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Militants end ME truce
Palestinian rebels blow up UN club
Palestinian militants marked the end of a truce agreement yesterday by firing a barrage of rockets towards southern Israel and detonating explosives in a beachfront UN club in Gaza City.
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Analysts Say
Talks key to halting Lanka's slide to war
Sri Lanka could slide back into civil war early in the New Year unless the government and Tamil Tiger rebels agree to meet face-to-face and save their fragile truce, according to analysts and mediators.
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Revellers ring in New Year
Revellers around the world rang in the New Year with the usual fireworks and fanfare accompanied by calls for peace from the US and Iraqi presidents.
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Churchill was willing to let Gandhi die
Winston Churchill, Britain's World War II prime minister, was prepared to let Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi starve to death if he went on hunger strike while interned during the war, archives
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Five children, woman burned alive in Bihar
Five children and a woman were burned to death in their home yesterday by a rival family over a dispute about missing buffaloes in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, police said.
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