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UN gives go-ahead for Khmer Rouge trials UNITED NATIONS, April 30: The United Nations announced on Friday that legal requirements had been met for trials of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders, nearly three decades after Cambodia’s genocide began. An...		Nepalese king lifts state of emergency KATHMANDU, April 30: Nepal’s King Gyanendra lifted on Saturday a state of emergency he clamped on the Himalayan kingdom when he grabbed power three months ago after coming under heavy world...
Controversy over Iran’s new airport TEHRAN, April 30: The Iranian capital’s new showpiece international airport finally reopened on Saturday a year after being shut down by the armed forces, but was immediately hit by fresh controversy...		Taipei’s threat to KMT leader XIAN (China), April 30: Taiwan’s main opposition party boss continued his China “peace journey” in his birthplace Xian on Saturday as the island’s government threatened to investigate him for possibly overstepping...
Fortune tale turns out to be too good to be true BOSTON, April 30: In the end, the tale of buried treasure just didn’t fit the bills. Two New England men regaled television audiences this week with their story of finding 1,900...		Vietnam remembers war 30 years on HO CHI MINH CITY, April 30: Vietnam celebrated the 30th anniversary of the end of “The American War” on Saturday, baking a four-ton cake for Liberation Day babies and staging a...
White House guests asked to reveal race WASHINGTON, April 30: The US Secret Service has asked for the race of guests attending a media reception with President George Bush before the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on...		Grave with 1,500 bodies found in Iraq SAMAWA, April 30: Investigators have claimed uncovering a mass grave in southern Iraq containing as many as 1,500 bodies, most of them thought to be Kurds removed from their homes in...
Turkey okays US request to use air base ANKARA, April 30: Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has approved a government decree allowing the United States to use a key military base in the south of the country as a...		16 scholars selected for studies on Islam NEW YORK, April 30: The Carnegie Corporation of New York has selected 16 scholars for studying Islam and its relationship with the modern world. Prof Ayesha Jalal of Tufts University, Asma...
Fast growth in Asia’s old generation worries experts BANGKOK: An enduring image that has helped to define Asian societies — of ageing parents being cared for by their grown-up children — is coming under scrutiny in the wake of...		Sudan becomes US ally in ‘war on terror’ WASHINGTON: Sudan’s Islamist regime, once shunned by Washington for providing a haven for Osama bin Laden as well as for human rights abuses during decades of civil war, has become an...
Tourism in Egypt still booming despite militant attacks CAIRO: Despite the initial apprehension of local hotels and travel agencies following the April 7 attack on tourists in Cairo’s historic al-Azhar district, the effect on Egypt’s vital tourism industry has...		US, Italy clash over shooting WASHINGTON/ROME: Relations between the Bush administration and one of its closest European allies came under renewed strain last night when US and Italian investigators said they had failed to agree on...
Israelis resist the Arabs in their midst AL QUDS: More than four years of violence between Israelis and Palestinians may have abated at least temporarily but its effect is still being felt on relations between Jews and Arabs...		AIDS wears a woman’s face in Africa UNITED NATIONS: Stephen Lewis, the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, invariably returns to New York with half a dozen harrowing stories of death and devastation in a continent ravaged...