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Political killing ahead of election stuns Spain
Madrid: The killing of a political leader in the northern Basque region has shaken up the election scene in Spain. The attack was blamed on the Basque separatist organisation ETA. Isaias Carrasco, a former town councillor and member of ...

Power restored in all parts of China hit by winter storms
GUANGZHOU (CHINA): Power has been restored to all areas affected by the severe weather earlier this year, with the last damaged part of the grid re-connected in China’s southwest province of Guizhou. Every part of land-locked ...

Abkhazia calls for independence
MOSCOW: Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region on Friday asked the international community to recognise its self-proclaimed independence, according to reports reaching here. The Abkhaz regional legislature has adopted an appeal to the ...

Muslim, Catholic leaders to set up forum to defuse crises

Auschwitz survivor dies
LONDON: Leon Greenman, the only Englishman sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, died on Friday, London’s Jewish Museum said. He was 97. Mr. Greenman was born in London in 1910 but was living in the Netherlands with his Dutch ...

Myanmar rejects U.N. proposal for referendum observers

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Kashmir an “integral part” of Pakistan: Zardari
ISLAMABAD: Following a barrage of criticism about his remarks on Kashmir in an interview on Indian television, Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Ali Zardari has now described it as an “integral part” of Pakistan, and said ...

Singapore poised to ride China-India wave, says Prime Minister Lee
SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong struck a positive note on Saturday when he said that “China and India continue to surge ahead, despite the problems in the United States economy.” Sensing this as a new ...

U.K. pushing through identity cards scheme
LONDON: The British government has been accused of using foreign nationals living in Britain as “guinea pigs” in a bid to push through its controversial identity cards scheme. The criticism came after the government announced ...

A festival of South Asian films to set “tongues on fire”
Focus on domestic violence, religious intolerance

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