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Defiant Sobhraj ‘wife’ pays him a visit (13 October 12:43) |
| By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu
Oct. 12: Defying the new wave of negative publicity following her claim that she had married yesteryears’ "Bikini killer" Charles Sobhraj in a trad... |
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Israeli Prez warns Iran against surprise attack (13 October 12:42) |
| Jerusalem, Oct. 12: Israeli President Shimon Peres on Sunday warned Iran against considering a surprise attack, at a ceremony commemorating the 35th anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war.... |
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Somali pirates capture tanker, attack UN ship (13 October 12:41) |
| Nairobi, Oct. 12: Pirates seized a tanker and attacked a UN food ship that escaped, officials have said, the latest in a series of incidents off Somalia which have sparked worldwide concern.... |
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Pakistan says insiders behind terror attacks (13 October 12:41) |
| Islamabad, Oct. 12: Rattled by a wave of suicide bombings, Pakistan government has said that such attacks were perpetrated by people from within the country and not by Indians or Americans, ... |
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Pak forces pledge support to govt (13 October 12:40) |
| By OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT
Islamabad
Oct. 12: Pakistan’s powerful armed forces and intelligence agencies have pledged to support the democratically elected government led by the Pakis... |
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Karzai offers Taliban a role in govt (13 October 12:40) |
| London, Oct. 12: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has offered Taliban leaders the possibility of positions in his government if they struck a peace deal to end the fighting, media reported on S... |
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Lanka fighting kills 30 Tigers, 2 soldiers (13 October 12:39) |
| Colombo, Oct. 12: Separate battles between government forces and Tamil separatists across Sri Lanka’s volatile northern region killed 30 rebels and two soldiers, the military said on Sunda... |
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Nothing to celebrate this Oct. 12 for Musharraf (13 October 12:39) |
| By OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT
Islamabad
Oct. 12: Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf celebrated every October 12 in the last eight years to see his power growing, but this time he w... |
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Zardari says violation will damage ties (13 October 12:38) |
| By Shafqat Ali
Islamabad
Oct. 12: Pakistan Pre-sident Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that violation of Indus Water Treaty by India will damage the bilateral ties the two countries have bu... |
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Killed Taliban leader was Pak officer (13 October 12:38) |
| London: British officials covered up evidence that a Taliban commander killed by special forces in Helmand in year 2007 was in fact a Pakistani military officer, according to highly placed A... |
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Brown: UK will lead way through crisis (13 October 12:38) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 12: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who last week unveiled a £500 billion radical aid package to bail out struggling financial institutions, ... |
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‘Uk Muslims not advanced for Sharia’ (13 October 12:34) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 12: Britain’s new minister for race relations Sadiq Khan, who is a Muslim, has said that the Muslim community in Britain is not "advanced&qu... |
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‘Gays can serve in UK Army’ (13 October 12:33) |
| London, Oct. 12: The head of the British Army has created military history by taking a bold step towards attracting homosexual recruits.
In a speech to members of the Army-spkonsored Fourth... |
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Christians, Muslims meet at Cambridge (13 October 12:32) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 12: The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will address Muslim and Christian religious sc... |
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Indian-origin writers join anti-terror bill stir (13 October 12:31) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 12: Leading British authors of Indian origin Hari Kunzru, Daljit Nagra, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Nikita Lalwani are among 42 renowned British writer... |
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French girls ‘gifted’ to attract men (13 October 12:31) |
| New York: French women have "an effortless gift for attracting men" that American ladies lack and need to learn, says author Jamie Cat Callan in her forthcoming advice book.
