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Afghanistan to sign landmine treaty
KABUL, JULY 28.Afghanistan, the world's most mined country, today said it would sign an international treaty banning their use as soon as possible and called on the international community for help in clearing millions of anti-personnel devices. ...

'Organisers to blame for air crash'
MOSCOW, JULY 28.The death toll in Saturday's fighter plane crash in Ukraine rose on Sunday to 83 persons, including 19 children, making it the world's worst air show disaster. The Interfax news agency quoted Ukraine's Emergencies Ministry ...

U. S. invites Iraqi groups for talks
LONDON, JULY 28.The U.S. has invited six Iraqi Opposition groups to Washington next month for talks on removing the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, spokesmen for three of the factions said on Saturday. The State Department confirmed a meeting ...

High return of Afghan refugees surprises many
ISLAMABAD, JULY 28. What started as a trickle with the collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan towards the end of last year has now become a flood. Much to the surprise of experts in the region, more than 1.2 million Afghan refugees have ...

Infiltration has gone down, Powell says in Pak.
ISLAMABAD, JULY 28.The United States Secretary of State, Colin Powell, ended his two-day whirlwind tour of South Asia on an ambiguous note with a call to both India and Pakistan to progress towards ``a productive and sustainable bilateral ...