Suicide bombing leaves 14 dead: Explosive-laden car blows up near bus outside hotel
 KARACHI, May 8: Fourteen people, including 11 French nationals, were killed and 18 others, including 10 foreigners, were injured, some of them seriously, when a “suicide bomber”, riding in a red...
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Hamas attack kills 17 in Tel Aviv
 WASHINGTON, May 8: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cut short a trip to the United States and flew back home on Wednesday after a suicide bombing south of Tel Aviv killed...
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Almaty may be a meeting point
NEW DELHI, May 8: Amid allegations of support to terrorism in each other’s country, underscored by the exchange of words over the Karachi suicide attack on Wednesday, President Pervez Musharraf and...
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Foreign help sought, security tightened: Musharraf consults NSC, intelligence men
ISLAMABAD, May 8: President Gen Pervez Musharraf held an emergency meeting with the National Security Council and heads of intelligence services here on Wednesday, and decided to take a string of...
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UN blasts Israel for assault on Palestinian cities
UNITED NATIONS, May 8: The UN General Assembly on Tuesday voted to condemn Israel’s assault on Palestinian cities and its rejection of a UN fact-finding mission into its army’s actions in...
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New Zealand cancel tour
KARACHI, May 8: The second cricket Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, which was scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning, was called off and the Kiwis’ tour of Pakistan was cancelled...
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Relatives flood French naval centre
 CHERBOURG, May 8: Relatives and colleagues of the 11 French naval construction workers killed on Wednesday in a suicide car bombing, grieved for lost loved ones at a makeshift welcome centre...
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Chirac offers help in probe
PARIS, May 8: French President Jacques Chirac has termed Wednesday morning’s bombing of a bus in Karachi an “ignoble act.”...
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Workers being recalled
PARIS, May 8: French shipbuilders, Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN), said on Wednesday it was recalling expatriate workers from Pakistan after 11 French nationals were killed and 12 injured in a...
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Al Qaeda behind blast: French general
PARIS, May 8: French Chief of Staff Gen Jean-Pierre Kelche says that it’s the “official” French belief that Al Qaeda’s hand in the attack perpetrated this morning against a busload of...
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OIC flays linking Islam with terrorism
KUALA LUMPUR, May 8: The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Kuala Lumpur has condemned the perceived link between the Muslim world and international terrorism, a news report said on Wednesday....
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Pakistan rejects Advani’s charge
ISLAMABAD, May 8: The Foreign Office spokesman dismissed on Wednesday as ludicrous the allegation by Indian Home Minister L.K. Advani that elements in Pakistan were fanning the flames of communal unrest...
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Bodies being sent to France
KARACHI, May 8: Arrangements are being made for sending back to France the bodies of the French nationals killed in the car bomb blast in Karachi....
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14 dead in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD, May 8: At least 14 people were killed and 45 wounded on Wednesday and Tuesday night in communal violence in Gujarat state....
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Soldier guarding Army House killed
ISLAMABAD, May 8: An army soldier posted on guard duties at the Army House, Rawalpindi, was shot and killed here on Wednesday, sources told Dawn....
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National Alliance pledges to help introduce good governance
ISLAMABAD May 8: The pro-Musharraf National Alliance, in its first formal meeting here on Wednesday, vowed to help end culture of corruption and injustice, and form a good government through the...
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