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| France fears hostage fiasco |
| French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin called a ministerial crisis meeting on two French journalists held hostage in Iraq today as efforts to secure their release threatened to turn into a fiasco.
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| Pakistan to quit IMF poverty plan |
| Pakistan today said it plans to quit IMF?s poverty reduction and growth facility programme by the end of this year as its economic situation has improved.
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| Refugees defy diktat |
| More than 650,000 Afghan refugees living in Pakistan have registered to vote in their country?s first direct presidential polls next weekend, despite warnings not to do so fr
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| Thai flu death |
| Asia?s bird flu epidemic, which experts fear could spawn a human pandemic, has claimed its 31st victim, a nine-year-old Thai girl who had contact with infected chickens at ho
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Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and her parents at the premiere of Taxi in New York. (AFP) |
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