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LTTE plan for air force worries India, Lanka NEW DELHI, June 4: Two aeroplanes that were spotted in the Tamil Tigers’ lair of the northern Wani jungles and at least one makeshift landing strip seen in the Jaffna region,...		Nato urged to send more troops to Afghanistan NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch has called on Nato to send more security forces to Afghanistan following a marked deterioration of the security situation throughout May. In the past month, Afghanistan...
China has no need for mly buildup: US SINGAPORE, June 4: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused China on Saturday of enhancing its ability to project power at a time when it faced no threat and said Beijing would...		Al Jazeera encourages militants: Rumsfeld SINGAPORE, June 4: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Saturday that Arab news channel Al Jazeera was encouraging militant groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq. Al Jazeera,...
Plan aims to restore UN’s pre-eminence: Annan unveils reform document UNITED NATIONS: When world leaders converge on UN headquarters for the institution’s 60th anniversary in September, Secretary-General Kofi Annan wants each one to endorse a reform document unveiled on Friday that...		Rally calls for change of govt in Azerbaijan BAKU, June 4: Some 10,000 anti-government protesters rallied in the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan calling for regime change in the former Soviet republic on Saturday. In the first opposition rally not...
Electricity to stranded Pakistanis camp cut off DHAKA, June 4: Thousands of Pakistanis Stranded in Bangladesh marched on Saturday to the prime minister’s office in Dhaka to demand the restoration of electricity in camps across the country. The...		Rafsanjani hires movie man for campaign TEHRAN: Iranian film director Kamal Tabrizi, best known for poking fun at the Islamic republic’s turbaned establishment, is now using his big-screen talents to help a man of the cloth, Akbar...
Iraqi govt seeks greater US role: Constitution-making WASHINGTON: To prevent the breakdown of Iraq’s troubled transition and a potential civil war, Iraq’s new government appealed to the Bush administration on Thursday to take a much more assertive role,...		Iraqi troops refuse to attend training: Resentment over US supervision RUTBA, June 4: An Iraqi national guard unit has been disbanded after it refused to attend a military training academy overseen by U.S. advisers, former members of the unit said on...
Clinton defends Deep Throat; Kissinger critical WASHINGTON: Former US President Bill Clinton has said that FBI official Mark Felt “did the right thing” by leaking information to The Washington Post that helped lead to President Nixon’s resignation...		Baath party meeting heralds evolution DAMASCUS: Syria’s ruling Baath Party conference next week to discuss reforms will not bring major change to political life as many Syrians hoped, analysts said on Friday. Autocratic Syria is under...