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Lanka air force pounds Tamil Tiger territory
Sri Lanka's air force bombed Tamil Tiger territory in the far north on Tuesday in what the military called a preemptive strike on a training base, but the rebels said it was an unprovoked attack neartheir
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Hu aims to boost trust with India
Chinese President Hu Jintao said in New Delhi yesterday that he hoped to strengthen the centuries-old amity between China and India and build a trusting relationship between the world's two most populous
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Pakistan hopes to boost arms exports
Pakistan, whose defence-related exports exceeded $200 million in the last fiscal year, is touting locally built tanks and other weapons to carve a niche for itself in the global arms market, a top army
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Tibetans breach security at Sino-India talks
Police arrested more than a dozen Tibetan activists in separate incidents in New Delhi Tuesday after they tried to storm venues of meetings between Indian and Chinese leaders, in protests that drew arebuke
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Syria, Iraq restore ties to combat militants
Tehran invites Iraqi, Syrian presidents for summit
Iraq and Syria agreed to restore full diplomatic relations yesterday after a break of a quarter of a century, a move Iraq hopes may help stem what it says is Syrian support for militants.
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Israeli forces launch deep Gaza raids
Two more Palestinians killed
Israeli troops with tanks launched a deep raid into the Gaza Strip to strike a Palestinian militant stronghold yesterday, killing a gunman during clashes in which a woman also died, witnesses and hospital
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Divided IAEA puts off ruling on N-aid to Iran
The UN nuclear watchdog has put off until Thursday a decision on whether to block a disputed bid by Iran for help in building a nuclear reactor that could yield plutonium for atom bombs, diplomats said
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8 children die in China bus crash
Eight primary school students in China were killed and another nine seriously injured after an overcrowded bus driven by an unlicensed driver plunged off a bridge yesterday, state press reported.
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