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INTERNATIONAL
Tehran-Riyadh talks to cover West Asia
DUBAI: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in Riyadh for talks that could help ease sectarian tensions in Iraq and encourage a political settlement of the crisis in Lebanon. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz received Mr. ...

Seoul aid put off
SINGAPORE: The inter-Korean Ministerial talks ended in Pyongyang on Friday, with the two sides saying nothing concrete about South Korea's aid to North Korea. Diplomats said the move reflected Seoul's "disarmament game plans". It is to link ...

Peerage row: bar on BBC
LONDON: The Blair Government has been accused of trying to gag the media over the cash-for-honours scandal after the BBC was on Friday banned from broadcasting a news item relating to it on grounds that it was likely to "impede'' the police ...

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`U.S. forces can pursue militants crossing into Pakistan'

The lost Bourbon, in India

Globescan
Sarkozy faces questions
PARIS: French Presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is struggling to reassert his image as a humble man of the people after newspaper allegations that he benefited from a substantial discount on a luxury apartment in Paris's wealthiest suburb. ...

Army corps sued
NEW YORK: New Orleans has filed a claim for $77 billion in damages against the U.S. army corps of engineers for building levees incapable of withstanding Hurricane Katrina, leading to the devastation of large parts of the city. It is thought that ...

Invasion by mistake
ZURICH: What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighbouring Liechtenstein. According to Swiss daily Blick , the 170 ...

India & World
New lawyer to assist CBI
BUENOS AIRES: The Argentinian Government named a new lawyer on Saturday to plead the Central Bureau of Investigation's case for extradition of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors payoffs case. Lilian Delgado was ...

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Liz Hurley, Arun Nayar wed

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