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JI hand seen behind blast
SINGAPORE, JULY 14. A powerful bomb explosion at the Indonesian Parliament complex in Jakarta today claimed no lives, with the legislature being in recess, but sent shock-waves across South-East Asia. Elsewhere in the region, an `activist' of ...
U.S. officials defend Niger reference
WASHINGTON, JULY 14.Top aides to the United States President, George W. Bush, are brushing aside the notion that the intelligence on the Iraq-Africa uranium link was over-stated; that it was not false but should not have been used in the State of ...
S. Korea discounts nuclear processing by North
SINGAPORE, JULY 14.South Korea today discounted the possibility that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK or the North) might have completed "reprocessing'' its stockpile of about 8000 spent nuclear-fuel rods into weapons-grade ...
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  • U.K. move to fingerprint Sri Lankan visa applicants draws flak
  • 120 million hit by China floods
  • Council votes to send team to U.N.
  • Religious fervour motivated Bali attack, says accused
  • CPJ plea to Musharraf
  • Liberian Govt. accuses rebels of violating truce
  • Mixed reaction among Arabs
  • Bush to meet Annan
  • Kremlin rules out clemency for Maskhadov
  • Monitoring panel chief holds talks with LTTE leader
  • JUI(F) team coming
  • Countries can decide level of participation in Iraq: Fleischer


    Globescan
    18-year term for Chinese tycoon
    BEIJING: An orchid-selling tycoon once ranked by Forbes magazine as China's second-richest businessman, was convicted of fraud and bribery and sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison, an assistant to his attorney said. Yang Bin, who was ...
    Fox's party suffers poll debacle
    MEXICO CITY: The Mexican President, Vicente Fox's National Action Party (PAN) lost one-quarter of its seats in Mexico's lower House of Congress, a Federal electoral official said on Sunday, confirming frustration among voters with the President's ...
    Quake jolts eastern Taiwan
    Taipei: Buildings in the eastern city of Hualien in Taiwan were shaken when an earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale jolted the island, officials said on Monday. ``Buildings were swayed for half a minute,'' a police officer in Hualien ...
    Storm heads for Texas
    SOUTH PADRE ISLAND (Texas): A hurricane watch was posted along the south Texas coast as tropical storm Claudette crawled across the Gulf of Mexico. Campers packed up and left low-lying South Padre Island and the Coast Guard helped rescue swimmers ...


    India & World
    India's decision puts Pak. in a fix
    ISLAMABAD, JULY 14. India's decision not to send troops to Iraq has put the Pervez Musharraf-Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali Government in a dilemma. In the course of his recent high-profile tour of Europe and the United States, the Pakistan ...
    Kalyan Singh says he was deceived
    LONDON, JULY 14. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh, has alleged that he was "duped" by top BJP and RSS leaders into giving a potentially false affidavit before the Supreme Court pledging to protect the Babri Masjid even as ...
    We attach great importance to ties with Bangladesh: Sinha
    DHAKA, JULY 14.The External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, has arrived here tonight to lead his country in the sixth India-Bangladesh Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting, which is due tomorrow after a gap of six years. Mr. Sinha said the ...



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