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Afghanistan's president called on Pakistan to close extremist madrasah schools and arrest the people who run them. Hamid Karzai, who has strong US support, has engaged in some sniping with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on countering ter

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Telegraph

The fugitive Taliban commander Mullah Omar has emerged as the key player behind the movement's controversial peace deal with Pakistan. The Taliban's one-eyed spiritual leader, who has a $10 million price on his head for refusing to hand over

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Reuters

Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, under international pressure over wartorn Darfur, said his government would impose a travel ban on U.S. officials that would confine them to the capital Khartoum. Bashir, in his first news conference since

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AFP

Russia intends to send troops to Lebanon, but not as part of the UN peacekeeping force there and only if all parties in the region agree, President Vladimir Putin confirmed. Moscow is prepared to send "a smal deployment of engineers to Lebanon,

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CNN-IBN

Officials claim the Mumbai train blasts were funded by terrorist outfit al-Qaeda and that some of the accused in the 7/11 case had trained with the prime accused of the World Trade Centre attacks.

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AFP

British and Dutch customs officials have cracked a multi-billion pound value-added tax fraud network. First Curacao International Bank in the Caribbean was shut down after investigators discovered that every single person charged with so-called caro

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Christian Science Monitor

Others say losing the program would be another "unsettling sign" of erosion in US-Russia nuclear security cooperation. "If we eliminate this program we will be losing a major nonproliferation agreement," says Kenneth Luongo, ex

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AP

The Thai military has declared launch of a coup, Thai military TV Five reported Tuesday night. Over a dozen tanks blocked roads around Thailand's government headquarters in Bangkok, witnesses said.

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AFP

Mounted police charged bottle-hurling protesters outside Socialist party headquarters, another night of violence touched off by the prime minister's leaked admission that his government had repeatedly lied to the public about the economy.

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AP

China denounced accusations by top US officials that it was selling weapons to Iran and North Korea amid nuclear tensions with the 2 regimes. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang called the criticism "groundless and irresponsible," the offic

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AP

A young man in a black trench coat and a mohawk haircut opened fire at a Montreal college, slaying a woman and wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him. "The guy was shooting at people randomly. He didn't care. The

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Fortune

Earlier this year, as the rhetoric soared between Tehran and Washington over Iran's nuclear program, the country's two biggest carmakers, Iran Khodro and Saipa, commissioned a study of how to run their businesses in a war zone. That may have

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Daily Telegraph

Russian diplomats believe it is now "highly probable" that North Korea will officially join the nuclear club by carrying out its first underground test of an atomic device. Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, is said to have made clear hi

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AP

The beat-up video camera was delivered to Afghanistan in a box, and picked up by two clean-shaven Arabs posing as journalists. They met with Osama bin Laden before leaving on their mission to kill mujahedeen hero Ahmad Shah Massood.

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CBC

A majority of Canadians believe US foreign policy was one of the root causes that led to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and Quebecers are quicker to criticize the US adminstration for its international actions that other Canadians, a recent poll suggest

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Reuters

Chile's Supreme Court cleared the way for former dictator Augusto Pinochet to face charges of murder, torture and other rights abuses by his secret police. "He's been stripped of immunity,"

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Christian Science Monitor

Ms. Gorolova cannot have any more children. 16 years ago, she says, doctors at a hospital here sterilized her while she gave birth to her 2nd son by c-section. In the throes of labor they had her sign a form authorizing the sterilization, but did not

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The Australian

JAPAN should study the possibility of acquiring nuclear weapons, says former prime minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, because its US security blanket cannot be guaranteed to last forever.

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Toronto Star

Tony Blair will leave office next July 26, Britian's Sun newspaper reported today, as the increasingly unpopular prime minister faced growing pressure to quite from within his own Labour party. The report comes a day after a top political ally

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Moscow Times

Poland will ask the US to back efforts to reduce its dependence on Russian energy supplies in exchange for agreeing to allow a US anti-missile defense system on its terroritory, a Polish newspaper reported Monday. Rzeczpospolita cited diplomatic sou

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Reuters

German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released.

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