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Christian Science Monitor

The race for influence in South Asia is taking a nuclear turn. In recent days, reports have emerged that both the US and China are prepared to alter the nuclear establishment in order to curry favor with South Asia's two powers: India and Pakista

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Reuters

Lebanon braced for a bitter power struggle after the assassination of an anti-Syrian Christian cabinet minister which his allies blamed on Syria. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was gunned down as he drove in a Christian suburb of Beirut, becoming t

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Reuters

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned private media he would shut them down if they promote a bid to topple him he says is planned after his expected Dec. 3 re-election. Chavez, who has gradually increased his control over most Venezuelan instit

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AP

[TNSTAAFL] Pakistan's lower house of Parliament passed amendments to the country's rape laws, ditching the death penalty for extramarital sex and revising a clause on making victims produce four witnesses to prove rape cases.

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LA Times

Speaking softly and keeping a vigilant eye, he said his covert army of resistors finally sees hope amid the gloom: Several political parties have recently formed in Vietnam without seeking government approval. The Communists are slowly losing their i

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Times on Line

Frustrated with not being able to meet its annual target of revenue collection, city authorities have employed the incomparably colourful services of eunuchs to embarrass habitual defaulters into coughing up.

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By Sami Moubayed (Asia Times)

The war and the trial of Saddam Hussein was supposed to scare the current leaders of the Arab world into abandoning anti-Americanism, in a manner similar to what happened with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. It was supposed to bring down Arab regimes.

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LA Times

Noel Choong was working late the night he got the distress call: Just off the Malaysian coast in the darkness, a Japanese tugboat and barge were being attacked by a dozen pirates armed with AK-47s and rocket launchers.

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International News

The Pakistani authorities had little choice but to bomb the Bajaur school site after they received 'overwhelming proof' from US intelligence sources that it was being used as a training centre for insurgents, the Washington Post reported on S

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Daily Mail

Undercover American agents are staging secret 'sting' operations in Britian against criminal and terrorist suspects they want to extradite to the US In a recent operation, agents from the Dept of Homeland Security set up a suspect by posing

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AFP

(seems like an oxymoron with talks of tarrifs against China) Senior officials from the major economies in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation met here Sunday to complete the agenda for its annual meeting this week, with the focus firmly

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Christian Science Monitor

When former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw insisted last month that female Muslim constituents show their faces when meeting with him, he set off a fiery debate about whether the face-covering niqab should be allowed in Britain's multicultu

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Moscow News

Kyrgyz police Tuesday afternoon fired tear gas at thousands gathered to demand constitutional reform in the former Soviet republic's captial, the DPA news agency reported on Tuesday quoting Kyrgyz news agencies. Casualties were reported

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AP

Zalmay Khalilzad, the plainspoken dealmaker and Republican insider who has won praise and criticism for attempts to broker Sunni political participation in Iraq's fragile government, is likely to quit his post as US ambassador in Baghdad

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Times On Line

Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology. The Spectre of a nuclear race in the Middle East was raised yesterday when 6 Arab states announced that they were embarking on programmes to master

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