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Top Indo-Pak officials review progress
Peace process format on talks agenda, troops kill Kashmir rebels
Top diplomats from India and Pakistan began talks in a slow-moving peace process yesterday, hours after Indian troops shot dead nine rebels trying to cross into its part of disputed Kashmir from the Pakistani
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Kashmir rebels accept Manmohan's talks offer
Kashmiri separatists agreed yesterday to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said they would "proceed with courage" to press for an end to decades of violence in the Himalayan state.
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Nepali Congress drops support for monarchy
Nepal's largest political party yesterday dropped a 60-year-old written pledge to uphold constitutional monarchy, seven months after King Gyanendra seized complete power in the impoverished Himalayankingdom.
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Looting spirals in New Orleans
Thousands feared drowned, city mayor calls for all-out evacuation
With thousands feared drowned in what could be America's deadliest natural disaster in a century, New Orleans' leaders all but surrendered the streets to floodwaters Wednesday and began turning out the
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World leaders deplore Baghdad stampede
Shia Iran on Wednesday led a worldwide chorus of horror and outrage over the deaths of almost 1,000 people in a stampede as they headed to a Shia shrine in Iraq, blaming "suspicious hands" bent on causing
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Israel okays historic Egypt deployment
Israel's parliament Wednesday approved an historic plan for Egyptian border guards to patrol along the Gaza border after the last Israeli troops leave the Palestinian territory next month.
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