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India, Bhutan amend Friendship Treaty
In a changed international scenario, India and Bhutan on Thursday signed a revised landmark Friendship Treaty, which will enable the landlocked Himalayan kingdom greater say over its foreign and defence
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Disease fears rise in Indonesia's capital
Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city's worst floods infive
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US, N Korea caution on hope for deal
The prospect of initial steps toward ending North Korea's nuclear arms programme brightened yesterday as negotiators considered a plan for Pyongyang to suspend operations at a nuclear plant within two
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Taliban refuse to talk on captured town
Taliban rebels who captured a southern Afghan town a week ago were fortifying their positions after rejecting talks, a tribal chief said Friday as officials played down the situation.
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'US manipulated intel to link Saddam with al-Qaeda'
A "very damning" report by the Defence Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda in the runup to the USinvasion
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Nato-Russia meet amid US shield tensions
Nato defence ministers held talks yesterday with their Russian counterpart Sergei Ivanov amid tensions over US plans to deploy a missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland.
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Palestinian deal hinges on West, Israel
The success of the Palestinian unity agreement hinges on whether Israel and the West will lift a debilitating political and economic boycott that precipitated months of unparalled crisis.
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6 opposition workers killed in Pakistan
Unidentified gunmen ambushed a van carrying activists from the main opposition Pakistan People's Party yesterday, killing six of them and wounding two others, police and a party official said.
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Ruling on Indian dam next week
An expert appointed by the World Bank will announce Monday whether a controversial dam India is building in the disputed Kashmir region violates a water-sharing treaty with Pakistan, the bank said.
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International caution over Palestinian deal
There was international relief yesterday at the agreement between rival Palestinian factions to form a national unity government, though the United States insisted the Palestinians must commit to peace
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Anna Nicole Smith dies
Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned Playboy Playmate who fought all the way to the US Supreme Court over her billionaire husband's estate, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 39.
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Pak police foil bombing plot
10 bombs seized
Pakistani police said Friday they had foiled a terrorist plot after seizing 10 bombs on a road used by army convoys near the restive tribal region bordering Afgbaistan.
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