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US, Afghan forces ring 4 Taliban commanders
132 militants killed in 3 days of fighting
Afghan and US forces have killed 132 Taliban militants and surrounded four of the ousted regime's top commanders after a three-day battle in the south of the country, officials said yesterday.
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Lanka set to enter aid deal with Tigers
Marxists warn of protests
Sri Lanka is on the verge of clinching a deal with Tamil Tiger rebels on sharing foreign aid for post-tsunami reconstruction, official sources said yesterday, as Norway kept up shuttle diplomacy to save
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US spyplane crashes after Afghan mission
Pilot killed
The pilot of a US Air Force U-2 spy plane was killed on Wednesday when the plane crashed after a reconnaissance mission over Afghanistan, the US military said.
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Militants move to woo Hindus back to Kashmir homes
Moderate Kashmiri separatists in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir will try to persuade Hindus to return to the homes they fled at the start of the anti-Indian insurgency, a separatist leader said Wednesday.
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Aid Agencies Say
Tsunami relief effort in critical phase
Six months after the tsunami that battered countries around the Indian Ocean, the unprecedented international relief effort spurred by the disaster is in a critical phase, aid agencies said Wednesday.
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Nepali writer seeks to unravel woes of homeland
Writer Manjushree Thapa was only 21 when she returned to her Nepalese homeland after attending college in the United States and found herself in the midst of the heady "Spring Awakening of 1990".
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Asia heat wave toll hits 390
A blistering heat wave has been blamed for at least 390 deaths across India and Pakistan, but officials said yesterday that monsoon rains could bring relief next week.
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Parents fail to claim freed Pak camel jockeys
They have finally returned home from a brutal life in the United Arab Emirates, but 22 Pakistani children who worked as camel jockeys have still not been claimed by their parents.
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G8 FMs rally round Afghanistan
US turns up heat on Syria
Foreign ministers from the Group of Eight nations began a one-day meeting in London yesterday with a pledge to remain committed to Afghanistan beyond the war-shattered country's elections in September.
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Blair asks EU to change or fail
The European Union faces a "crisis in political leadership" and must change to win back public support, Prime Minister Tony Blair has told Euro MPs.
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Floods ravage China
97 die, 1.4 million flee homes to take shelter in higher ground
At least 97 people were dead and over 60 missing after torrential rains and floods pounded southern China, sending some 1.4 million evacuees fleeing for higher ground, the government said yesterday.
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Rafsanjani moves to thwart hardliners
Run-off vote today
Iranian regime veteran Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces the hardline Tehran mayor today in a presidential election that could hand the anti-Western right unchallenged power but whose outcome is too close
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New Saddam novel to hit market soon
A novel said to have been penned by ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein telling the story of an Arab warrior who saves a town from a plot to overthrow its ruler is to be published soon, a newspaper reported
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