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Muslim Conference wins 20 seats
ISLAMABAD: The Muslim Conference, which won half the seats in the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Assembly elections, is set to form the next Government in the region. The Assembly has 41 elected members. The Muslim Conference won 20 out of 40 seats ...

Israel launches raids on Lebanon
Hizbullah captures two Israeli soldiers, demands prisoner swap

Huge cut in Nepal palace expenditure
KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Ram Sharan Mahat on Wednesday proposed $1.9 billion budget for 2006-2007 fiscal year, a major feature of which is a massive cut in the royal palace expenditure. Mr. Mahat has slashed the palace budget by 70 per cent ...

PLOTE leader killed
COLOMBO: A day after Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse unveiled his vision for the resolution of the ethnic conflict, four persons including a soldier and two police personnel were killed in continuing violence. According to the military, ...

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Duct tape patches up jet backpack
Rolls of duct tape are among the first equipment packed on each of the 115 shuttle missions

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Fund to fight bird flu
MANILA: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has disbursed more than $11 millions to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organization to counter the immediate threat ...

E.U.'s one-China policy
BEIJING: Visiting President of the European Parliament Josep Borrell Fontelles reiterated the European Union (E.U.)'s adherence to the one-China policy here on Wednesday. Mr. Borrell, who is here on an official goodwill visit, met Chinese Foreign ...

Drive for women's rights
BEIJING: Two hundred students from over 20 universities and colleges in Beijing have become youth volunteers advocating the concept of ``a girl is as good as a boy,'' particularly in rural areas. At the initiation ceremony of the programme, Ma ...

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Mumbai Blasts: concern over peace process
Blasts front-page news in British papers

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