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Tehran considering US 'proposals' for Iraq talks
'New UN sanctions on Iran to be incremental'
Iran is considering "proposals" which it has received from the United States for talks about Iraq's security, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
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Pakistan blasts US hot pursuit claim
American, Pak agents interrogating Taliban leader
Pakistan vehemently denied yesterday the US military's claim that coalition forces in Afghanistan have the authority to pursue Taliban fleeing across the border into Pakistani territory.
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Strike on Iran would destabilise region
Says France
Any military strike against Iran in the dispute over its nuclear programme would risk destabilising the region, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said in an interview released on Friday.
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China warns US on Taiwan arms sales
China warned visiting US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte that plans to sell American missiles to Taiwan threatened to harm Sino-US ties, a Chinese spokesman said Saturday.
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Delhi, Naga rebels talk peace
Separatist tribal rebels from India's northeast and government negotiators launched fresh talks in New Delhi yesterday in a bid to keep alive a peace process in the restive region, rebel officials said.
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Lanka steps up security for diplomats
5 bodies of execution-style killing found
Sri Lanka is stepping up security for diplomats following a Tamil rebel attack against a helicopter in which envoys were travelling, the foreign ministry said Saturday.
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Pakistan test fires short-range missile
Pakistan successfully test-fired a short-range nuclear-capable, surface-to-surface ballistic missile on Saturday, the military said. The Hatf-II Abdali had a range of 200 km, it said in a statement.
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Ahmadinejad visits KSA amid crises
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was due in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks with King Abdullah expected to focus on the sectarian bloodshed in Iraq, the crisis in Lebanon and Tehran's nuclearrow
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BBC gagged over political funding scam
The British Broadcasting Corporation has been stopped from broadcasting a story about a political funding scandal that has cast a shadow over Prime Minister Tony Blair's final months, police said yesterday.
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Saudi beheaded for murdering compatriot
A Saudi national was beheaded by the sword yesterday in the Red Sea town of al-Lith after being convicted of shooting dead a compatriot, the interior ministry said.
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5 shot dead in Thai south
Five people, including two teenage girls, were shot dead in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said yesterday, as the region endured another bout of violence.
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Pakistan arrests 12 Indian fishermen
Pakistan said yesterday its coast guard has seized five Indian boats and arrested 12 fishermen for illegal fishing in the country's territorial waters in the Arabian Sea.
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Pope names new archbishop of Warsaw
Pope Benedict XVI has named Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop in northern Poland, to succeed Cardinal Jozef Glemp as archbishop of Warsaw, the Vatican announced yesterday.
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