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Teheran may have to sign protocol
MANAMA, JUNE 21. With Russia deciding to halt supplies of nuclear fuel, Iran may now have no option but to sign a new inspections protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency aimed at preventing it from making atomic weapons. Russia ...

'Saddam, sons fled to Syria'
WASHINGTON, JUNE 21. Saddam Hussein has survived the U.S.-led war on Iraq and his sons, Uday and Quasay, have fled to Syria, according to a captured top lieutenant of the toppled dictator. Abid Hamad Mahmoud al-Tikriti, who was arrested by the ...

Bush, Musharraf urged to address rights issues
WASHINGTON, JUNE 21.On the eve of the visit to Washington by the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf, and in the high profile meeting set in the Presidential retreat at Camp David, leaders of the United States and Pakistan are being urged to ...

Britain goes berserk over Harry Potter
LONDON, JUNE 21.Finally, the spell broke at the stroke of midnight last night as "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', J. K. Rowling's eagerly-awaited fifth book, went on sale in Britain in a nail-biting climax to weeks of suspense built ...

100 die in pipeline blast
LAGOS (NIGERIA), JUNE 21. More than 100 villagers scavenging gasoline from a vandalised pipeline were killed when the gushing fuel exploded in rural south-eastern Nigeria, Red Cross officials and witnesses said on Saturday. It was not ...

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Asian leaders for greater regional integration

Space junk renders missions dangerous

Three women arrested in Mecca plot?

'Global reconciliation key to peace, growth'

Globescan

Latvian President re-elected
RIGA (Latvia): Vaira Vike-Freiberga easily won a second term on Friday as President of Latvia, the former Soviet republic that she helped guide into NATO and the European Union. Latvia's 100-seat Saeima (Parliament), voted 88-6 to let the ...

China arrests activist lawyer
BEIJING: China has arrested a lawyer helping residents in a compensation case on charges of illegally obtaining state secrets, a human rights group reported. Zheng Enchong had been advising more than 2,000 Shanghai householders suing the ...

Spurious drug kills 21
RIO DE JANEIRO: Police and health authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 21 people, believed to have died after using a corrupted version of a drug commonly given during X-rays and other radiology exams. At issue is a Brazilian ...

NASA corrects probe trajectory
PASADENA (California): The National Aeronautical and Space Administration successfully trimmed the course of a Mars-bound rover, putting the spacecraft on track for an early January arrival at the Red Planet. The first of as many as six ...

India & World
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We will never seek hegemony: Wen Jiabao
BEIJING, JUNE 21. Maintaining that India is China's "important neighbour" and seeking a "fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution" to the Sino-Indian border dispute, the Chinese Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, has expounded a "new ...

India, China should learn from history: Vajpayee
BEIJING, JUNE 21. India and China should draw on lessons of the past to avoid tensions in future, the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, said in an interview broadcast today, a day before he arrives in China on a six-day visit. "We should ...

'Jamali may inaugurate bus service soon'
ISLAMABAD, JUNE 21. The Pakistan Prime Minister, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, is likely to inaugurate the bus service between India and Pakistan soon, according to the Pakistani Minister for Culture, Tourism, Sports, Minorities and Youth Affairs, ...