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Missile Row
Bush seeks to ease tension with Russia
President George W Bush yesterday sought to ease tensions with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as the world's wealthiest nations struggled to reach a deal on combating climate change.
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Lanka cops force Tamils out of capital
Armed Sri Lankan police forced hundreds of ethnic minority Tamils out of the capital Colombo yesterday as part of an effort to clear the city of feared Tamil Tiger cells, officials and witnesses said.
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Pakistan suspends new media curbs
The Pakistani government has suspended the introduction of tight restrictions on broadcasters following an uproar at home and criticism abroad, officials said yesterday.
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Pak judge wanted to head govt: Spy chief
Pakistan's top judge wanted President Pervez Musharraf to dissolve the government and make him head of an interim regime several months before his ouster, the country's military intelligence directorsaid
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'Indian rebels shifting its camps to Nepal'
One of the main guerrilla groups fighting Indian rule in the remote northeast is shifting its camps to Nepal following crackdowns in other neighbouring countries, an ex-rebel said Wednesday.
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Cyclone Gonu blamed for 15 deaths
Semi-trucks were trapped in flooded highways here Thursday after Cyclone Gonu battered Oman's coast on its path toward the world's most important crude oil tanker route.
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Abbas-Olmert summit cancelled
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday cancelled a planned summit meeting this week with Ehud Olmert, saying the Israeli leader has failed to accept any of his suggestions for reducing tensions,
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39 still detained in CIA secret prisons
A coalition of human rights groups has drawn up a list of 39 terror suspects it believes are being secretly imprisoned by US authorities and published their names in a report released yesterday.
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N Korea test-fired missiles: Seoul
North Korea on Thursday test-fired short-range missiles, less than two weeks after its previous launch, the South Korean defence ministry said.
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30 Taliban killed or wounded in battle
Afghan and international troops killed or wounded more than 30 Taliban militants in the past 24 hours, while an Afghan soldier and a policeman were killed separately, officials said yesterday.
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