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70 Taliban killed in offensive
Afghan security forces and international troops have killed 70 Taliban rebels in a week-long push to drive the militants from a southern district, an intelligence department statement said Saturday.
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US is true nuclear proliferator: Iran
Iran on Friday accused the United States of being the true violator of the Nonproliferation Treaty as a global conference ended without managing to bridge conflicting priorities on how to tighten thepact
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Indo-US nuke deal faces legal hurdle
India's Supreme Court is to hear a petition, which says the country's landmark civilian nuclear deal with the United States could threaten national security, a report said yesterday.
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Brown declines to set Iraq pullout dates
Britain's likely next prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday he intended to visit Iraq soon, but declined to set a timetable for withdrawing British forces from the country.
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Afghan parliament sacks FM
Afghanistan's parliament voted to sack the war-torn country's foreign minister yesterday amid an uproar over Iran's forced return of thousands of refugees.
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Roadside bomb kills 8 Afghan cops
Eight Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb tore through their vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar yesterday, a police commander said.
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Cheney on unannounced S Arabia visit
US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday, the most senior US official to visit since King Abdullah railed at the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of Iraq.
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Tiger attack costs Shell $700,000
The Sri Lankan unit of Royal Dutch Shell suffered damages of at least 700,000 dollars in an air attack by Tamil Tiger rebels last month, the company said yesterday.
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