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China, Taiwan begin direct flights
TAIPEI: The first weekend charter flight across the Taiwan Strait landed here on Friday amid expectation of many to commute between the two sides within a day. More than 100 mainland tourists aboard the Airbus A330 of China Southern ...

Fresh row over Sharia in U.K.
LONDON: The controversy over whether Britain’s 1.6-million Muslims should have the right to practise Sharia laws was reignited on Friday after the country’s senior-most judge, Lord Chief Justice Phillips, said there was no reason ...

Time for partners to reciprocate: N. Korea
SINGAPORE: North Korea on Friday pledged to permit international verification of its nuclear declaration, but insisted the onus for any further progress towards its denuclearisation would lie squarely with its dialogue partners. The ...

Colombo denies charge
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Navy on Friday maintained Indian fisher folk were not under detention after it released all those on board 300 boats on Wednesday and Thursday. The boats had inadvertently drifted into the Sri Lankan waters. In ...

Hamas calls off prisoner-swap talks
GAZA CITY: Israel crossings with the Gaza Strip were closed on Friday in retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire that has violated a rocky truce. Hamas responded by suspending talks on freeing a long-held Israeli soldier. Under the ...

Civilians flee LTTE areas


SAARC action plan on climate change
DHAKA: Members of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have adopted a three-year action plan on climate change. The plan was adopted at the SAARC ministerial meeting on climate change,which was held in Dhaka on ...

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