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UN threatens to halt aid work in Lanka
Colombo demands proof of massacre charges
The United Nations threatened overnight to suspend aid operations in Sri Lanka after truce monitors accused the security forces of executing aid workers.
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Disappearances up in Asia
Says rights group
Several hundred people in Pakistan have disappeared, apparently taken into detention in connection with the war on terrorism, human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
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Pakistan troops find tribal chief's body
Pakistani soldiers searching a cave found the body of a fugitive tribal leader whose death in a military raid sparked large-scale unrest, but it was pinned under a boulder and will take days to retrieve,
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30 Indian drown as boat sinks in Ganges river
More than 30 people drowned after a crowded ferry capsized Thursday on the Ganges River in eastern India, officials said. The boat capsized 70km from Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar.
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Annan blasts Israel over cluster bombs
Israeli troops to leave after deployment of UN, Lebanese forces
UN chief Kofi Annan lambasted Israel Thursday for using cluster bombs during the war in Lebanon, on the latest leg of a mission to shore up a fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah.
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Iraq prepares to take charge of military
Iraqi insurgents killed at least 15 people yesterday and attacked a British diplomatic convoy, as Iraq took steps toward taking over operational military command from US-led coalition forces.
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