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India to change law to punish corrupt politicians
The Indian government has initiated steps to change the anti-corruption law to formally empower the presiding officers of parliament and state Assemblies to grant sanction to prosecute MPs and MLAs for
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‘Lanka facing attacks, int’l isolation’
Sri Lanka has vowed to wage more attacks against Tamil rebels but analysts warn it faces the prospect of devastating retaliation and risks international isolation over rising rights abuses.
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Flash floods leave 22 dead in Pakistan
Flash flooding caused by torrential rain and thunderstorms struck several villages in mountainous northwestern Pakistan, leaving at least 22 people dead, a senior government official said yesterday.
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Gazans rush to stock up on supplies
Queues are snaking outside bakeries and supermarkets in Gaza as frantic residents stock up on supplies amid fears their overcrowded land will remain sealed off from the world in the wake of an Islamist
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Abbas outlaws Hamas armed forces
Israeli troops enter northern Gaza
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday outlawed Hamas's armed wing and paramilitary force following the Islamists' takeover of Gaza, his office said.
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'US needs to make changes in N-deal’
Senior nuclear scientists say unless the US makes substantial changes in its civil nuclear deal with India, back and forth negotiations on the bilateral 123 agreement to implement the deal are meaningless.
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US forces kill 10 militants in Iraq
US forces killed 10 militants and detained nearly a dozen more in a series of operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in Iraq yesterday, the military said.
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Isaac Newton saw end of world in 2060
Renowned British scientist Sir Isaac Newton, the father of modern physics and astronomy, predicted the world would end in 2060 in a 1704 letter that went on show in Jerusalem yesterday.
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Myanmar slams US report on human trafficking
Military-run Myanmar yesterday denounced the US annual report on human trafficking, which blacklisted the country as one of the world's worst offenders for the seventh year, state-run media reported.
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Hopes raised after N Korea invites UN inspectors
Hopes were raised yesterday that North Korea would soon begin dismantling its atomic weapons programmes, after the communist state invited UN inspectors to discuss shutting down its main nuclear reactor.
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Thousands cheer sacked Pak judge
Thousands of Pakistanis braved the rain here yesterday to cheer the country's top judge, keeping the pressure on President Pervez Musharraf to end a crisis over the chief justice's ouster.
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Toxic algae poses new health scare in China
Two of China's biggest lakes are under renewed attack from toxic algae that destroy plant and fish life and threaten humans in the country's latest pollution scare, state media reported yesterday.
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Serb war crimes fugitive arrested
Montenegro arrested yesterday a former Serbian police general indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo, and ordered his transfer to the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague.
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