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Pak envoy abducted by Taliban recovered safe (17 May 07:17) |
| Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants more than three months ago has been recovered safe, state television rep |
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China's 1-child policy add to pain of loss (17 May 07:17) |
| After their daughter was born, Bi Kaiwei and his wife, Meilin, decided to adhere to China's one-child policy and its slogan, "Have fewer kids, li |
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McCain's foreign policy naive: Obama (17 May 07:17) |
| Barack Obama laid into John McCain on Friday for advancing a tough-guy foreign policy that he called "naive and irresponsible." Also |
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Kuwait votes for new parliament (17 May 03:16) |
| Kuwaitis vote on Saturday for a new parliament that must work with the royal family-controlled Cabinet, whose recent resignation triggered a period of |
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Latin-Europe summit begins under feud (17 May 03:16) |
| European and Latin American leaders sought to unite against poverty, global warming and high food prices on Friday, but their summit was clouded by an |
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Aftershock rattles China quake zone (17 May 03:16) |
| A powerful aftershock knocked out roads and communications in some of the most quake-ravaged parts of central China on Friday, as emergency crews resc |
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Myanmar says 77,738 dead in cyclone (17 May 07:22) |
| Myanmar said on Friday that more than 1,33,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the toll from the worst disaster i |
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Palestinians term Bush's speech as 'slap' (17 May 03:17) |
| Palestinians have slammed US President George W Bush's speech at the Israeli parliament, terming it as a "slap in the face" and another proo |
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US student charged with hate crime for setting fire to 'patka' (16 May 11:18) |
| US authorities have pressed hate crime charges against an American teenager accused of setting fire to the patka of a Sikh student. |
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Palestinian cause fuels holy war, says Osama (16 May 09:24) |
| Osama bin Laden says in a new message that Al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine.Frid |
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Muslim, Jewish clerics meet in Qatar (16 May 09:24) |
| More than a dozen Jewish rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's |
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Suicide attack in Colombo: 9 dead, 90 hurt (16 May 07:18) |
| At least nine people were killed and 90 wounded on Friday in a Tamil Tiger suicide attack against a police bus in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, officia |
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California top court legalises gay marriages (16 May 05:17) |
| California's Supreme Court declared that gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the ga |
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Myanmar junta warns against hoarding aid (16 May 05:17) |
| Myanmar's junta warned on Thursday that it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors.But relief gro |
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Nigerian pipeline blast in Lagos burns 100 (16 May 05:17) |
| Silhouetted against the night sky the shell of the burnt-out excavator continued to belch out flames and acrid black smoke over the site where around |
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China death toll rises to 50,000: Official (16 May 03:16) |
| Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began sh |
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Bin Laden to release Israel message: Website (16 May 03:16) |
| Osama bin Laden, who has threatened to extend Al-Qaida's terror to Israel, will release a new Internet message dealing with Israelis and Palestinians, |
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Sharif's nomination papers for by-polls accepted (16 May 07:14) |
| Pakistani election authorities on Thursday accepted nomination papers filed by former premier Nawaz Sharif for next month's by-polls for two parliamen |
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Four Indians kidnapped in Sudan (16 May 05:26) |
| Four Indian workers of an oil company have been kidnapped in Sudan suspectedly by some local gang. The four - P K Abhilash, Mohd Aseeb Shaikh, Biplab |
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China, Russia back India's UN 'aspirations' (16 May 05:26) |
| China along with Russia on Thursday expressed support for India's "aspirations" to play a greater role in the United Nations, signalling its |
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SMS not bad grammar but linguistic renaissance: Study (16 May 01:19) |
| Parents need not worry - a new study contends that SMSes and online chats actually help teens hone their linguistic abilities, rather than degrade the |
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New earth jolts occur in China (15 May 11:18) |
| New strong earth jolts have occurred in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan on Thursday. |
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UK to get first Asian woman Lord Mayor (15 May 11:18) |
| Britain will get its first Asian woman Lord Mayor on Thursday when Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood will take over the charge. |
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China quake: Nearly 900 tourists stranded (15 May 11:18) |
| Nearly 900 foreign tourists are stranded after a major earthquake in southwestern China but they are believed to be safe. |
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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Afghanistan (15 May 11:18) |
| An official says that a suicide bomber wearing a burqa killed 15 people and wounded 22 others in a crowded market in Afghanistan. |
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China plans more helicopters for hard-hit areas (15 May 07:23) |
| China ordered more helicopters into the air, planned aid drops in remote areas of Sichuan province and appealed for rescue equipment as it struggled t |
