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Doctors campaign for funds WASHINGTON, Oct 11: Pakistani-American doctor Hussain Malik was making his early morning rounds at a Pennsylvanian hospital when news of last weekend’s devastating earthquake in his native land reached him, triggering a campaign to ease the pain of victims....		46 killed in attacks in Iraq BAGHDAD, Oct 11: At least 46 people were killed in attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, including a suicide car bombing in a crowded market, just four days before a vote on the new constitution that guerillas have vowed to disrupt....
Warrants issued for 23 officials’ arrest: Iraq’s $1 billion defence scam BAGHDAD, Oct 11: Iraq has issued arrest warrants for the former defence minister and two dozen other officials in connection with the alleged misappropriation of more than $1 billion from government coffers, investigators said on Tuesday....		Inquiry yet to yield proof against Syria: Hariri’s assassination BEIRUT, Oct 11: The head of the United Nations probe into former prime minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination had good news and bad news for Lebanese officials he met recently....
Rice gets assurance on Kyrgyzstan base BISHKEK, Oct 11: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice received an assurance here on Tuesday that Kyrgyzstan would let the United States maintain an airbase until the situation in nearby Afghanistan was stable....		BD softens stand on highway DHAKA, Oct 11: Bangladesh softened its position on the route of the proposed Asian Highway as the government realized non-ratification of the inter-governmental agreement for joining the highway would affect its ‘look east’ policy....
Go home by dusk, Iranian women told TEHRAN, Oct 11: Female civil servants at Iran’s culture ministry and female journalists at the state newspaper and news agency must be out of the office by dusk to be with their families, a directive said on Tuesday....		Indian PM declares ‘national calamity’ URI, Oct 11: India’s prime minister on Tuesday pledged to rebuild the lives of thousands of people in occupied Kashmir whose world was destroyed by South Asia’s earthquake, declaring it ‘a national calamity’....
Trader held in Kadirgamar murder case COLOMBO, Oct 11: The military has arrested a Tamil businessman in connection with the August 12 assassination of Lakshman Kadirgamar. Charles Gnanakone Selvakumar, a supposed confidante of the LTTE who had...		Jewish body makes quake appeal NEW YORK, Oct 11: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) on Tuesday asked the Jewish community to donate generously to aid survivors of the earthquake....
Security for Chandrika tightened COLOMBO, Oct 11: Security for the president and prime minister carrying out party campaigning for the November 17 presidential polls have been tightened after the discovery of a possible assassination plan....		Aceh jolted JAKARTA, Oct 11: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rocked the Indonesian province of Aceh on Tuesday, causing initial panic but no damage or casualties....
Liberians vote MONROVIA, Oct 11: Liberians lined up before dawn on Tuesday to elect a post-war leader from among lawyers and former warlords competing with football icon George Weah and his closest rival, who aims to be Africa’s first female president.—AFP...		Malaysia-Thailand refugee row deepens KUALA LUMPUR: A diplomatic row between Thailand and Malaysia over the fate of 131 Thai Muslims who fled to Malaysia in August, to escape ethnic violence and repression, has worsened as it begins to gain international attention....
Robert Fisk explains Iraq, history and journalism: Address to Sydney audience SYDNEY: Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for the British Independent, addressed an audience of over 500 at the University of Sydney on October 5. The well-known journalist was visiting Australia to...		Golden curtain divides old and new Russia MOSCOW: It is evening and the beautiful, tanned 40-year-old woman picks up her mobile phone as she glides home in her Ferrari. “I’ll be back in five minutes and I want...
Man grieves for baby he will never know KANDI (Occupied Kashmir): Twenty-year-old Farooq Ahmed has never seen his baby. He never will. He doesn’t even know if he had a son or a daughter....		How Iraq’s referendum will work On Saturday, millions of Iraqis will vote in a referendum on a new constitution that its backers hope will unite the increasingly divided country. Following are some basic questions and answers...