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PAKISTAN’S commissioner to Britain said November’s Mumbai terrorist attacks were not planned in Pakistan.

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THE US State Department will not renew Blackwater Worldwide’s contract to protect American diplomats in Iraq when it expires in May after the Iraqi government refused it

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THE United States yesterday described North Korea’s plan to scrap all military and political agreements with South Korea as unhelpful.

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IRAQ imposed a nationwide security lockdown as voting began today in key regional elections. Blanket measures not seen since the deadliest years of the insurgency were imp

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CHINA’S Ministry of Health has ordered doctors to stop prescribing a diabetes drug after a fake batch of the medicine was linked to two deaths.

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A BUS packed with Chinese tourists overturned on a highway near the Hoover Dam yesterday, killing seven passengers and injuring nine.

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THE United Nation’s special envoy to Burma was expected to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on a visit to the country that began today, in the latest effor

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SOMALIA’S parliament elected a moderate Islamist leader as the country’s new president early today, handing over the elusive task of stabilising a country wracked by v

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THE appeal of US President Barack Obama has been underlined by a new study from Edinburgh University researchers, which monitored the reaction of people watching his inaugurat

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FIVE newborns, all less than a week old, were killed and another was injured in northern India after a short circuit sparked a fire in the hospital maternity ward where they w

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