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16 killed as LTTE, army clash
COLOMBO: At least 16 persons, including 12 soldiers of the Sri Lankan Army (SLA), were killed in a major confrontation between the military and the LTTE in Vakaneri, Batticaloa, on Friday morning. "Yes, there was a battle with the LTTE. ...

Israel ratchets up Lebanon campaign
Bombing of Beirut-Damascus highway threatens to draw Syria into the escalating conflict

Nepal talks next week
KATHMANDU: Top leaders of Nepal's political parties held several hours of informal talks with Maoist representatives on Friday in an attempt to bridge differences among them and to prepare the ground for formal talks. The leaders, who met at a ...

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Plame sues Cheney
WASHINGTON: The former CIA officer, Valerie Plame, and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, said on Friday they decided to sue Vice-President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove because they engaged in a ``whispering ...

Woman official killed
KABUL: An Afghan woman official has been killed in central Afghanistan by Taliban militants, the Afghan National TV reported on Thursday night. Zahra, the first female official murdered after the Taliban regime collapsed in 2001, was working in ...

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Pakistani nationals remanded
KATHMANDU: The two Pakistani nationals arrested on Tuesday by the Nepal police have been remanded to custody for five days by the Kathmandu District Court. The district police office had produced Gulam Hussein Chima and Aftab Mohadin ...

Manmohan a positive human being: Musharraf
ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf has said the political leadership in India and Pakistan must rise above the designs of extremists to carry forward the peace process. In an interview late on Thursday to Business Plus , a private ...

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