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Jack Straw removed from Foreign Office
LONDON: Jack Straw was on Friday removed from the Foreign Office and replaced by Margaret Beckett who becomes Britain's first-ever woman Foreign Secretary after a dramatic Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Tony Blair even as results ...

Iran for sober discussion
DUBAI:

Decision on gas pipeline within 90 days: Iran
ISLAMABAD: Teheran has said it will take a "final decision" on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline within the next 90 days. The Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), official news agency, quoted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...

Defence Minister says she was targeted in scandal
France's Clearstream financial allegations scam takes new twist

Measles outbreak link to religious tour denied
Mata's mutt terms Australian claims baseless

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Europe's most expensive public toilet opens in Berlin

Khartoum, rebels to sign Darfur peace pact

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LTTE attack warded off
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan navy and air force on Friday warded off an attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) off the island's north-western coast, the army said. "One LTTE boat laden with arms and ammunition" and a rebel-truck mounted ...

Nepal panel to probe atrocities
KATHMANDU: Nepal's Government on Friday formed a powerful judicial commission headed by a former Supreme Court justice to probe the atrocities perpetrated on peaceful protesters during the people's movement. The former Justice Krishna Jung ...

Economy, security in poll focus
The potential rise of India has figured as a campaign theme in Singapore

Vows to oust Qarase
SUVA (FIJI): Mahendra Chaudhry, who barely lasted a year as Fiji's first ethnic Indian Prime Minister before he was taken hostage by armed indigenous Fijian nationalists in the May 2000 coup, said his Fiji Labour Party had a duty to oust the ...

India & World
Steps to protect Indian workers, says Vayalar Ravi
DUBAI: The visiting Minister for Overseas Affairs, Vayalar Ravi has said that efforts were being made to protect workers seeking employment in Gulf countries from unscrupulous agents. "We have to tighten rules of recruitment for Indian ...

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