DISSENTING VOICES: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's widower met yesterday with the heads of other opposition parties to discuss forming a new government
Pakistan's deposed chief justice rallied supporters from house arrest yesterday, saying the new government should immediately restore judges axed by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf during emergency rule. Soon after, police fired tear gas at nearly 100 protesting lawyers in Karachi.

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The US military and Japanese police said yesterday they were investigating new allegations of rape by a US serviceman in Okinawa amid uproar after a string of criminal cases.

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More than 60 survivors and victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak began a trek to New Delhi on Wednesday to press for a clean-up of the toxic waste still surrounding the plant, activists said.

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POLL NOT FLAWED: An observer mission said there were concerns about the vote count in Armenia's recent election but issued a mainly positive assessment
Thousands of angry opposition supporters marched through Yerevan on Wednesday to protest the outcome of Armenia's presidential vote, which officials said was won by Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian.

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NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo blamed Serb leaders there for attacks on border checkpoints, as Serbians prepared for yesterday's protest in Belgrade against Kosovo's independence.

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ROYAL REBUTTAL: Richard Dearlove rubbished claims that princes Philip and Charles were members of MI6, the UK's overseas intelligence organization
The former head of Britain's overseas intelligence service on Wednesday denied at a formal inquest that Princess Diana was killed on orders from senior royals because she was pregnant and about to marry a Muslim.

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New arrests on Wednesday of 100 senior members and potential election candidates from the banned Muslim Brotherhood have not dissuaded Egypt's largest opposition movement from running in the upcoming local elections, the group's leader said.

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Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said yesterday that two extraordinary rendition flights landed at the British Indian Ocean territory of Diego Garcia in 2002 to refuel.

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British officials censored a recently released draft dossier on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) for fear it would harm relations with Israel, the Guardian reported yesterday.

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MUST-WIN: Barack Obama has encroached on the senator's support among women and the white working class, nearly splitting the support of white women in Wisconsin
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was working to get her campaign on track after two more victories by rival Barack Obama made her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination appear increasingly unreachable.

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SAFE: More than 99.9 percent of Earth is not occupied by a person at a given time, so the odds of anyone being hurt by falling junk is very remote
Giant chunks of manmade space junk -- like the dead satellite that the US government is trying to shoot down -- regularly fall to Earth. Yet no one has ever been reported hurt by them.

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A singer and two members of his staff were found tortured and killed just south of the California border, apparently the latest victims in a string of slayings of musicians, state prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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VULNERABLE: The Iraqi Interior Ministry on Tuesday ordered police to begin rounding up mentally disabled people to prevent insurgents from using them in suicide attacks
The US military said on Wednesday that two women used as suicide bombers in attacks earlier this month had undergone psychiatric treatment but there is no indication they had Down syndrome as officials initially had claimed.

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A US soldier charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi has been convicted by a military jury of aggravated assault.

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