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INTERNATIONAL - NEWS ANALYSIS
U.N. reform to figure during Prodi's visit
ROME: Romano Prodi (68), who begins a five-day state visit to India on Friday, took over as Italy's centre-left Prime Minister in April 2006 after beating his long-time rival Silvio Berlusconi with a wafer thin lead of 24,000 votes. The media ...

Gaza celebrates unity accord
No call for Israel recognition

Many troops killed in attack: TamilNet
COLOMBO: The TamilNet has claimed that several soldiers have been killed in a claymore attack on their bus along Palaly Road, near the Urelu army camp on Thursday night. "The Palaly military command has not released official details on the ...

Peace offer to pro-Taliban leader
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Government is attempting to building bridges with a pro-Taliban commander linked by intelligence officials to the recent suicide bombings, and who President Pervez Musharraf declared his Government wants to ...

Ouster may trigger political crisis in Sri Lanka
Situation can pave way for general polls sooner rather than later

Kidnap plot: not a police state, says Britain
LONDON: Five men of Pakistani origin have been charged in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier who had served in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were arrested after a series of high-profile pre-dawn raids in ...

Light bulb has its days numbered
U.S. lawmakers propose statutory switch to fluorescent

No intention to capture power: Gen. Moeen
DHAKA: Bangladesh's army chief Lt. Gen. Moeen U Ahmed has said the military has no intention of capturing power or run the Government, but is assisting the caretaker Government to put the country back on the right track. A report of a private ...

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Now, GPS in shoes

Kurdish troops die in U.S. fire

Globescan
"Cautious optimism"
BEIJING: A draft agreement circulated by China at the six-party talks here has met with "divergent opinions" according to chief U.S. envoy to the negotiations Christopher Hill. The one-page draft deals with an initial set of steps aimed at ...

Model Smith is dead
HOLLYWOOD: Anna Nicole Smith, former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marriage to an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died after collapsing at a Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said. Ms. Smith ...

India & World
Indian doctors lose legal battle
Association says judgment is "very disappointing;" likely to challenge it

"Kochhar has no links with Dawood"
Matter blown out of proportion, says his lawyer

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