali PM promises federal state
Ethnic leader urges Koirala to act
Nepal's prime minister promised on Wednesday to turn Nepal into a federal state after this year's constituent assembly elections, a move to stem protests by ethnic Madhesi people in which 11 people have
 
Cash-for-honours Probe
Blair quizzed again
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been questioned by police for a second time over a "cash-for-honours" probe clouding his final months in office, his Downing Street office said yesterday.
 
Palestinian truce enters third day
3 Palestinians killed
A truce between warring Palestinian factions entered its third day yesterday, marred by sporadic shootings.
 
Mass arrests after Lanka blasts kill 12
'Military crackdown on Tigers to continue'
Tamil Tiger rebels set off a roadside bomb in Sri Lanka's troubled north yesterday, killing a soldier as police carried out mass arrests after a similar blast killed 11 people, officials said.
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Musharraf lobbies OIC to back his ME plan
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf lobbied the head of the Islamic world's largest grouping yesterday to back his idea for Muslim nations to come up with a new Middle East peace initiative.
 
Israel PM quizzed by Lebanon war commission
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was being grilled yesterday by an Israeli commission probing failures of the Lebanon war, amid a string of scandals that have left his government teetering.
 
India extends Taslima Nasreen's visa for 6 more months
Indian government has extended the visa of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen for six more months.
 
Putin seeks advice from family dog, Persian poet
When the going gets tough, President Vladimir Putin turns to his labrador Connie and 11th-century Persian Poet Omar Khayyam for advice, the Russian leader said at his annual press conference yesterday.
 

 
   
 
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