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Mon. February 26, 2007


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Last rites read over Lanka peace move
As thousands flee for their lives amid heavy weekend artillery fire in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, analysts say the government, Tamil rebels and Norway are clinging to a truce that is dead.

Pak power plant bombed
Suspected insurgents bombed a main railway track and fired a rocket at an electricity station in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, but there were no casualties, officials said

Tehran ready for both 'talks & war' with US
Pentagon panel created for Iran bombing
Iran is prepared both for war and talks with archfoe the United States, a top foreign ministry official said yesterday, amid speculation of American plans for military action against Tehran.

'Most US intelligence on Iran inaccurate'
Most US intelligence on Iran shared with the International Atomic Energy Agency has proved to be inaccurate and failed to lead to discoveries of a smoking gun inside the Islamic Republic, The Los Angeles

Clashes erupt as Israeli troops raid Nablus
Israeli troops raided the northern West Bank town of Nablus yesterday, arresting 20 Palestinians and triggering clashes that left six people wounded, security sources and witnesses said.

News Analysis
Ghost of Bofors scam haunts Congress
The ghost of high-profile Bofors gun purchase scam in mid-1980s seems to have come back to haunt ruling Congress party after a news that an Italian businessman, wanted in India for allegedly receiving

Home-grown terrorists plotting attacks in UK
More than 2,000 home-grown al-Qaeda terrorists are plotting suicide attacks in Britain, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing a secret intelligence document.

Troops take Tiger bases
Fresh offensive goes on
Sri Lankan troops seized at least four bases from Tamil Tiger strongholds in the northeast in the past week, the defence ministry said Sunday, in fighting that has forced thousands to flee.

Army launches hunt for killers of 16 Indian policemen
A massive manhunt is underway in the dense jungles of India's troubled northeastern state of Manipur after 16 policemen were killed in a militant ambush, a top military commander said on Sunday.

Breath test sniffs out lung cancer
A breath test based on coloured dots can give doctors a good fix on whether a patient has lung cancer, a study published on Monday in the British specialist journal Thorax says.

Woman linked to Nepal royal massacre weds in India
Devyani Rana, once the girlfriend of Nepal's crown prince Dipendra who killed himself and nine relatives in a 2001 palace bloodbath, wed an Indian politician's son in New Delhi, reports said Sunday.