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Power struggle in Turkmenistan
Foreign states keenly watch gas-rich nation

Speaker sacked, arrested
Foreign states keenly watch gas-rich nation

Discovery returns after 13-day mission
Sunita Williams to stay in International Space Station for six months

Colombo accuses Tigers of seizing foreign vessel
LTTE says it rescued crew of drifting Jordanian ship

Chaos at Heathrow eases
LONDON: After three days of chaos, which saw thousands of holiday travellers stranded at Heathrow and other British airports ahead of Christmas, there was good news on Saturday as most of the flights which had been cancelled due to heavy fog were ...

Nominations withheld
DHAKA: The Sheikh Hasina-led grand coalition in Bangladesh has refrained from submitting any nominations for the general elections even as the last date for the process expires on Sunday. The coalition has declared that without deferring the ...

China tests security against terror attack
BEIJING: China launched here on Saturday morning its third state-level anti-terrorist exercise, involving both military and civil departments a response to a simulated terrorist biochemical attack. The exercise, dubbed Great Wall No. 3, began ...

Top Taliban leader killed in U.S. air strike
KABUL: A top Taliban military commander described as a close associate of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar was killed in an air strike this week close to the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday. A Taliban ...

That surrealist conundrum and controversy
Paris debates a peculiar question of the value of conceptual art

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Sudan accepts plan

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Our thoughts are with those still in jail, say released Indian prisoners
Prisoners who are still in jail angry, disappointed

Pakistan piqued at plot report
India should share information if it has concrete evidence

Sir Creek joint survey to begin on January 15
LAHORE: Pakistan and India on Saturday took an important step forward in talks over the disputed Sri Creek by agreeing to the modalities of a joint survey of the narrow strip of water between the countries in Rann of Kutch. A statement at the ...

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