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Climate forecasts to warn spread of illness
Everything is connected in our earth system, says expert

Committed to Sri Lanka peace: Oslo
COLOMBO: Norway’s policy of a resolution of the ethnic conflict within a united Sri Lanka “remains firm and will not change,” said its Foreign Ministry in a suo motu statement issued in Oslo. Deputy Foreign Minister of ...

U.K. ratifies Lisbon Treaty
LONDON: Britain on Thursday ratified the controversial Lisbon Treaty, designed to streamline the functioning of the expanded European Union (E.U.), but its future remained uncertain because of the crisis caused by last week’s ...

U.S. Midwest reels under severe flooding
OAKVILLE (Iowa): Sandbagging operations continued at a frantic pace in Illinois and Missouri as residents and officials battled to contain the Mississippi River after flooding that has resulted so far in 24 deaths and thousands of evacuations ...

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Ruling coalition backs Abdullah
SINGAPORE: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Thursday won a pledge of support from the ruling coalition, following the threat by one of its members, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP), to move a no-trust motion against him ...

Case against Asif dropped
DUBAI: Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif is likely to be deported as the case against him for carrying a banned substance has been dropped. The Dubai Public Prosecutor, Mohammad Al Nuaimi, has said that Mr. Asif will be deported from the ...

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Milder sentence for fraudster

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China stresses on strategic partnership
Beijing: Amid reports of frequent incursions by Chinese forces into Sikkim, Beijing on Thursday described the festering boundary row with India as a “very sensitive issue.” However, it noted that the sides had agreed that ...

Majority of Indians against criminal penalty to check abortion: survey
Half of them are for government action to discourage it

India Chair at Shenzen varsity
Beijing: An India Chair has been established in Humanities and Social Sciences at Shenzen University (SZU) in southern China. A memorandum of understanding on the Chair, between the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and SZU, ...

Colombo warns Lanka IOC of takeover

Rice: historic transformation in India ties
Washington: Terming the “historic transformation” of the U.S. ties with the “rising democratic power,” India, one of its key strategic accomplishments, the Bush administration has said it will enable Washington to ...

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