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Koirala calls on king to restore democracy
Maoists bomb 2 bridges, slap blockade on key highway
Former Nepal prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala yesterday used his first day of freedom after two months of house arrest to demand King Gyanendra restore democracy immediately if he wants to defeatthe
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Pope a conservative who revolutionised the papacy
Pope John Paul II, who was slipping towards death Saturday, has revolutionised the papacy, contributing to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe but alienating many Roman Catholics with his conservative
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Zimbabwe opposition rejects polls result
Mugabe's party wins majority; US, UK term polls neither free nor fair
Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday rejected the result of a parliamentary election which handed a crushing victory to President Robert Mugabe's ruling party.
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Shias, Sunnis battle for Speaker's post
Five killed in car bomb blast
A car bomb killed five people near Baghdad yesterday, as Sunni and Shia Arab politicians were snagged in a dispute over who will be the speaker of Iraq's parliament, ahead of the body's next session.
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Hurriyat asks militants not to attack bus
Kashmiri militant groups yesterday repeated a threat to attack passengers on a bus service to be launched next week across the divided Kashmir region, despite a plea from a hardline separatist group to
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Abbas places Ramallah on state of alert
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas placed the security services in Ramallah on a "state of alert" Saturday following an incident in which militants fired into the air inside his compound, officials said.
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