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Qaeda, Taliban men escape missile strike (10 October 11:49) |
| BY OUR PAKISTAN CORRESPONDENT
with agency inputs
ISLAMABAD
Oct. 10: A US missile strike in Miranshah just missed top Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders, officials said on Friday. "The miss... |
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Lanka jets attack LTTE base (10 October 11:49) |
| By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
Colombo
Oct. 10: Sri Lankan fighter jets pounded a Tamil Tiger suicide bombers’ camp deep in the embattled north on Friday, a day after a suicide attack blamed o... |
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Suicide bomber kills 40 in Pak tribal area (10 October 11:49) |
| By Shafqat Ali
with agency inputs
ISLAMABAD
Oct. 10: At least 40 people were killed and over 100 others injured when a suicide attacker blew himself during a jirga (tribal assembly) meeti... |
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Inquiry by Pak into alleged US strikes (10 October 11:47) |
| By MUNIR AHMED
Islamabad
Oct. 10: Pakistani intelligence agents on Friday were investigating the identities of up to eight foreigners believed to be killed in a suspected US missile strike... |
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‘Govt must summon Musharraf to House’ (10 October 11:46) |
| Islamabad, Oct. 10: Pakistani legislators are still looking for answers from the top intelligence brass on reasons for an upsurge in terrorist violence in the country and have suggested summ... |
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‘US, N. Korea compromise on nuke deal’ (10 October 11:46) |
| Seoul, Oct. 10: The US and North Korea have agreed on a compromise to get the communist nation to resume dismantling its nuclear program, a news report said on Friday. The deal also calls fo... |
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Jail officials: Sobhraj wedding a gimmick (10 October 11:44) |
| Kathmandu, Oct. 10: A day after Charles Sobhraj’s Nepali fiancée Nihita Biswas announced that she had tied the knot with the murder convict, Nepal’s central jail authorities rejected th... |
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2 govt officials die in Afghan suicide attack (10 October 11:44) |
| Khost, Afghanistan: A Taliban suicide bomber killed two government workers in southeastern Afghanistan on Friday in an attack aimed at a district intelligence chief, the government and the m... |
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No change in Kashmir policy, says Zardari (10 October 11:44) |
| By Our Pakistan Correspondent
Islamabad
Oct. 10: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said that government’s Kashmir policy will remain unchan-ged. "There is no ambiguity between... |
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Path to White House is via Missouri (10 October 11:40) |
| By Michael Mathes
St. Louis,Missouri
Oct. 10: With the 2008 presidential election boiling down to a handful of battleground states, the tightest race of all has emerged in Missouri, the mo... |
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Italian kept wife prisoner for 50 years (10 October 11:40) |
| London, Oct. 10 A woman in Italy was kept a prisoner in her house by her husband for 50 years, it has been revealed.
According to the police officials, the wife, now in her 70s, said she wa... |
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IAEA probes Russia role in Iran N-arms (10 October 11:40) |
| New York, Oct. 10: International nuclear inspectors are investigating whether a Russian scientist helped Iran conduct complex experiments related to detonating a nuclear weapon, a media repo... |
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4-yr-old kills self with mother’s gun (10 October 11:38) |
| San Juan (Puerto Rico), Oct. 10: A 4-year-old boy accidentally killed himself with his police-officer mother’s gun as she dropped her children off at school, the police said on Thursday.
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NRI is poster boy for UK obesity campaign (10 October 11:38) |
| London, Oct. 10: An Indian-origin person in Leicester whose excessive weight (210 kg) took him to India for a stomach-shrinking operation, has become the latest poster boy for a British camp... |
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Oz inmates surrender after day-long rioting (10 October 11:38) |
| Adelaide, Oct. 10: Prisoners rioting at an Australian prison surrendered on Friday, 24 hours after chasing away guards and climbing to the rooftop to denounce overcrowding and ill treatment ... |
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Muslim gangs force prisoners to ‘convert’ (10 October 11:36) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 10: Muslim gangs at high security Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire were putting pressure on non-Muslim prisoners to convert to Islam and forcing ... |
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London’s bus drivers strike over salary tiff (10 October 11:35) |
| By OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
London
Oct. 10: Thousands of bus drivers in London went on 24-hour strike on Friday over salary leading to disruption in bus services across the city.
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MoD loses data of 100,000 (10 October 11:35) |
| By SARJU KAUL
London
Oct. 10: In yet another embarrassing incident, personal data of more than half of armed forces personnel has gone missing, the defence ministry said on Friday.
