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70 Tigers killed in major battle: Navy
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan forces on Monday claimed to have destroyed 11 "Sea Tiger craft" and killed 70 cadres of the LTTE and injured several Tamil Tigers in a major battle in the early hours of Monday. The Navy said in a statement the battle ...

Not a banana republic, says Musharraf
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has termed rumours of a coup in Pakistan as "nonsense." Speaking in the U.S., where he is on an official visit, he said, "Pakistan is not a banana republic and rumours about overthrowing of ...

CIA paid Pakistan for Al-Qaeda men
LONDON: The CIA secretly paid "millions of dollars'' to the Pakistan Government as a reward to Islamabad for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects to America, The Times reported on Monday claiming that the "revelation'' came ...

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Confucius' statue sparks debate
JINAN (CHINA): A portrait of an ancient Chinese philosopher or a symbol of modern commercialism? The new ``standardised'' image of Confucius has sparked controversy among China's scholars, many of whom doubt it will stand the test of ...

Abe allies in top slots
SINGAPORE: Shinzo Abe, the newly-elected leader of Japan's main ruling party, on Monday appointed his allies to the top positions in its hierarchy. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) later endorsed the appointments at an extraordinary meeting ...

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Woman official killed
KABUL: Safia Annajan, Director of Women's Affairs of Kandahar province in Afghanistan, was killed by gunmen on Monday, a U.N. spokesman told a press conference here. Ms. Annajan was shot and killed at around 7:20 a.m. local time outside the ...

No survivor in crash
KATHMANDU: Wreckage of the chopper missing since Saturday was located on Monday and all 24 on board had been found dead. The chopper was found two km south west of Ghunsa, Taplejung district, some 600 km east of Kathmandu. State Minister for ...

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Indiscretion or publicity coup?
ISLAMABAD: There is an interesting line in President Pervez Musharraf's book In the Line of Fire , well before it begins. The book was available in bookstores in Islamabad a few hours before the New York launch. Store owners reported ...

Indian student killed in St. Petersburg
MOSCOW: An Indian student was stabbed to death in St. Petersburg in the same place where another Indian was badly injured in a similar attack earlier this year. Nitish Kumar Singh (27), belonging to Bihar and a final-year student with the St. ...




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