TRANSPORT: Supplies for foreign troops in Afghanistan arrive in Karachi and are loaded onto trucks for the trip either to the border town of Chaman or through the Khyber Pass
Security forces escorted container trucks and oil tankers through the Khyber Pass yesterday after Pakistan reopened the route, which is critical for transporting supplies to NATO and US troops in Afghanistan.

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Several hundred Tibetan exile leaders gathered yesterday in northern India for a landmark meeting to discuss the direction of the movement that has struggled for decades to win autonomy from China.

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China and Costa Rica were to launch free trade talks yesterday in a historic visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) at the start of a Latin America tour including Cuba and Peru.

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SHAKY CEASEFIRE: Both sides claimed they wanted to uphold the Egyptian-mediated truce, but retaliatory strikes have continued over the past couple of weeks
An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants as they were firing mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after another group of militants struck Israel in a separate rocket attack.

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‘YES WE CAN’: From Africa to Japan, entrepreneurs are profiting from the popularity of the US president-elect, hawking shirts, chopsticks and porn
From publishers in nearly every country in the world to Japanese comedians and African T-shirt sellers, the audacity of hope knows no bounds when it comes to cashing in on Barack Obama’s name.

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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband is expressing strong opposition to Jewish settlement in the West Bank, and officials are speaking of an economic offensive to try to force them to be taken down.

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FORGOT YOUR BIRTHDAY: Washington said it was hard to learn the ages of prisoners, but a rights group already came up with a similar number using Pentagon information
The US has revised its count of juveniles ever held at Guantanamo Bay to 12, up from the eight it reported in May to the UN, a Pentagon spokesman said on Sunday.

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