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AP - India has demanded that Islamabad hand over dozens of suspected terrorists believed to be living in Pakistan, including India's most-wanted man.
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AFP - Foreign travellers and business people say they will not be put off coming to India's most vibrant and cosmopolitan city by murderous militant attacks that brought Mumbai to a standstill last week.
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AFP - Mumbai tailor Nitan shudders at the memory of militants hunting down a rabbi, his wife and their small, low-profile Jewish community within shooting distance of his humble but colourful wooden store.
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India's anger at its politicians over the Mumbai terrorist attacks claimed the scalps of two more senior members of its ruling elite yesterday.Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, offered to quit over alleged warnings about terrorist activities that were not acted on. He was...(more)
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President-elect Barack Obama Monday formally announced a national security team that is led by his onetime chief Democratic rival and includes a top member of President Bush's Cabinet -- a bipartisan group that he said shares his pragmatism and his commitment to strengthen America's standing in...(more)
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City dwellers get on trains, go to work and gather publicly to show solidarity after the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170. 'I want to shop just to show I'm not afraid,' one says. With a bit of pluck, even if it was not always...(more)
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Thailand's prime minister, Somchai Wongsawat, is set to step down today with the rest of his government after a constitutional court banned him from office and found his party and two others guilty of electoral fraud.The verdict caused celebrations at Thailand's two main airports, which have...(more)
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Thailand's constitutional court dissolves the party of PM Somchai Wongsawat, amid an escalating political crisis.
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Gas prices have plummeted during the past several weeks, but commuters do not appear to be returning to their cars, according to transit officials in the region and elsewhere, who say ridership is still increasing. Transit officials attributed much of the ridership increase earlier this...(more)
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BAGHDAD -- The black-masked militias have vanished from most Baghdad streets, and the car bombings are down to one or two a day. So one recent afternoon, Hadeel Ahmed, a ponytailed college student in jeans, did something few Iraqi women have dared in recent years....(more)
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A sleepy village in Pakistan has found itself at the centre of the Mumbai terror plot, leaving locals bewildered.Faridkot, a settlement in the south of the Punjab province, has been overrun by Pakistani intelligence agents and police for the past three days after it was reported...(more)
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If you're looking for green Christmas or Hanukkah gifts that keep on giving, you could buy a well to provide clean water for ...
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