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Alleged ISI Link With Mumbai Bombing
Indo-Pak peace talks strained yet again
India and Pakistan's slow-moving peace process will likely be strained but not derailed by charges that Islamabad's spy agency had a role in the Mumbai train bombings, analysts said yesterday.
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'Lanka heading for snap polls by year's end'
Norwegian envoy resumes peace bid
Sri Lanka's president has asked his party to prepare for general elections before year's end if the main opposition fails to back his minority government, a state-run newspaper said yesterday.
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ISI under fire from all sides
Five years into a war on terrorism, abiding distrust of Pakistan among allies and neighbours was laid bare in the past few days through a series of accusations against its military secret service.
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Nato to lead US troops in Afghanistan
Nato will take command of up to 12,000 US troops and the territory they control in Afghanistan in "few days," a spokesman for the alliance said yesterday.
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Bus careens off bridge in China: 30 die
A bus careened off a bridge and plunged nearly 100 feet into a river Sunday, killing 30 people in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, a government news agency said.
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Lebanon war a defeat for Israel, say analysts
Israel's war in Lebanon ended in failure for its leadership, stirred domestic discontent, exposed the menace of Iran and underscored the need to solve the Palestinian conflict, analysts say.
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Karzai, Musharraf to lead tribal talks
President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday that he and the Pakistani president will jointly lead a series of tribal gatherings along their countries' shared border to quell attacks on Afghanistan by Pakistan-based
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Iran crisis overshadows Israeli-Palestinian row
Rice visits ME this week
The looming nuclear crisis with Iran is likely to overshadow timid efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process when US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Middle East this week,
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No sign of life at Brazil plane crash site
Military searchers parachuted down on Saturday to the wreckage of a Brazilian passenger plane that crashed a day earlier in remote Amazon jungle with 155 people on board.
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Lula sweep uncertain as Brazilians go to polls
Brazilians lined up to vote on Sunday amid signs that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, though still the champion of the poor and workers, may have squandered his chances of a first-round victory because
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40 die as Nigerian dam collapses
At least 40 people were killed and 1,000 displaced when a dam collapsed near Gusau, capital of northern Nigerian Zamfara State due to torrential rains, a government spokesman said yesterday.
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