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Bad weather hampers quake relief effort
Survivors go hungry, death toll lower than thought
Bad weather and infrastructure damage hampered relief efforts in quake-hit northwestern Indonesia yesterday, relief agencies said, as survivors in remote areas were reportedly going hungry.
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US Panel report reveals
Spy agencies 'dead wrong' on WMDs
In a scathing report, a presidential commission said yesterday that America's spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war and that
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10 Iraqis killed in bombings
American, 3 Romanians kidnapped
Two car bombs killed at least 10 Iraqis near Shia shrines yesterday as the community marked a major religious festival and a US citizen and three Romanian journalists were shown being held hostage inthe
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Abbas orders crackdown after attack on his HQ
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered a crackdown yesterday on Ramallah militants who defied demands that they lay down their arms under peace moves he had agreed with Israel.
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US court rejects Schiavo parents' latest appeal
Nearly two weeks after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was disconnected, her parents endured two more legal setbacks in their fight to keep her alive when the US Supreme Court and a federal appeals court
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N Korea calls for arms reduction talks
North Korea said yesterday that six-way talks aimed at ending a standoff over its nuclear program should be transformed into arms reduction negotiations as it has already produced atomic weapons.
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South Asia
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Delhi, Islamabad fail to reach missile test pact
Pakistan test-fires short-range missile
Pakistan has failed to reach a formal agreement with nuclear rival India on giving advance warning of missile tests due to rows over sharing sensitive details on launch sites and trajectories, a minister
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Chinese FM in Nepal to boost ties
China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing flew into Nepal yesterday to boost ties with a neighbour shunned by much of the international community since King Gyanendra seized power two months ago.
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Pak forces net 6 terror suspects
Pakistani security agencies have arrested six suspected al-Qaeda-linked foreigners in a swoop on their hideout near the Afghan border, officials said Thursday.
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Tsunami panic killed 5 in Lanka
At least five people were killed when thousands fled inland from Sri Lanka's battered coastal areas during this week's tsunami warning, police said Wednesday.
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Human rights body blasts Gayoom
A Maldivian opposition party and an Asian rights organisation Wednesday lashed out at President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who is currently visiting India, accusing him of scuttling democracy and responsibility
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