UN calls for speedy revival of dialogue: Israel told to vacate Golan Heights
 UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4: The General Assembly called on Monday for self-determination for the Palestinian people, Israel’s withdrawal from the Golan Heights and an end to the presence of a small...
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Bonn deal today if nothing goes wrong
LONDON, Dec 4: The United Nations has said that Afghan factions holding talks in Bonn are likely to reach an agreement on Wednesday if everything goes well....
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Arafat unhurt in missile attack: Fiercest air raids in 14 months
RAMALLAH, Dec 4: Israeli warplanes and helicopters launched their fiercest air attacks in 14 months of conflict on Tuesday, firing one missile near Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s West Bank office while...
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US bans group for ‘helping’ Hamas
WASHINGTON, Dec 4: Moving beyond Al Qaeda for the first time since the Sept 11 terror attacks, the US administration has shut down a fund-raising foundation that it accused of helping...
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CIA seeks help to track down Osama: Talks held with Musharraf
NEW YORK, Dec 4: George J. Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence Agency, met President Gen Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad on weekend and sought tactical assistance for an assault on a...
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Ethnic tension in DPs’ camps denied
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Chief Commissioner for Afghan Refugees, Syed Asif Shah said on Tuesday that the administration was facing shortage of funds for tackling the influx of refugees as the foreign...
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No knowledge of Al-Qaeda’s nuke plans: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Dec 4: United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he has no knowledge whether or not Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden have been able to acquire plans or materiel to...
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No support price for sugarcane this year
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: The government has decided not to offer this year any support price for sugarcane and instead fixed an unannounced “indicative” price of Rs 43 per 40 kg of...
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Pakistan condemns Israeli action
ISLAMABAD, Dec 4: Pakistan on Tuesday condemned the Israeli military strikes on Palestinian installations, targeting President Yasser Arafat’s residence, Palestinian Authority’s office and police buildings and called on the United States...
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US, India agree on close defence ties
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: The United States and India on Tuesday announced sweeping plans for defence cooperation, including joint training of special forces and air and maritime programmes....
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13 children, woman die of suffocation
MULTAN, Dec 4: Thirteen children and a woman died of suffocation after falling into an abandoned well in a village near Dunyapur, some 50 kilometres form here, on Tuesday evening....
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Two soldiers killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Dec 4: A suicide squad of the Lashkar-i-Taiba attacked an Indian army camp in occupied Kashmir on Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers....
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US, India share views on Afghan future
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Washington and New Delhi share common goals on the future of Afghanistan, where India has always played a strong role, the top US State Department official for...
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Osama’s deputy wounded in airstrikes
PESHAWAR, Dec 4: A close lieutenant of Osama bin Laden and deputy leader of Al-Qaeda has been wounded in US airstrikes near Jalalabad, an Afghan military commander said....
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Indian guards arrest woman ‘commander’
 SRINAGAR, Dec 4: Indian guards arrested a woman guerilla “commander” in occupied Kashmir on Monday, a senior official said....
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Alliance withdraws from Kandahar airport
QUETTA, Dec 4: Anti-taliban forces withdrew from Kandahar airport on Tuesday on the advice of the United States, whose warplanes were pounding Taliban positions within the complex....
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Babies dying of hunger, cold in Afghanistan
LONDON, Dec 4: A UK-based charity organization, Save the Children, has warned that babies and infants of Afghan families stranded in sub-zero temperatures in northern Afghanistan are dying because of a...
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Two killed in border firing
SIALKOT, Dec 4: Two farmers were killed as a result of Indian firing on a Charwa sector village in Sialkot working boundary early on Tuesday....
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