Saarc accord to curb terror, fight hunger
COLOMBO, Aug 3: South Asian leaders signed a legal cooperation pact on Sunday to combat terrorism and agreed to set up a food bank to fight hunger in the face of rising food prices in one of the world’s poorest regions....
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Flood havoc in Rajanpur; 7 killed, 100,000 displaced
MULTAN, Aug 3: Six people are reported to have died and two children are missing after hill torrents caused by widespread rain flooded Rajanpur area. Dozens of villages have been submerged and over 100,000 people have been displaced....
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145 killed in Indian temple stampede
CHANDIGARH, Aug 3: At least 145 people, mostly women and children, were crushed to death under the feet of thousands of pilgrims in a stampede at a temple in northern India on Sunday, police said....
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Afghanistan agrees to resume talks
KABUL, Aug 3: Afghanistan accepted Pakistan’s offer on Sunday to resume talks which the Kabul government had boycotted after accusing its neighbour of being behind a series of attacks....
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Swat militants burn down 5 girls schools
MINGORA, Aug 3: Five girls schools and a government office were set ablaze in Swat while security forces claimed on Sunday to have killed 15 militants during an operation in the Sijband area....
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Girls school in Quetta attacked
QUETTA, Aug 3: Suspected Taliban militants set on fire furniture, computers and records of a private girls’ school in a suburb of the city on Sunday morning....
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FBI concedes Aafia Siddiqui in US custody: lawyer
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan....
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US wants ‘focussed’ intelligence services
COLOMBO, Aug 3: The United States has said it will like to see ‘focussed and good’ intelligence services in Pakistan working on the agenda of reining in terrorism that has become a cause of concern for the country’s neighbours....
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Series of bomb attacks in Baghdad: 12 dead
BAGHDAD, Aug 3: A series of bomb attacks in Baghdad early on Sunday killed 12 people and wounded at least 34, witnesses and officials said....
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Coalition soldier, judge killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug 3: A US-led coalition soldier was killed in a bomb attack in Kabul on Sunday and a judge was gunned down in southern Afghanistan, authorities said....
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Iran N-row: Syria not mediating but may play a role in future
TEHRAN, Aug 3: Syria said on Sunday it was not mediating or bringing a message from the West to Iran over its disputed nuclear plans but could play a role to help defuse the row in future....
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Another Bajaur child tests positive for polio
PESHAWAR, Aug 3: A second child in Taliban militants’ stronghold of Bajaur Agency has tested positive for polio, raising to seven the number of cases found this year in the NWFP and Fata....
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TB drug interferes with Aids treatment: study
PARIS, Aug 3: A drug used to fight tuberculosis also hampers the effectiveness of an HIV treatment widely used in Africa, the world’s worst Aids-hit region, a study published on Sunday said....
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Two security personnel killed in Dir
TIMERGARA, Aug 3: Two sepoys of Dir Levies were killed when armed men attacked a checkpost at the Zulam bridge, about 10km north-east of here, on Sunday....
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FC soldier gunned down in Quetta
QUETTA, Aug 3: A Frontier Corps soldier was killed and three others were injured when armed men on motorcycles opened fire on them near the Askari park area of the city on Sunday....
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35 die as truck falls into river
NEW DELHI: At least 35 farm workers were killed and 15 injured when a truck plunged into a small river in India’s eastern Bihar state, the Press Trust of India reported on Sunday....
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4 killed in Kolkata blast
KOLKATA: Four people were killed on Sunday in a “crude bomb” blast in a slum in India’s eastern city of Kolkata, police said....
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Plutonium leak at IAEA laboratory
VIENNA, Aug 3: A small amount of plutonium leaked overnight in an ageing laboratory operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) near Vienna, Austria’s environment ministry said on Sunday....
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