A port... |
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Passenger waiting time to be cut (10 October 11:34) |
| London, Oct. 10: A joint initiative to reduce waiting times at Heathrow Airport to a maximum of fifteen minutes has been announced for the visiting UK and EU passengers as part of initiative... |
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UK docs charged with plotting mass murder (10 October 11:34) |
| BY H.S. RAO
London
Oct. 10: Two British doctors of Asian origin, accused of plotting the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow in 2007, were charged with wanting to commit "indisc... |
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Gloves come off in final phase (10 October 01:21) |
| By : Sarah Strickland
Washington, Oct. 9: So, the gloves are off and it’s open season in the final run-up to the US presidential election on November 4th. After swearing that they wouldnâ... |
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Russia denies reports of missile sales to Iran (10 October 01:20) |
| Moscow, Oct. 9: Russia on Thursday denied reports that it plans to sell S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a move that could complicate an attack on that country’s nuclear infrastructu... |
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McCain in trouble on ‘supposedly’ safe states (10 October 01:19) |
| By Stephen Collinson
Indianapolis
Oct. 9: Less than four weeks from election day, John McCain is in trouble on supposedly safe Republican turf in a string of states which President Bush wo... |
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Georgia pullout complete (10 October 01:15) |
| Moscow, Oct. 9: Russia had completed the withdrawal of its troops from the buffer zones inside Georgia, two days ahead of the scheduled October 10 deadline, set in the EU brokered peace deal... |
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Anti-US Shia MP killed in Iraq blast (10 October 01:15) |
| Baghdad, Oct. 9: A Shia radical MP was assassinated in a bomb attack on Thursday in Baghdad’s Shia stronghold of Sadr City, marking the first killing of a legislator in 18 months, his Sadr... |
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Arabs, Jews clash in Israel on Yom Kippur (10 October 01:14) |
| Jerusalem, Oct. 9: Cars and stores were damaged as Jews and Arabs clashed in the Israeli city of Acre after an Arab man was assaulted for driving during Yom Kippur, the Haaretz newspaper rep... |
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Suicide bomber strikes Pak ATS office (10 October 01:14) |
| By Shafqat ali with agency inputs
Islamabad
Oct. 9: Eight people were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on the office of the Anti-Terrorism Squad on outskirts of the Pakistani capital o... |
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N. Korea may fire more missiles (10 October 01:13) |
| Seoul, Oct. 9: North Korea has deployed more than 10 missiles on its west coast for what appears to be an imminent launch, a South Korean newspaper said on Thursday, two days after the North... |
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Sri Lanka minister escapes blast, 1 dies (10 October 01:13) |
| BY MEL GUNASEKERA
Colombo
Oct. 9: A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber attacked a convoy ferrying a Sri Lankan cabinet minister outside the capital Colombo on Thursday, killing at least ... |
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‘Taliban is planning to financially weaken Pak’ (10 October 01:12) |
| BY Our Pakistan Correspondent
Islamabad
Oct. 9: Pakistan military and intelligence officials told Parliament on Thursday that Taliban militants are planning to economically weaken Pakistan... |
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Bangladesh emergency rule may be relaxed (10 October 01:12) |
| Dhaka, Oct. 9: As former Premier Khaleda Zia’s party demanded withdrawal of emergency rule calling it an obstacle to the planned December polls, Bangla- desh’s military-backed caretaker ... |
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Nepal begins probe into plane crash (10 October 01:11) |
| Kathmandu: Nepal has launched an investigation of a plane crash at a small airport near Mount Everest that killed 18 people, including 16 tourists from Germany, Australia and Nepal.
The fou... |
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Hindu wins battle of nose stud in UK (10 October 01:10) |
| BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
LONDON
Oct. 9: A Hindu schoolgirl in Britain has won the battle against her school and has now been allowed to wear a nose stud to school.
Thirteen-year-old S... |
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Trial of 2 docs begins in UK (10 October 01:10) |
| BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
LONDON
Oct. 9: Trial of two NHS doctors — Iraqi Bilal Abdullah, 28, and 29-year-old Jordanian Mohammed Asha — started in London on Thursday. The two doctor... |
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