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Tigers preparing for major offensive
Lankan troops pound 2 LTTE targets in Batticaloa
Sri Lankan war planes pounded suspected Tamil Tiger targets for a third straight day yesterday after the defence ministry charged that the guerrillas were preparing for a major offensive.
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Military warns Delhi against glacier deal
'Kashmir insurgency deaths drop sharply'
India's million-plus military yesterday cautioned the government against extending concessions to Pakistan on a strategic glacier in disputed Kashmir.
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Pak tribesmen protest against madrasa raid
More than 5,000 armed men rallied in Pakistan's tribal belt yesterday, ahead of planned countrywide protests against an airstrike on an Islamic school in which 80 people were killed.
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Militants kill 2 alleged US spies in Pakistan
Militants beheaded an alleged US spy and shot dead another following a deadly air raid on a religious school in Pakistan's troubled tribal belt, security officials said yesterday.
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Nepali Maoist chief to visit India
The secretive chief of Nepal's Maoist insurgents will this month make his first high profile foreign visit since coming out of hiding in June when he travels to India to speak at a leadership conference,
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'Iraq violence levels not anticipated'
The United States and its allies had not expected the soaring level of violence and sectarian killings in Iraq in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on
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Nuke talks progress depends on US
North Korea's No 2 leader said yesterday that any progress at revived talks on the communist nation's nuclear programme will depend on the United States.
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UNSC mission to go to Afghanistan next week
Six killed in Taliban ambush
The Security Council will send a high-level team on a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan next week to review the threat posed by Taliban and al-Qaeda extremists, its current president said Thursday.
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UN Darfur force would create second Iraq
Warns Sudan as militias kill 63
Sudan will not accept UN peacekeeping forces into its troubled Darfur region as it would risk turning the country into a second Iraq, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said yesterday.
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UN refugee agency sounds alarm over crisis in Iraq
The UN refugee agency has warned donors that it is "distressed" at the lack of an international response to a growing humanitarian crisis in Iraq caused by alarming levels of violence, a spokesman said
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Carbon emission reached record levels in 2005
Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas blamed for climate change, reached in 2005 the highest levels ever recorded, the UN's weather agency said Friday.
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'Bush more dangerous to world peace than Kim'
US President George W Bush presents more of a threat to world peace than the leaders of North Korea and Iran, and only Osama bin Laden is more feared, according to a poll of British voters published in
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Democrats optimistic about Senate races
Democrats were starting to taste what they hope will be victory in one if not both chambers of Congress. Republicans, meanwhile, were playing down indications that many of their incumbents were in trouble.
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Indian media plays judge as justice system fails
A well-connected lawyer convicted for raping and murdering a young woman, senior politicians caught taking money under the table, guards suspended for throwing open the doors to a high-security jail for
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UK taking in 500 immigrants a day
The net inflow of people coming long-term into Britain last year was 500 a day, the second-highest level since 1991, official figures showed on Thursday.
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