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India offers Lanka help to redesign air-defence
Donors postpone talks with Tigers
India has offered to assist its southern neighbour Sri Lanka redesign its air-defence network after allegations that Tamil Tiger rebels have acquired at least two aircraft, a report said yesterday.
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Hundreds feared dead as China floods raze villages
Floods caused by torrential rain have turned vast tracts of farmland in south China into muddy lakes, razed mountain villages and destroyed more than 36,000 homes, possibly killing hundreds of people.
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China opposes UNSC enlargement
Japan still hopeful
China would block any move to give Japan, India, Brazil and Germany permanent seats in an enlarged UN Security Council, China's UN ambassador Wang Guangya said Thursday.
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Human Trafficking
Pak name dropped from US watchlist
The United States has removed Pakistan from its watchlist on human trafficking, but Islamabad needs to do more to stamp out the practice, the US embassy said yesterday.
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EU constitution worries aspiring members
Stuck on the sidelines, the nations with the most to lose in the European Union's deadlock over its proposed new constitution could be the countries that don't yet belong.
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Rumsfeld eyes stronger ties with India
China's course uncertain
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday he expects US military ties with India to strengthen over the coming years and predicted that China's influence will decline unless it moves to a freer
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US warns of attack on Jakarta hotels
The US Embassy in Jakarta warned Americans on Friday of a threat to bomb lobbies of hotels in the city, less than a week after blasts killed 22 people in an Indonesian area marked by Muslim-Christianviolence.
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Syria tested three Scud missiles
Syria test fired three Scud missiles a week ago, one of which broke up over two Turkish villages causing no injuries, in an act of defiance to the United States and the United Nations, The New York Times
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Nepalese UN soldier killed in DR Congo
A Nepalese UN peacekeeper died overnight from injuries he sustained in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled region of Ituri, the UN mission here announced yesterday.
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