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Indonesia scraps foreign troop pullout deadline
Wolfowitz sees closer US, Indonesian ties after tsunami disaster
Foreign forces including the US Navy will be able to continue tsunami relief operations in Indonesia beyond a March 26 deadline, the government said yesterday, as the country's confirmed death toll from
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Post-Tsunami Reconstruction
Lanka to arm itself with tough emergency laws
Sri Lanka is to arm itself with tough emergency laws before a major post-tsunami reconstruction effort backed by unprecedented international financial backing, officials said yesterday.
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Graner abuse sentence too lenient, say Iraqis
Many Iraqis reacted angrily yesterday to news that US soldier Charles Graner had been sentenced to 10 years in jail for his role in prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib jail, saying he should have faced harsher
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Journalist freed from US prison after 44 years
An award-winning black journalist convicted of murder three times by all-white juries in the 1961 death of a bank teller was set free after a racially-mixed jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
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Romanian becomes oldest woman ever to give birth
A 67-year-old Romanian yesterday became the oldest woman ever known to have given birth, although one of her twin girls died shortly afterwards, Bucharest's Giulesti Hospital said, in a report carried
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70 million Arabs still unable to read or write
Although illiteracy rates are generally falling in Arab countries, rising populations mean that the total numbers of people unable to either read or write continue to increase, an Arab League body devoted
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80 Afghans released from US custody
Eighty Afghan detainees were released from US custody at Bagram air base near Kabul yesterday ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Azha as part of an attempt to bring moderate Taliban supporters infrom
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Russian forces foiled 'another Beslan'
Russian security forces yesterday combed through the scene of an hours-long gunbattle with suspected pro-Chechen rebels in a southern republic who were reportedly preparing a terror attack like the Beslan
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