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to withdraw all soldiers from IraqTroop pullout likely to be completed in about two months
Russia calls for release of diplomats
MOSCOW: Russia has called for the immediate release of four Russian diplomats abducted in Iraq as a group linked to Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the kidnapping. Claim abduction Russian Foreign Minister ...
U.S. soldiers found dead in Iraq
The bodies show signs of torture
Colombo, LTTE trade charges
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan security forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Tuesday traded charges over a firefight near a Buddhist shrine in the north-central Polonnaruwa district. The incident occurred on Monday when a gunman ...
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seed bank to safeguard food suppliesLONDON: An ambitious project to safeguard future food supplies began on Monday with the launch of a ``Noah's ark'' for the world's most important plants. The new Svalbard International Seed Vault will serve as a repository for crucial seeds in ...
Poverty rates persist despite growth: U.N. report
UNITED NATIONS: An increase in development aid since 2002 has raised health and education standards and hastened gender equality among the world's poorest nations, but overall poverty conditions are not improving, a new United Nations report said ...
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Not the destination, says PoK leader
56 cross the Line of Control from Rawalakot to Poonch by bus on Tuesday
Mumbai rudest city in world: survey
It is at the bottom, worse than Bucharest