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Lankan troops take key highway from Tigers
Fighting leaves 9 soldiers, 184 Tigers dead
Sri Lankan forces have captured a strategic highway in the island's restive eastern province, which was under Tamil Tiger control for 15 years, the defence ministry said yesterday.
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Pak tribesmen kill 300 foreign militants
Says Musharraf
President Gen Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that tribesmen have killed about 300 foreign militants during a weeklong offensive near the Afghan border and acknowledged for first time that they received
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al-Qaeda bombings kill 33 in Algeria
The death toll from al-Qaeda-claimed suicide bombings in Algeria rose Thursday to 33, the government said, as police rolled out in force in the shaken capital, establishing highway checkpoints to reinforce
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Lanka uses anti-terror laws to crush media
Says rights group
Sri Lanka is using tough anti-terror laws to suppress democratic dissent and journalists who expose human rights abuses, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged yesterday.
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Pak sectarian clashes leave dozens dead
Gunfights erupted again yesterday in villages near the Afghan border where clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims have killed at least 55 people over the past week, an official said.
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'N Korea now ready to close N-plants'
After weeks of stalemate over a financial dispute, North Korea is now ready to shut down its main nuclear facilities and accept UN nuclear inspectors, US officials who visited Pyongyang said Wednesday.
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Indian missile test fire successful
India successfully test fired a new missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads across much of Asia and the Middle East, a defence ministry spokesman said yesterday.
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Chinese PM offers friendship to Japan
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao offered Japan the hand of friendship Thursday in a call to put aside bitter memories of the past that have hobbled relations between the two Asian giants.
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