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Myanmar allows 5 more relief flights (15 May 05:23) |
| The US military has received a "verbal okay" for five more C-130 relief flights into Myanmar but is pressing for permission to use helicopte |
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Bush defends aid strategy for South Asia (15 May 05:23) |
| The Bush administration defended its methods for spending aid money in Pakistan and Afghanistan as a senior lawmaker criticized what he called an inef |
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John Edwards endorses Barack Obama (15 May 05:23) |
| Barack Obama secured the long sought-after endorsement of former rival John Edwards, a gesture aimed at solidifying support for the party's likely pre |
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Moon sends UN humanitarian chief to Myanmar (15 May 03:17) |
| UN chief Ban Ki-moon said he was sending the organisation's top humanitarian official to cyclone-hit Myanmar to try to persuade the country's military |
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US Army detains 500 minors in Iraq: report (15 May 03:17) |
| Around 500 minors are currently detained by the US army in Iraq, as well as nearly a dozen juveniles in Afghanistan, a US civil liberties group reveal |
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Asif Zardari weighs all options (15 May 07:17) |
| Asif Ali Zardari is probably getting ready to take the toughest political decision of his life. |
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South Indians lead in migration to the West (15 May 07:17) |
| South Indians now lead the rest of the country in migrating to Canada and Australia and with a new set of rules coming out in these countries migratio |
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Indian-origin expert gets London's top transport job (15 May 07:17) |
| In an effort to win-over the Asian community, the newly elected London Mayor, Boris Johnson on Wednesday, appointed an upcoming NRI Tory star Kulveer |
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Pro-Mugabe lobby urges state of emergency (15 May 03:21) |
| A pro-government rights outfit has urged Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to consider declaring a state of emergency to stem a tide of post-election p |
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Bush hails Mideast nations as optimistic (15 May 01:17) |
| President Bush said on Wednesday that 60 years of democracy in Israel is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle East. |
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Poland to probe Gorbachev on Cold War (15 May 01:17) |
| A Polish court on Wednesday ordered prosecutors investigating the country's last communist president, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, to question top Col |
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Hillary upbeat after W Virginia victory (15 May 01:17) |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's more determined than ever to press ahead with her campaign.The New York senator welcomed her big West Virgin |
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China quake death toll nears 15,000 (14 May 09:18) |
| The official death toll from a powerful earthquake in central China has risen to almost 15,000.The Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday th |
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New storm heads for devastated Myanmar (14 May 09:18) |
| Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta, where so little aid has reached that the UN warned on Wednesday of a "se |
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Clinton upbeat after W Virginia victory (14 May 09:18) |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton says she's more determined than ever to press ahead with her campaign.The New York senator welcomed her big West Virgin |
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Bush on Mideast trip to mark Israel's anniversary (14 May 09:18) |
| President Bush has opened a celebratory visit to Israel where he'll make a new push for peace in the long-troubled Middle East.The president a |
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Afghanistan seeks $50 billion development aid (14 May 09:18) |
| Afghanistan will ask international donors next month for $50 billion to fund a five-year development plan, a presidential aide said, despite growing c |
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Hillary wins West Virginia primary (14 May 05:20) |
| Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has beaten Barack Obama in West Virginia's primary by a large margin. |
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US condemns terror attack in Jaipur (14 May 09:16) |
| The United States has strongly condemned the bomb attacks in Jaipur that left at least 60 people dead and over 200 injured saying they were "inte |
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We are at the side of India, says France (14 May 07:18) |
| French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has expressed revulsion at bomb blasts in Jaipur that claimed at least 60 lives, and offered to step up help |
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Pakistan condemns Jaipur terror bombings (14 May 07:18) |
| Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the terror bombings in the Indian city of Jaipur, in which around 60 people were killed and over a 100 injured, and expr |
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Death toll in China quake nears 12000: Report (13 May 11:18) |
| Bodies covered with sheets lined streets as rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China's worst earthquake in three decad |
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US Sikhs irked over turban burning (13 May 11:18) |
| The Sikh community in New Jersey has demanded a full fledged inquiry into an incident in which a high school student allegedly set afire the "pat |
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Pressure on China to alter Olympic torch relay (13 May 11:18) |
| Beijing organisers are facing pressure to alter or suspend the Olympic torch relay, which is scheduled next month to enter parts of the country ravage |
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