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US man held for entering Suu Kyi's home
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A US national has been arrested after swimming over to the lakeside compound where Myanmar opposition leader Aung
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Swine flu hits Asia in global march
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Swine flu continued its global march as South Korea confirmed its first case and Hong Kong and China scrambled to track
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Lanka blocking access to civilians in war-zone
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Sri Lanka is refusing humanitarian access to its war zone where some 50,000 people are believed trapped, a top UN
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Sri Lanka rebels call ceasefire
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Tamil Tiger rebels fighting government forces in north-east Sri Lanka have declared a unilateral ceasefire.
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Millions of Indians due to vote
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BBC NEWS: Millions of Indians are due to vote in the first round of the country's 15th general elections on Thursday.
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India assures help to Bangladesh in restructuring BDR
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India on Wednesday assured Bangladesh that any “recalcitrant elements” of the BDR will not be allowed to enter the country and offered all possible help in restructuring of the paramilitary force there.
“We have expressed our full support to the Bangladesh government and BDR in restructuring the force. We will ensure that BDR recalcitrant elements do not enter into India at any cost and if any one caught we would hand them over to Bangladesh,” BSF Director General M L Kumawat said during a joint press conference with his BDR counterpart.
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Taliban militants abduct 12 Pakistan police
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Taliban militants abducted 12 police officers in a pre-dawn attack Sunday in a tribal region where a suicide attack on a mosque this week killed around 50 worshippers, officials said.
The insurgents surrounded a tribal police check post 35 kilometres southeast of Peshawar city in the lawless Khyber region before driving the captured officers away, local government official Rahat Gul said.
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Can Pakistan Be Untangled from the Taliban?
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Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency is directly assisting militant groups fighting against U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has barely raised an eyebrow. Veteran Pakistan watchers here have known - or suspected - as much for several years. "It confirms what a lot of us have been saying for a long time," says Lisa Curtis, South Asia expert at the Heritage Foundation.
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Violence mars Pakistani anti-government protest
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Pakistan opposition leader Nawaz Sharif defied house arrest Sunday to lead an anti-government convoy toward the barricaded capital and a showdown with its pro-Western president.Earlier, Sharif's supporters fought running battles with riot police in the eastern city of Lahore, a taste of what could come if authorities make good on pledges not to allow him and other anti-government protesters to enter Islamabad.
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Pakistan protest crackdown widens
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BBC NEWS: Authorities in Pakistan's north-west have banned political gatherings and a protest convoy has been halted in Sindh as a crackdown on activists spreads.
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AR Rahman wins Oscars for music
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Indian composer AR Rahman has won two Oscars for his work in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire.
Rahman won an Oscar for the best score, and another for his song Jai Ho from the film, a rags-to-riches tale set in the slums of Mumbai.He praised Slumdog Millionaire's theme of hope and optimism.
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Indian per capita income doubles to Rs 38,084 in 7 years
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India's economy is expected to expand by 7.1 percent in 2008-09, against spectacular growth of nine percent in 2007-08; in the wake of the global financial crisis that hammered Indian manufacturing, financial services and farm sector output. However, the country's per capita income registered a spectacular growth of Rs. 38, 084, i.e. 14.4 per cent during 2008-9 - more than double over the last seven years
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Al-Qaida warns India against attack on Pak
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LONDON: A top al-Qaida commander, who was reported killed in a US drone strike last year, has appeared in a video warning India of more Mumbai-style terror attacks if it tried to attack Pakistan.
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