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Norway denies report on missing passports
COLOMBO: Norway on Tuesday denied that a "large number of Norwegian passports were stolen" and said the allegations by Sri Lankan envoy to Washington were "drawing links between unrelated matters and have no basis in reality". In an interview ...

INTERNATIONAL
Fighting between Lebanese army, militants intensifies
Government pledges to "finish off" Islamists

A jolt to PML (Q)
ISLAMABAD: It is the season for the discontented in the beleagured ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid) to assert themselves and get a hearing. Already jittery over a mounting political crisis triggered by President Pervez Musharraf's move ...

Russia says "no" to extradition
MOSCOW: Russia will not turn over businessman Andrei Lugovoi sought by Britain in the death of former security agent Alexander Litvinenko, but may prosecute him under Russian criminal law, a spokesperson for the Russian Prosecutor-General's ...

U.K. for extradition of former KGB man for Litvinenko murder
LONDON: Britain wants Russia to extradite a former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi in connection with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, also a former Russian spy, who died in a London hospital last November after being mysteriously infected with ...

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U.K. police test airborne spy

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Memorial damaged
BOISE (U.S.): Vandals toppled and damaged a bronze statue of Holocaust victim Anne Frank in Idaho's capital, two months after the memorial was plastered with neo-Nazi stickers. Damage to the 226-kg statue of the girl, whose diary of hiding from ...

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Abel Prize presented
OSLO: Srinivasa Varadhan, a mathematician of Indian origin in the United States, was on Tuesday presented the prestigious Abel Prize for his work on probabilities. The Abel Prize, for outstanding work in the field of mathematics, carries the ...

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