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Hamas set to overrun Gaza
Presidential compound comes under fire

Red Cross officials meet Rajapaksa
COLOMBO: Officials of the International Red Cross (IRC) and Red Crescent Movement met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Geneva on Thursday to seek information on action taken over the murder of two staff members of the Sri Lanka Red ...

BAE "faces'' probe in U.S.
Charge of bribery to win defence contract

U.S. officials' presence in Pakistan unusual?
ISLAMABAD: United States Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte will join Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher in Pakistan on Friday for a visit that increasingly has the looks of a mission to gauge the extent of President Pervez Musharraf's ...

Provision to abolish monarchy
KATHMANDU: Nepal's interim Parliament late on Wednesday passed a second amendment to the interim Constitution, giving powers to the lawmakers to abolish the country's 250-year old monarchy. The newly added Article 159 says two-thirds of the ...

Extortion cases against Hasina
DHAKA: Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate has asked the police and the immigration authorities to stop former Prime Minister and chief of the Awami League, Sheikh Hasina, from leaving the country. The court order came after the police sought ...

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Thai crisis deepens
SINGAPORE: With pro-democracy rallies becoming more frequent, Thailand's military junta, the Council for National Security (CNS), has affirmed that the situation is under control. However, a spokesman for deposed Prime Minister Thaskin ...

Sporadic attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq
BAGHDAD: A handful of Sunni mosques were attacked or burned on Thursday, but curfews and increased troop levels kept Iraq in relative calm a day after suspected Al-Qaeda bombers toppled the towering minarets of a revered Shia shrine. At least ...

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Polar explorer dead
Sir Wally Herbert, the polar explorer whose life read like a Boy's Own adventure, and who in 1969 became undisputedly the first man to walk to the North Pole, has died in hospital near his Scottish home, aged 72. Sir Wally reached the North Pole ...

Limited clearance for big African ivory sale
CITES approves a compromise formula

Waldheim is dead
VIENNA: Former UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who was elected Austrian President died today. He was 88. Waldheim, who was hospitalised in Vienna late last month with an infection, died at home of heart failure at 1245 p.m. (1625 IST), ...

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