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19 abducted in Batticaloa, claims TamilNet
COLOMBO: TamilNet has claimed that armed men, clad in military fatigues, abducted 19 persons — 16 boys and 3 girls — from a private bus en route to Colombo from Kattankudy at Korakallimadu in Kiran in Batticaloa district around 9 ...

INTERNATIONAL
Six-party talks make some progress
Parties in earnest dialogue: China

BEATLE TARGET
How the FBI tried to nail John Lennon
A man who sang "Imagine all the people/Living life in peace" was a subversive, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation could not nail John Lennon. An American historian has won his 25-year campaign to expose the FBI's pursuit of the ex-Beatle ...

Turkmenistan President dead
MOSCOW: Turkmenistan's authoritarian President-for-life Saparmurat Niyazov has died, raising concerns about stability in the gas-rich but impoverished Central Asian country of 5 million. Mr. Niyazov (66), died in the early hours of Thursday of ...

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Chaos at Heathrow
LONDON: Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Heathrow airport on Thursday after British Airways cancelled all domestic and a number of short-haul European flights because of thick fog. Long-haul international flights were also facing long ...

Holocaust denier freed
VIENNA: The discredited British historian and Holocaust denier David Irving was expected to fly back to Britain on Thursday after Austria's Supreme Court unexpectedly agreed to release him from prison early. The court in Vienna ruled that Irving, ...

India & World
Manmohan's speech positive, says Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Amritsar speech and said the time for a treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation with India would come when the two countries had resolved "all outstanding issues" ...

LTTE expresses `gratitude'
Karunanidhi's condolence statement

Not influencing India's Iran policy: Boucher
WASHINGTON: Seeking to allay concerns in India over the reference to Iran in its new law on nuclear cooperation, Washington has said New Delhi was not involved in the matter that was strictly between the American Congress and the administration. ...




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