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Rock stars stage biggest concert to highlight poverty: Over one million throng Live 8 venues LONDON, July 2: Live 8, the biggest and most ambitious series of rock concerts ever held, sent a musical and political message around the globe on Saturday, intended to pressure industrialized nations...		31 killed in Taliban-police clash KANDAHAR, July 2: Thirty-one people, most of them Taliban guerillas, have been killed in new battles in southern Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday. The latest casualties in Uruzgan province increased the death toll in the region to 47 within a week...
200,000 turn up at Scotland march EDINBURGH, July 2: A tide of some 200,000 people dressed in white streamed through Edinburgh on Saturday to demand that leaders of rich nations agree measures to attack global poverty at a summit near the Scottish capital next week....		Ecosoc an ideal forum: Akram UNITED NATIONS, July 2: The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) had demonstrated that it could build real coalitions for action on the economic and social front, and that was a very positive development, said Ambassador of Pakistan...
25 million affected by floods in Gujarat AHMEDABAD, July 2: At least 124 people have died and about 25 million have been affected by heavy rains and flooding in the western Indian state of Gujarat this week, a state official said on Saturday....		Jackson in Bahrain RIYADH, July 2: Pop star Michael Jackson started a vacation in Bahrain as a guest of the king’s son. Jackson’s brother Jermaine, who has close friends in Bahrain’s royal family,...
350 children rescued AHMEDABAD, July 2: Troops in motorboats rescued around 350 children from the first floor of their school hostel after it was surrounded by floodwaters in a village near Ahmedabad. Soldiers and police snatched the students from the first floor after the ground floor of the building was submerged...		10 years after massacre, Bosnians crave for justice SREBRENICA(Bosnia): Nearly 10 years after Serb troops massacred close to 7,000 Muslim prisoners around this mountain town, war crimes investigators have all but wound up their probe into the killings, but express doubts that all major suspects ...
Russia, China team up to assail US foreign policy MOSCOW: Teaming up in a thinly veiled attack on US efforts to dominate the world, Russia and China on Friday issued a declaration demanding respect for the right of all countries to develop free...		Kaliningrad celebrates 750 years of history KALININGRAD (Russia): The proud Baltic city of Kaliningrad marks its 750th anniversary this weekend in a celebration that also stresses its comparatively recent history as a Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania....
US Senate votes to revive controversial nuclear weapons programme WASHINGTON: The US Senate has moved to revive a controversial weapons research programme aimed at enabling the US military to conduct precision nuclear strikes against hardened underground facilities...		Hostage crisis still exerts pull on US WASHINGTON: The flap over whether Iran’s president-elect played a role in taking US diplomats hostage in Tehran 26 years ago highlights the emotional pull the episode still has on the US public and government....