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Abbas trashes talks with Hamas 'terrorists'
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas delivered a withering attack on Hamas Wednesday in his first public speech since the Islamists' takeover of Gaza and ruled out any dialogue.
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'Taliban hunt spies, target Kabul’
The Taliban in Afghanistan are hunting Nato spies who they say have infiltrated the movement and are aiming to mount more Iraq-style suicide bombings on Kabul, a spokesman told the BBC on Thursday.
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Protests against Rushdie go on
Muslim anger flared yesterday after Britain defended Salman Rushdie's knighthood, with fresh protests against the novelist and Pakistani clerics bestowing a title on Osama bin Laden in response.
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Corruption charges against Thaksin
Thai prosecutors filed corruption charges against ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the Supreme Court yesterday, in the first formal charges lodged against the exiled former premier.
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Riots in Pakistan over power outage
Hundreds of people protesting against power cuts ransacked a KFC outlet and two banks in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, police said yesterday.
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Now Lanka can shoot down rebel jet
Sri Lanka's military now has the capacity to shoot down Tamil Tiger light airplanes which have bombed four targets on the island this year, the government said Wednesday.
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10 die in Russian retirement home fire
Ten people were killed yesterday in a suspected arson attack on a retirement home in the Omsk region in Siberia, Russian news agencies reported, citing officials.
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Left Front celebrates 30th anniversary in power
Next only to the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan which ruled the island nation for 38 years, CPI(M)-led Left Front on Thursday, earned the rare distinction of completing 30th year in power uninterruptedly
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Pak traders offer reward for Rushdie beheading
Pakistani traders yesterday announced a reward of 10 million rupees (165,000 dollars) for anyone who beheads Salman Rushdie following Britain's decision to award the novelist a knighthood.
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