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`Musharraf playing with destiny of Pakistanis'
ISLAMABAD, JUNE 25. There appears to be no meeting point between the present Opposition in Pakistan and the President, Pervez Musharraf, and the latter is playing with the destiny of the country's 140 million people, claims the former Pakistan ...
`19 to 20 countries' likely to join peacekeeping operations: Blair
LONDON, JUNE 25. Speculation over the possibility of India sending troops to Iraq heightened today after the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, told the Commons that in the next few weeks "19 to 20" countries were expected to join peacekeeping ...
`Economic package not automatic'
WASHINGTON, JUNE 25. The Bush administration is making it known that the $3-billion assistance to Pakistan over a five-year period — in rough annual installments of $600 million — is not guaranteed money that is going to flow in ...
WEST ASIA
Hamas, Islamic Jihad agree to truce
JERUSALEM, JUNE 25.A Palestinian source said on Wednesday that top leaders of the militant Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups have agreed to halt attacks against Israelis for three months. The claim could not be confirmed with Palestinian or ...
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  • China SARS case sparks WHO concern
  • Security overhaul at U.S. nuclear weapon labs


    Globescan
    Explosives meant for Al-Qaeda?
    Athens: The head of Greece's intelligence services said on Wednesday he could not exclude the possibility that the explosives seized from a Sudan-bound ship were intended for the extremist Al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. ``The cargo is very ...
    Peruvian Cabinet resigns
    LIMA: The entire Cabinet of the Peruvian President, Alejandro Toledo, has submitted its formal resignations, the press secretary announced, amid rising social tensions that could threaten his presidency. The resignations, submitted by Mr. ...
    Joint mission to probe Mercury
    Tokyo: Japan is planning a joint mission with the European Space Agency that would be the first to land a probe on Mercury, a space official said on Wednesday. The mission entails three probes, two that would orbit and one that would land, to map ...
    Voting goes online
    WASHINGTON: Voting opened with a few hiccups in an online Democratic presidential ``primary'' held by MoveOn.org, a 1.4 million-member advocacy group that is considering endorsing a candidate in 2004. Voters in the virtual primary reported delays ...


    India & World
    New methodology to address boundary issue
    SHANGHAI, JUNE 25. New possibilities have opened up in the India-China relationship with the two countries agreeing to "accommodate" the other on Sikkim and Tibet. In the case of Tibet, the Indian position revolves round the play of words, ...
    A day off for Vajpayee
    SHANGHAI, JUNE 25. It is a day off for the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, who flew in a special Chinese Boeing 737 aircraft from Beijing to see the Longmen caves in Luoyang, northern China, in Henan province this morning. His official ...
    India takes delivery of second frigate
    MOSCOW, JUNE 25.The Indian Navy today took possession of the second of three Russian-built stealth frigates, a week after the first warship was turned over. Vice Admiral Arun Prakash of the Western Naval Command took delivery of the INS ...



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