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LTTE hand suspected in two attacks in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, MARCH 27.Sri Lanka today saw the return of bloody violence, with three Sri Lankan Tamils — including a former Minister and a senior Government officer — shot at by "unidentified gunmen'' in three separate incidents. T. ...

They are no more `kingmakers'
HATTON (SRI LANKA), MARCH 27. For nearly three decades, Sri Lanka's economically weakest voter — the plantation hand — was the `kingmaker' in Parliament. "Not so now," says O. Jeyaraj, the proprietor of a pharmacy near this upcountry ...

Musharraf vows to act strongly against Al-Qaeda
ISLAMABAD, MARCH 27. The Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, has said that the Al-Qaeda was behind the recent assassination attempts on him as well as most of the terrorist attacks in Pakistan and vowed to eliminate the outfit from the soil of ...

Freedom Alliance has an edge
COLOMBO, MARCH 27. With less than a week before Sri Lanka's April 2 parliamentary election, the race is still close between the Ranil Wickremesinghe-led United National Front (UNF) and the Freedom Alliance of President Chandrika ...

U.S. to hand-pick Iraqi Prime Minister?
BAGHDAD, MARCH 27. As transfer of power looms, the U.S. President, George W Bush, sets hopes on Shia technocrat, in third strategy shift in six months. The U.S. will transfer power in Iraq to a hand-picked Prime Minister, abandoning plans for ...

Other Stories

Charles Sobhraj denied bail

A medical procedure as photo opportunity

Violence in Iraq leaves 20 dead

Unocal `suspends' gas export project

Muslims urged to `resist' extremists

No move to sell F-16s to Pakistan, says U.S.

Mars — a new home for man?

India & World
U.S. helping India, Pakistan overcome problems: Powell
WASHINGTON, MARCH 27.The U.S. is ``still working'' to reconcile old adversaries in South Asia and elsewhere, the Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has said. ``We still work to reconcile old adversaries, our efforts in the Middle East, in ...

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