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Palestinians muster world support
Leaders demand immediate moves against terrorism
World powers have demanded immediate Palestinian action to catch those behind a Tel Aviv suicide bombing that has broken a fragile ceasefire with Israel.
 
70 rebels killed in Nepal clash
FM tells world community to choose king or communism
More than 70 Maoists have been killed in a fierce clash with Nepal's army, an official said yesterday as the foreign minister warned the world to accept the king's power grab or watch a communist takeover
 
HR Group Says
US rights report suffers from politics
China blasts US 'double standards'
A US State Department human rights report treated Latin American countries unequally, the result of US political priorities, a rights group said Monday.
 
Malaysia launches massive crackdown
First raid nets 62 illegal Indonesians
Malaysian officials yesterday launched a controversial operation to round up, whip and deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants following the end of a four-month amnesty.
 
Palestinians need peace, not just reform: Abbas
Palestinian reform efforts must be backed by peace negotiations with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas told an international meeting in London yesterday.
 
'Laden asks Zarqawi to make US a target'
al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden recently asked his chief ally in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to consider the territory of the United States as a target for terrorist attacks, a US counterterrorism official
 
Number of asylum seekers in rich states falls to 16-year low: UN
The number of asylum seekers arriving in industrialised countries has fallen to its lowest level in 16 years, after a third successive year of decline in 2004, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.
 
Saddam kept in total isolation, but in good health: Lawyer
Saddam Hussein is isolated from the rest of the world but in good health and was overjoyed when he learned that Spanish troops had left Iraq, a spokesman for the former strongman's legal team said yesterday.
 
Violence escalates as Norway fails to end Lankan deadlock
Sri Lanka yesterday investigated escalating violence as a top Norwegian envoy ended another mission without a breakthrough in restarting peace negotiations between Tiger rebels and the government, officials
 

 
   
 
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