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Lanka accuses Tigers of breaching truce
Sri Lanka's military yesterday accused Tamil Tiger rebels of carrying out artillery and mortar attacks against troop camps in the east of the island, despite a pledge to stick to a truce.
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Swapping guns for brooms
Maoists clean up Kathmandu in charm offensive
Swapping guns for brooms, hundreds of rebel Maoists have started a clean-up campaign in Nepal's polluted and often filthy capital in a bid to gain wider respectability.
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Airstrike on Madrasa
Pak troops seal off troubled town
Pakistani troops yesterday sealed off a troubled frontier zone amid a third day of tensions over a deadly air raid on an Islamic school that was visited by al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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Iraq issues veiled threat to 'plotting' neighbours
40 Shias kidnapped, 8 slain in fresh attacks
A senior Iraqi security official issued a veiled threat Tuesday to neighbouring countries whom he accused of sponsoring insurgents who carry out deadly attacks.
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No quick deal in sight on N Korea nuke row
Three weeks after its nuclear test, North Korea said on Wednesday it was returning to six-party talks because Washington had agreed to discuss the financial sanctions Pyongyang says drove it from thenegotiating
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Rice urges major powers to speed up Iran sanction
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called her major power counterparts Tuesday in a bid to spur tough negotiations at the United Nations over a sanctions resolution against Iran, a senior US official
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Bush-Kerry rivalry revived
An embarrassing faux pas by 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry sparked President George W Bush's Republicans yesterday, six days before key Congressional elections.
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Blair still on the rack on Iraq war probe
British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced fresh pressure Wednesday to hold a new inquiry into the Iraq war despite winning a crunch vote, after a key minister suggested a probe will be held after all.
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