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Hamas' all-out assault on Fatah
Bid to uproot rival faction from Gaza

Rajapaksa for careful study of Bhagwati panel report
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered a careful study of the observations and recommendations made in the Interim Report of the members of the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) headed by Justice ...

BAE move a whitewash, say critics
LONDON: BAE Systems, the British arms company at the centre of a multi-million pounds bribery scandal, has appointed an independent committee, headed by the former Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, to monitor its ethical standards in what is seen as a ...

Astronauts take first of four planned space walks
Extension of stay caused by need to repair thermal blanket

Landslip toll 100
DHAKA: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Tuesday allocated $20,000 to complement national efforts in responding to the landslip emergency in Bangladesh's southeastern Chittagong, which has caused the death of more than 100 ...

CIA recruits Sudanese to infiltrate jihadi groups
LONDON: The CIA, faced with the impossibility of infiltrating white Americans into radical groups in West Asia, is recruiting Arab-speaking Sudanese citizens, in spite of sanctions against the country over the killings in Darfur, it emerged on ...

China warns U.S. on tariffs
BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned of reprisals if the U.S. Congress adopts a bill on China's foreign exchange rate which raises U.S. tariffs on imports from China. ``China has always held the view that China-U.S. trade relations must reflect ...

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DNA kit to fight animal trade

India & World
His search ends but kindles hopes of others
`My brother died valiantly ... Pakistani soldiers buried him with the respect due to such a soldier"

India-born fashion designer faces more charges
BEVERLY HILLS: Celebrity fashion designer, Anand Jon Alexander, was charged with 13 new counts stemming from an investigation in which a string of women and girls have accused him of sexually assaulting them. Alexander, 33, who was born in ...

Case incomplete: Quattrocchi lawyer
BUENOS AIRES: The detention of Bofors case accused Ottavio Quattrocchi in Argentina was illegal from the outset, Alejandro Freeland, the Italian businessman's lawyer, said here on Tuesday. Also, the Indian case was incomplete, he said. "The ...

``Conduct terrorism cases by juries''
TORONTO: Trials in high-profile terrorism cases should be conducted by a panel of judges and have a better chance of winning public approval if verdicts are delivered by juries, a former judge, who sparked a storm by acquitting two men in the ...

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