Israeli tanks and artillery battle Hamas fighters: Invading troops surround Gaza’s main city in big ground offensive
GAZA CITY, Jan 4: Tens of thousands of Israeli troops backed by tanks and artillery battled Hamas fighters in Gaza fields and roads on Sunday as the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli military aggression passed 500....
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Suicide bomber kills seven in D.I. Khan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Jan 4: At least seven people, three of them policemen and two journalists, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Government Polytechnic College near an imambargah on Multan Road....
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India seeks US support for extradition demand
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: The United States is once again being pushed into playing a major role in an India-Pakistan dispute — this time by New Delhi which wants Washington to persuade Islamabad to hand over Mumbai terror suspects....
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Gas blast in coalmine near Mach kills eight
QUETTA, Jan 4: At least eight miners were killed in an explosion in a coalmine in Dashtari near Mach town, some 70km east of here, on Sunday....
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Woman suicide bomber kills 38 at Iraqi shrine
BAGHDAD, Jan 4: A woman hiding among Iranian pilgrims with a bomb strapped under her black robe killed more than three dozen people and wounded at least 72 others on Sunday outside a Baghdad mosque....
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Russia, France and EU launch efforts for truce
MOSCOW, Jan 4: Russia, France and the European Union have launched separate initiatives for ceasefire in Gaza....
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Call for immediate ceasefire as Israeli offensive triggers worldwide alarm
PARIS, Jan 4: Israel’s tank-and-troop assault on the Gaza Strip provoked cries of alarm worldwide on Sunday, but Israel won US backing and moves for an immediate ceasefire foundered at the United Nations....
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BISP to be launched for Fata women
ISLAMABAD, Jan 4: The government has decided to take the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) to people in tribal areas, despite reported threats from the local Taliban that women receiving monetary help would be killed....
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Khalid Sheikh goes on trial today: Tunisia synagogue bombing
PARIS, Jan 4: Two alleged Al Qaeda kingpins and a third man go on trial in Paris on Monday, accused of plotting the 2002 suicide bombing of a synagogue in Tunisia that left 21 dead....
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Seven die in Kashmir gunbattle
SRINAGAR, Jan 4: A gunbattle between Indian forces and suspected militants raged for a fourth day on Sunday in a densely forested region of occupied Kashmir, police said....
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Kidnapped journalists released in Somalia
NAIROBI, Jan 4: Two journalists, from Britain and Spain, were released on Sunday after almost six weeks in captivity in Somalia’s breakaway Puntland state, police and the Spanish government said....
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Nasa rovers mark five years on Mars
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: The US space agency’s Mars rovers ‘Spirit and Opportunity’ this month mark their fifth anniversary on the Red Planet, where they have endured harsh conditions and revealed a deluge of information....
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Maliki seeks Iranian help to rebuild Iraq
TEHRAN, Jan 4: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday that he hoped Iran would help rebuild his conflict-torn country by boosting economic ties....
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Lankan troops hunt for rebel leader
KILINOCHCHI (Sri Lanka), Jan 4: Sri Lanka’s army said on Sunday it was moving in on the jungle stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels in a final assault aimed at ending the longest-running ethnic war in Asia....
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Four killed in Indonesia’s series of quakes
JAKARTA, Jan 4: A series of powerful earthquakes shook remote eastern Indonesia on Sunday, toppling or badly damaging more than 100 buildings and leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured....
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Obama’s commerce secretary Richardson bows out
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: Bill Richardson, president-elect Barack Obama’s pick to be commerce secretary, said on Sunday he was withdrawing his name owing to an investigation into a company doing business with his state of New Mexico....
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Mumbai attack: India blames ‘state actors’
NEW DELHI, Jan 4: Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has rejected Pakistan’s suggestion that the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage were non-state actors and indicated that the terrorists may have been trained by one or more state security specialists....
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Tension easing, says Qureshi: Kashmir policy unchanged
MULTAN, Jan 4: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Sunday it would not be correct to say that tensions between India and Pakistan had been fully defused, but the situation was improving....
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