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Reforms package for Pakistan tribal areas
Includes lifting a ban on political activities

Typhoon death toll to cross 500
BEIJING: The death toll in Taiwan from the typhoon Morakot which devastated the island this week could cross 500, officials said on Friday as rescue workers battled to save hundreds still left buried under mudslips. Taiwan’s leader ...

Sri Lanka, China sign pacts worth $350 million
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday signed two key developmental projects worth $350 million with the Exim Bank of China. The Sri Lanka Board of Investment said here Secretary to the Treasury Sumith Abeysinghe signed the agreements relating ...

Pirates overpowered
MOGADISHU: Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control of two boats off the Somali coast. But this time, it wasn’t pirates who launched the attack — it was Egyptian fishermen who had been held hostage ...

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