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| Maoists, parties in secret pact |
| In a major breakthrough, a broad-based understanding has been reached between the Nepalese political parties agitating against King Gyanendra’s royal coup and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in secret talks held yesterday.
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| UN: Iran has cookbook to make nukes |
| The UN nuclear watchdog said in a confidential report today it had found an Iranian document which one European diplomat described as a “cookbook” for a nuclear wea
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| Annan impressed, depressed by quake |
| UN secretary-general Kofi Annan visited earthquake-hit Kashmir today to highlight the misery of people living in the disaster zone and Pakistan’s dire need for over $5 b
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| Wine violence |
| Festivities marking the arrival of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau turned violent in the southeastern French city of Grenoble today, when more than 30 people were injured
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| UN chief for abuse probe |
| UN human rights chief Louise Arbour today called for an international probe into Iraqi jails after accusations of serious abuse of detainees at a secret interior ministry det
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| 54 die in Iraq mosque suicide strike |
| Two suicide bombers killed at least 54 people when they blew themselves up inside two crowded Shia mosques in the northeastern Iraqi town of Khanaqin today, police said.
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| A Maoist guerrilla at an armed exercise in Bhojpur, Nepal. (AFP) |
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