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Lankan ruling party may call snap polls
Sri Lanka's ruling party may call snap elections after its success in local polls gave it a chance to break away from hardline allies opposed to a peace process with Tamil rebels, analysts say.
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Congress faces tough polls test in Assam
Voting begins in restive Assam today, kicking off polls in five states being seen as the biggest electoral test of the Congress party-led federal alliance since it won power in May 2004.
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Militants attack Pak military base
Four killed in blasts
Suspected militants attacked a military base in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, killing one soldier and injuring four others, an intelligence official said yesterday.
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Hizbul derides Indo-Pak peace process
The largest Kashmiri militant group fighting Indian rule on Saturday derided a peace process between India and Pakistan and said separatists talking with the two governments were gaining nothing.
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Rice, Straw in Iraq to break govt deadlock
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made a surprise visit to Baghdad on Sunday to press Iraqi leaders to form a new government and avert a civil war.
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Victory may not be enough for Thaksin
Even a resounding victory for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in yesterday's election may not be enough to quell the street protests against him, analysts say.
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Talks on new Israeli govt begin
Israeli President Moshe Katsav was to begin hosting talks yesterday on forming a new government amid a slinging match between the winning Kadima party and Labour, its most likely coalition partner.
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Thousands protest US immigration reform
Thousands of demonstrators rallied in this conservative California town and in New York on Saturday to protest plans for a US legislative crackdown on illegal immigrants.
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