Pakistan's Musharraf holds talks with Bhutto
SECRET MEETING:
A minister called the talks `successful' and analysts suspected the pair discussed power-sharing, with Bhutto insisting that the president quit the military
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf held secret talks with opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a government minister said. Media widely reported that the once-bitter rivals discussed a power-sharing deal.
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Ex-Pakistani minister fights extremism
A former Pakistani government minister who resigned after Islamists issued a fatwa against her for posing in an "obscene manner" with French paraglider pilots, vowed on Saturday to fight religious extremism.
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S Korea ships oil to North
South Korea shipped the last consignment of heavy fuel oil to North Korea yesterday under the first stage of an aid-for-disarmament nuclear pact, officials said.
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Malaysia issues warnings to bloggers about slander
The Malaysian prime minister has issued a fresh warning to bloggers, as a key ruling party member described cyberspace as having "the law of the jungle," a report said yesterday.
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ASEAN divided on human rights issues
STICKING POINT:
The bloc has not been able to agree on how to punish rights abuses or on establishing a human rights commission to probe the behavior of member states
Southeast Asian nations headed into a week of security and political talks yesterday looking to seal a landmark cooperation deal but sharply divided on how to deal with human rights abuses -- and each other.
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Floods, landslides kill 18 in Nepal
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains made tens of thousands of people homeless and killed at least 18 in southern and southwestern Nepal, an official said yesterday, taking the national death toll from the monsoon to 68.
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FEATURE: Japan readies launch of green railway service
BATTERY POWERED:
East Japan Railway will begin using a diesel-electric hybrid train tomorrow on a short route through a mountainous resort area in the north of Japan
Winding through rice paddies and lazily blowing its whistle along bubbly creeks, a two-car train in rural northern Japan is the latest entrant in the battle against global warming.
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Malaysian leader calls for amended laws for juveniles
LOOPHOLE:
An appeals court freed a boy found guilty of stabbing a girl to death because there are no laws to imprison a minor convicted of killing
Malaysia's leader wants laws for juveniles to be amended after a boy who stabbed a girl to death when he was 12 was released after serving four years in prison, reports said yesterday.
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Four underground priests detained by Chinese authorities
Four priests from China's underground Roman Catholic Church have been detained by police, a US-based monitoring group said yesterday.
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Lack of officers hurting Iraqi forces
ATTITUDE PROBLEM:
A US Army general said it was hard to find experienced men without sectarian bias to command the growing number of police and army recruits
The Iraqi army and police are growing so fast that their forces enter battle with far less than the usual number of qualified officers, a senior US general said.
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Bush-Brown summit at Camp David to focus on Iraq
US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown began their first official summit yesterday as they made a concerted effort to prevent the divisive issue of Iraq from damaging the bilateral alliance.
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Hamas to pay civil servants in Gaza Strip
GOING HOME:
Scores of Gazans stranded in Egypt since last month's Hamas-Fatah clashes were to be allowed by Israel to cross at the Gaza-Egypt border
The Hamas government in the Gaza Strip was to begin paying thousands of civil servants cut from the payroll of its rival Fatah, officials said on Saturday, further entrenching the divisions between the two Palestinian territories.
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Lebanese forces storm militant hideout, killing eight
Lebanese troops stormed an Islamic militant hideout in a Palestinian refugee camp, killing eight fighters, state-run media reported.
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Liberia ends six-year moratorium on diamond sales
Liberia has lifted a self-imposed moratorium on the mining, sale and export of diamonds that had been in place for six years, officials said.
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Lawmakers killed by mistake
MISTAKEN IDENTITY:
When rebels thought the Colombian army was closing in, the leader had lawmakers killed when in fact the intruders were another band of rebels
A confused clash between two bands of rebels led a commander to order the death of 11 hostage lawmakers last month, the head of Colombia's intelligence agency said.
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ANALYSIS: NASA needs culture shifts
At NASA, once again, the problem is its culture -- a habit of dismissing the concerns of know-ledgeable underlings.
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Peru `not fast enough' to help poor
BEG YOUR PARDON:
In a state of the nation address, President Garcia apologized to Peru's poor for not passing economic success from metal prices on to them
Peruvian President Alan Garcia apologized to poor Peruvians for failing to improve their lives during his first year in office, and vowed renewed efforts against poverty.
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Cheney undergoes minor surgery for heartbeat monitor
US Vice President Dick Cheney underwent a minor operation on Saturday to get a new device to monitor his heartbeat after a checkup found the battery on the old device was running low.
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US prepares Saudi Arabian arms deal amid Israeli concern
Israel adopted a cautious stance yesterday over a reported US$20 billion arms package to Saudi Arabia and other regional US allies intended to counter a perceived threat from Iran.
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Soldier disputes details of report on US friendly fire
As bullets flew above their heads, the young soldier at Pat Tillman's side started praying.
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