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Lanka jets bomb rebel positions
Six soldiers killed
The Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least six soldiers and wounded another seven in eastern Sri Lanka yesterday as war planes bombed suspected guerrilla positions in the same region, officials said.
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Suicide attack kills 4 Pakistani soldiers
6 killed in Pak abduction attempt
A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing four soldiers, police and officials said.
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Mosque clampdown boosts Musharraf
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is riding high after cracking down on a radical mosque, with liberals who usually loathe him welcoming the move and no sign of an expected Islamist backlash.
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Sr Republican senator abandons Iraq policy
In another setback to President Bush's increasingly unpopular war strategy, GOP stalwart Sen. Pete Domenici said he wants to see an end to combat operations and US troops heading home from Iraq by spring.
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Mass grave unearthed in Afghan jail
A mass grave containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in an underground prison north of the Afghan capital, the BBC reported early yesterday.
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Strike paralyses Kashmir: 40 protesters injured
Forty people were hurt yesterday in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir when police fired teargas to break up protests over alleged rights abuses as a strike paralysed much of the state, police said.
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N Korea may shut down N-reactor early
North Korea said yesterday it is considering shutting down its nuclear reactor as soon as a first shipment of heavy fuel reaches the Stalinist state as part of a nuclear disarmament pact.
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Myanmar frees more NLD activists
Myanmar's military government has released four more activists who were detained last May after holding prayer vigils for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a spokesman for her party
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N Korea nuclear talks to resume in July
South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator said Friday that long-stalled talks on disarming North Korea's nuclear arsenal are to resume this month as Seoul prepared to ship a first batch of promised energy
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‘Global warming ravaging Mount Everest’
Global warming is radically changing the face of Mount Everest, the sons of the men who first reached its summit 54 years ago said in an interview published yesterday.
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India AIDS cases lower than thought
Says minister
The number of people living with HIV-AIDS in India stands at two million to 3.1 million, sharply lower than earlier estimates, the health minister announced on Friday.
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Japan seeks greater military role abroad
Japan's military is making international peacekeeping a priority, scrambling to bolster its missile defences and deepening its coordination with US troops, an annual report said Friday.
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Australian research reveals AIDS-cancer link
AIDS sufferers and transplant patients are at a much higher risk than the general population of developing a range of cancers, according to an Australian research released yesterday.
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