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Lanka govt seeks peace talks with LTTE
Seven killed in violence
Sri Lanka's president offered to open peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday even as security forces were locked in combat with the guerrillas.
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Shoot-on-sight order to quell Rajasthan rioting
Death toll rises to 20
Police in northern India issued shoot-on-sight orders yesterday to stop arson attacks and rioting amid a week of ethnic clashes that have left at least 20 people dead.
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Musharraf fighting for his political life
Pak army chiefs voices support
Pakistan's president has survived two al-Qaeda assassination attempts, faced down opposition to his alliance with the US and held onto the support of fellow generals for nearly eight years.
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'US in truce talks with Iraqi insurgents'
The US is discussing cease-fires with some Iraqi insurgent groups in an effort to reduce attacks on US and Iraqi government forces, the number two head of US forces in Iraq said Thursday.
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'French Spiderman' jailed for Shanghai climb
Intrepid climber Alain Robert, nicknamed the "French Spiderman", has been jailed for five days after scaling China's tallest building, police and French officials said yesterday.
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Videotape of kidnapped BBC reporter surfaces
Kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston appeared Friday in a videotape posted on an Islamic militant Web site, saying his captors had treated him well, denouncing Israel and blasting British and US Middle
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Bush pushes new climate change plan
US President George W Bush said Thursday he would urge major industrialised nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol lapses.
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Iraq won't make US neglect Asia: Gates
Robert Gates is using his first Far East Asia trip as Pentagon chief to try to convince allies and potential enemies that the Iraq war has not weakened America's commitment to the region.
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Indian families seek POWs in Pakistan
A group of Indian families is travelling yesterday to Pakistan, where they will visit jails and scan their records, looking for traces of relatives in the military who went missing during the 1971 war
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Iraqi Sunnis revolt against al-Qaeda
US troops battled al-Qaeda in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced
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Cot death on rise in Australia
Cot death campaigners yesterday expressed concerns that the number of babies dying unexpectedly in their sleep was on the rise in Australia.
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Inter-Korean talks end without agreement
Reconciliation talks between North and South Korea ended yesterday with no agreements reached, following a row over Seoul's decision to link promised rice aid to Pyongyang's denuclearisation.
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Thaksin loyalists vow to voice anger at ballot box
Heavy security blankets this Thaksin Shinawatra stronghold but the ousted prime minister's supporters say they will voice their anger over his ban from politics at the ballot box, not on the streets.
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