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Heavy rain in south India kills 45
31 others drown as boats sink
Heavy rains and flooding killed at least 45 people in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and left nearly 100 children stranded on the roof of their school, a top government official said yesterday.

Hamas offers talks with rival Fatah
Abbas orders probe into Gaza fiasco
The Hamas masters of the Gaza Strip called for talks with their defeated rivals Saturday, an appeal swiftly rejected by the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, which set up an inquiry into the rout

Karzai blasts Nato for civilian deaths
52 civilians killed in raids
Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday accused Nato and US-led forces of carelessly killing civilians in recent operations, and suggested the international community considered Afghan lives to be "cheap.

Blair holds private talks with pope at Vatican
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair met yesterday with Pope Benedict XVI in a private audience at the Vatican, raising speculation the outgoing premier may convert to Catholicism.

Tearful Hindus pray for return to Indian Kashmir
Under tight security thousands of Hindus who fled a Muslim insurgency in Indian Kashmir's summer capital offered prayers yesterday at a revered temple many had not worshipped at for decades.

Rocket kills 9 in Pakistan
Blast kills 4 soldiers
A rocket fired by coalition forces in Afghanistan killed at least nine civilians in a nearby Pakistani tribal area when it hit their home, an official said yesterday.

US, North Korea set July timeline to shut reactor
The top US nuclear negotiator arrived in Japan Saturday to discuss his surprise visit to North Korea, which he said yielded an agreement that could lead to a shutdown of the communist state's plutonium-producing

Israel detains key Hamas militant in West Bank
Israeli security forces detained a founding member of Hamas's military wing in the occupied West Bank in a pre-dawn raid yesterday, sources on both sides said.

12 rescued from ship stranded off India's coast
The Indian coast guard yesterday rescued 12 of two dozen crew members on a sinking cargo vessel stranded in the Arabian Sea off the west coast of India, the local maritime rescue centre said.

Pakistan radicals release Chinese 'brothel' workers
Students from a radical mosque released yesterday nine hostages who had earlier been taken from an alleged brothel in the Pakistani capital, a mosque leader said.

Environment woes key source of Sudan conflicts: UN report
Lasting peace in Sudan will not be possible unless the fractious country takes serious steps to address alarming environmental woes, said a UN report published on Friday.