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Fighting between Sri Lankan government forces and members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) movement is causing a humanitarian crisis as civilians flee from their homes into rebel-held territory in the north of the country, local officials said on Monday.
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Police in China's far western region of
Xinjiang have arrested 82 suspected terrorists in five groups this year
after they 'allegedly plotted sabotage against the Beijing Olympics,'
state media said on Thursday. The official Xinhua news agency
said the new figure was announced by Chen Zhuangwei, the police chief
in the regional...
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Chief envoys from six nations negotiating the
end of North Korea's nuclear programme held talks in Beijing on
Thursday after a nine-month break, host nation China said.
The meeting would focus on 'steps and measures' to achieve the
'comprehensive and balanced' implementation of an agreement between the
six nations, foreign...
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Students protested in the East Timor capital
Dili on Wednesday, the third day of demonstrations against government
spending priorities, radio reports said.
Dozens have been arrested outside the National University where
hundreds of students have faced off against local police and United
Nations police.
Australia's ABC Radio...
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World champion hurdler Jana Rawlinson is out of the Beijing Olympics with a toe injury, news reports said Wednesday. Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper said the 400-metre hurdles specialist had pulled out of the Australia squad. She raced for the first time in nine months in Poland last week but her toe problem has recurred. ...
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The government of Afghanistan and the United
Nations on Wednesday appealed for more than 404 million dollars in aid
to feed 4.5 million Afghans who are in desperate need as a result of
the worldwide rise in food prices, poor harvests and drought.
Based on a UN report, last year Afghanistan was able to produce over 90
per cent of...
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Thailand's judiciary delivered another blow to
the country's shaky coalition government Wednesday when the
Constitution Court found acting Health Minister Chaiya Sasomsap guilty
of asset concealment, forcing him to quit his post. The
Constitution Court found Chaiya guilty of failing to fully declare his
wife's shareholdings in a...
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Communist partners of India's ruling United
Progressive Alliance Tuesday withdrew their support for the governing
coalition after failing to resolve differences over an India-US
civilian nuclear deal. The left-wing parties said they took
the decision soon after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement that
the government would...
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Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza
Gilani on Tuesday denied that the country's intelligence service had
any involvement in the recent suicide bombings in Kabul. On
Monday, a massive suicide bombing against India's embassy in Kabul
killed 44 people. Afghani officials alleged the attack could not have
succeeded without the...
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A bomb attack in Kabul killed nearly 40 people and wounded 141 others, on Monday, July 7. The explosion happened near the Indian Embassy and left serious damages.Dozens of bodies were thrown on the tree-lined streets in front of the embassy. The blast ripped through a crowd of people waiting in line for visas at the Indian Embassy in...
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A massive explosion from a suicide car bomb planted at the
gateway of the Indian Embassy in Kabul killed 41
people and injured approximately 150 on Monday in the most recent notice of an
acute decline in Afghanistan,
where struggle victims have exceeded Iraq’s in the past two months.
Afghanistan
made a sparsely disguised allusion...
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 What Happened at the VMA 2008 Last Night?
The MTV Video Music Awards set its show last night. It seems that for its 25th anniversary, the VMA chose to back up Britney Spears’ comeback. And she did it! She won...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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