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Pakistan wants to settle row with Afghanistan
Says Pak PM
Pakistan's Prime Minister called yesterday for more talks with Afghanistan to settle differences between the two neighbours after Kabul accused Islamabad of harbouring the Taliban leader.
 
I've gambled career for peace with Maoists
Says Nepali PM
Nepal's elderly Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala said yesterday he had gambled his 60-year political career to strike a deal with Maoist rebels and bring peace to the Himalayan country.
 
Nepal govt appeals for arms handover
Nepal's home minister said yesterday that all illegal weapons in the country must be handed over to police within a week as part of a security plan for the first national polls in eight years this June.
 
Ukraine rivals meet amid power struggle
Ukraine's pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych held crisis talks with his western-backed rival President Viktor Yushchenko yesterday over a power struggle that has spawned mass protests.
 
23 Tigers killed in fresh Lankan fighting
Sri Lankan security forces have killed at least 23 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting in the island's east following a deadly bus bombing, the defence ministry claimed yesterday.
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French train tops 350 mph to break record
A high-speed French train with a souped-up engine and wheels broke the world speed record Tuesday for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph.
 
Iranian diplomat seized in Iraq released
An Iranian diplomat in Iraq seized two months ago by uniformed gunmen in Baghdad has been released, Iran reported yesterday.
 

 
   
 
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