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Musharraf hints at securing second term as President
Says the existing Electoral College would re-elect him

Blair shifts policy on foreign detenus
LONDON: In what is regarded as a significant policy shift, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said that foreign prisoners in Britain should be automatically deported back to their countries irrespective of whether it is safe for them to ...

Scientists discover antibiotic that can fight superbugs
It could prove invaluable against drug-resistant bacteria

Qarase sworn in Fiji Prime Minister
Seven Cabinet posts offered to Opposition Labour party

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Nepal Army worried

China, Pakistan agree on trade pact

105 die in violence across Afghanistan

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Hamas deploys militia
JERUSALEM: Hamas deployed a private army of about 3,000 armed men on the streets of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a challenge to the authority of the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas. The Islamist group said the force would restore order ...

Independence referendum
PODGORICA (SERBIA-MONTENEGRO): Montenegro's pro- and anti-independence camps on Thursday both expressed confidence of victory at an upcoming referendum that will decide whether the tiny Balkan republic becomes another European state or stays in ...

Cook's ship found?
NEW YORK: One of four 18th-century ships found on the sea bed off Rhode Island could be the Endeavour, the vessel Captain Cook commanded on his first epic voyage across the Pacific Ocean, say U.S. archaeologists. Marine experts have found the ...

India & World
India to join U.S.-backed gas pipeline project
To connect Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan

Feroze Khan put on Pakistan "black list"
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has put the veteran Bollywood actor, Feroze Khan on "black list," following his reported controversial remarks at a function in Lahore last month on the occasion of the premiere of his brother Akbar Khan's film Taj ...

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