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Courts must be free
Says sacked Pak judge
The country's chief justice returned to the Supreme Court Saturday for the first time since being suspended by President Gen Pervez Musharraf, making his way through jubilant crowds before deliveringveiled
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3 Afghan aid workers released by Taliban
The Taliban released three Afghan aid workers yesterday who were kidnapped with two French colleagues nearly two months ago, a Taliban spokesman and relatives said.
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Taliban launches new Afghan operation
The Taliban has launched a new operation targeting government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, a spokesman said Sunday, as two policemen died in an ambush in the volatile south.
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Imran banned from travelling to Karachi
A prominent opposition lawmaker and staunch critic of President Gen Pervez Musharraf was banned from travelling to Karachi yesterday because of his "provocative" statements about deadly violence in the
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'Lanka set for more bloodshed’
A new wave of air and naval combat is likely in Sri Lanka as government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels step up battles that have killed more than 5,000 people since peace talks collapsed, analysts say.
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Suu Kyi supporters rally in Yangon
Hundreds of pro-democracy activists supported by foreign diplomats rallied Sunday near the home of Myanmar's detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, lighting candles to mark the election her party
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Bhutan takes another tilt at election
The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan takes another swing at the art of voting this week, undeterred by the challenges of reaching remote villages and a marked reluctance to abandon the monarchy.
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Palestinian factions hold truce talks
No Hamas leader is immune to attacks, says Olmert
Egyptian officials met members of the secular Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday, the first in a series of talks with rival factions aimed at cementing a fragile truce in Gaza,
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Lebanon sets deadline to end camp standoff
Lebanon has given Palestinian groups until the middle of the week to negotiate an end to a deadly standoff between troops and an Islamist militia holed up in a squalid refugee camp.
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Thousands flee Lebanon refugee camp, says UN
A majority of families from a besieged Palestinian refugee camp caught in the crossfire between Islamic militants and the Lebanese army have fled but thousands remain trapped inside, a UN official said
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Western spy networks discovered: Iran
Iran said Saturday it has uncovered spy rings organized by the United States and its Western allies, claiming on state-run television that the espionage networks were made up of "infiltrating elements
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Syrians vote for Assad in no-contest referendum
Syrians were voting yesterday in a no-contest referendum to give President Bashar al-Assad another seven years at the helm, in the face of an opposition boycott and a crackdown on dissidents.
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N Korean leader grooming sons as successors
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il is grooming two of his sons as potential successors and testing which of them is fit to head the Stalinist state, a report said yesterday.
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Kuwait switches weekend to Friday-Saturday
Kuwait yesterday decided to switch its weekend to Friday-Saturday from Thursday-Friday, starting on September 1, State Minister Faisal al-Hajji told the official KUNA news agency.
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Malaysian wives wary of Chinese maids
The women's wing of one of Malaysia's ruling parties has urged the government to rethink a plan to recruit domestic helpers from China, arguing they could seduce local married men, state press reported
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