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Journalists quit
MOSCOW/BERLIN: A group of journalists at a state-controlled broadcast news agency in Russia have resigned en masse in one of the few open rebellions in recent years against censorship imposed by the Kremlin. Eight reporters from the Russian News ...

INTERNATIONAL
Brown heckled over Iraq
LONDON: Gordon Brown, Britain's Prime Minister-in-waiting, had his first taste of public anger over Iraq when he was heckled at a Labour Party meeting on Sunday, forcing him to admit that it had been a very "divisive and difficult issue.'' Mr. ...

INTERNATIONAL
Lebanese troops surround militants
Tension spreads to the Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon

Four soldiers killed in clash with Tigers
COLOMBO: At least four soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), a member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) and scores of LTTE cadres were reported killed in pitched battles between the military and Tigers in the north on Monday. A ...

Musharraf says he has no ethnic affiliation
ISLAMABAD: Fighting off accusations since the May 12 Karachi violence that he used the ethnic card to thwart Opposition protests in the city, President Pervez Musharraf reiterated on Monday that he has no ethnic affiliation and that he is first ...

Pakistan protests remark
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Monday said it had lodged a strong protest with the British Government against remarks by High Commissioner Robert Brinkley that President Pervez Musharraf must give up his uniform by the end of this year and hold ...

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Khaleda aide jailed
DHAKA: Bangladesh's immediate past Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's political secretary Harris Chowdhury was jailed for three years by a special court in a graft case on Monday. This is the first ever judgment by the special court in a bigwig ...

Pledge to boost ties
MOSCOW: Belarus and Iran have agreed to expand bilateral trade 14-fold, focussing on cooperation in energy and high technologies. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is paying a two-day official visit to Belarus, described its President ...

India & World
Pakistan hits out at Indian media
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday condemned the Hyderabad blast that claimed 16 lives as a "terrorist act." It, however, rejected allegations in the Indian media that elements based in this country masterminded the attack. "The pattern is that ...

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