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US warns LTTE against ‘abandoning peace’ COLOMBO, Jan 10: The United States on Tuesday warned Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels that a return to war would cost them dearly. US ambassador to Sri Lanka, Jeffrey Lunstead, told...		Iraq war could cost $2 trillion: study WASHINGTON, Jan 10: The Iraq occupation will likely cost the United States between one and two trillion dollars, despite earlier assurances by the White House that these expenses would be manageable,...
Amnesty reveals fresh cases of abuse at Guantanamo LONDON, Jan 10: Amnesty International has released fresh claims of the alleged torture and ill-treatment of detainees on the fourth anniversary of their being taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....		Parliament dismisses Ukraine govt over gas deal KIEV, Jan 10: The Ukrainian parliament voted on Tuesday to sack the government following criticism of its deal with Russia on natural gas pricing....
Sharon had brain disease that caused stroke: paper JERUSALEM, Jan 10: Doctors who gave Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a medicine that may have helped cause his subsequent stroke, did not know he had a condition making him susceptible to brain haemorrhages, a newspaper said on Tuesday....		Only way out is to impeach Blair!: Iraq war fiasco LONDON: Wars are won when the people, government and army work together for a common cause in which they genuinely believe. Whereas the people may be initially uncertain about military intervention,...
British MPs move to get to the truth: Rendition flights LONDON: As they contemplate the future leadership of their respective parties, MPs returning to Westminster from their holidays insist there is another issue that they will not be distracted from....		Weather adds to woes of India’s homeless NEW DELHI: Standing barely five feet (1.5 metres), Bhim argues loudly with a much taller man in a tent packed with homeless men sleeping on tables, their thin bodies covered in thin, dirty blankets....
NY denies graffiti artists a canvas NEW YORK: Having waged a long and largely successful war against its prolific graffiti artists, New York is seeking to disarm the city’s holdout “spray-painting punks” once and for all....		Race to be shopping paradise intensifies SINGAPORE: Streets are being spruced up, malls constructed and luxury brands courted: the race to be Asia’s international shopping paradise is intensifying from Bangkok to Hong Kong, Singapore to Kuala Lumpur....
Britons fed on gimmicks for nine years LONDON: More than a decade ago, Tony Blair said we must be “tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime”. He was right. No serious attempt to improve the...		Magazine publishes offending cartoon OSLO, Jan 10: A Norwegian Christian magazine on Tuesday published a set of caricatures deemed blasphemous by Muslims following months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper’s decision to print the same cartoons....
Rajiv assassins’ daughter meets parents in jail CHENNAI, Jan 10: The teenage daughter of a couple sentenced to death for the 1991 assassination of former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi visited her parents in a southern Indian prison on Tuesday....		Kim Jong-il on way to Russia via China SEOUL/BEIJING, Jan 10: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passed through China on Tuesday on the way to Russia, a source with knowledge of the stopover said....
US ‘perplexed’ over Dutch hesitation THE HAGUE, Jan 10: The United States is concerned by the Dutch hesitation to send troops to southern Afghanistan as part of the new NATO deployment in the country, a senior US official saidon Tuesday...		Leading Israeli hospital in global spotlight JERUSALEM: Shlomo Mor-Yosef moves quickly and with determination through the crowd of journalists camped out on the paved driveway of Hadassah hospital. His gaze is fixed straight ahead...