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Rajapakse win irks Tamil Tigers
LTTE blasts new president's inaugural speech
Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels reacted angrily yesterday to the election of hardline President Mahinda Rajapakse and his inaugural speech, saying they showed the country's Sinhalese majority had no understanding
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Killer quake bridges Kashmir divide
Last month's earthquake killed tens of thousands in Kashmir but, for divided families in the disputed region, it also opened up new routes to reunite with long-lost relatives across the frontier.
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Restoration of democracy
Koirala asks Maoists to join move
Nepal's veteran former prime minister G.P. Koirala said Saturday he has appealed to Maoist rebels to ally with mainstream parties to restore democracy in the insurgency-racked nation.
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Taliban abducted Indian engineer
3 killed in attack on ex-warlord's vehicle
Taliban insurgents have kidnapped an Indian road engineer in southern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the militant group said yesterday.
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Iran sees no case for referral to UN
Iran said yesterday any decision to refer its nuclear case to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions would be purely political and not based on evidence Tehran was trying to build a nuclear weapon.
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Tension runs high in 2nd round of Egypt election
Egyptian forces arrested 200 supporters of the Muslim Brothers before the second round of Egypt's parliamentary election kicked off yesterday, amid fears of government attempts to curb the Islamist movement's
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Gamma kills 12 in Central America
Tropical Storm Gamma lashed Central America on Saturday and killed at least 12 people, three of them in a plane crash on their way to a luxury jungle lodge owned by film director Francis Ford Coppola.
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Laden evades capture by Pak troops
al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, has evaded capture by Pakistani troops by just 30 minutes as they zeroed in on him in a remote village close to the Afghan border, a
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8 die in Russian airplane crash
Eight people were killed when a small airplane crashed in the Moscow region, officials at Moscow's Domodedovo airport said early yesterday.
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Probe fails to land on asteroid
A Japanese space probe on a mission to bring back the world's first rock samples from an asteroid failed to touch down yesterday on its target nearly 300 million km (186 million miles) from earth.
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