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    Settlement freeze must be ‘comprehensive’: Abbas spokesman

    Any new ban on settlement construction must be “comprehensive,” a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas said on Sunday, indicating it must include east Jerusalem. “The Palestinians are committed to the decision of the Arab monitoring committee for a comprehensive freeze for the resumption of negotiations,” Nabil Abu Rudeina told a news agency. Last month, […]

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    New French govt expected under PM Fillon

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed Francois Fillon as Prime Minister on Sunday and asked him to create a new government. The unpopular French president had been expected for months to make changes to his government ahead of 2012 presidential elections but doing so on the weekend was highly unusual. Fillon resigned Saturday night, a required […]

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    BNP strike paralyses B’desh; 34 detained after clashes

    A day-long opposition strike paralysed Bangladesh on Sunday as angry BNP workers, upset over the eviction of their leader Khaleda Zia from her residence, clashed with police at several places and forced the closing down of markets, schools and transport facilities. Hundreds of policemen in riot gear patrolled Dhaka’s streets during the strike observed from […]

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    Suu Kyi calls for direct talks with junta leader

    Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, freed from seven years of house arrest, told thousands of wildly cheering supporters on Sunday that she would continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-controlled nation. She called for face-to-face talks with the junta’s leader. She spoke to about 5,000 people […]

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    Karzai says US should reduce operations’ intensity

    Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said the United States must reduce the visibility and intensity of its military operations in Afghanistan. Karzai also said in an interview on Saturday with The Washington Post the US should end the increased Special Operations forces night raids that aggravate Afghans and could strengthen the Taliban insurgency. He said he […]

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    Pak used terror as hedge against India: Clinton

    Pakistan has in the past used terror outfits as a hedge to prevent India and an ‘unfriendly’ Afghan regime in the neighbourhood from undermining its interests, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, cautioning that things might not have completely changed. In an honest assessment of the situation in the Af-Pak region, Clinton acknowledged […]

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    Taliban attack airport in eastern Afghanistan: authorities

    Taliban militants attacked Jalalabad airport and a military base for foreign forces in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday but the strike was thwarted, officials said. The government in Nangarhar province and NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that a wave of fighters attacked a security post at the airport before dawn and at least six […]

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    Deaths from Cholera in Haiti Increase to 796

    The Haitian Ministry of Health reported that the cholera death toll rose to 796, including 13 in Port au Prince, where the disease spreads rapidly despite strong sanitary measures. According to the website of the Ministry on Friday, the country registered another 72 deaths in the last hours and the number of infected are over […]

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    Zia evicted from her cantonment residence

    Former Bangladesh premier Khaleda Zia was Saturday forced to vacate her posh cantonment residence of 30 years, after security forces laid a siege around the house to execute a High Court order, while angry BNP supporters clashed with police in Dhaka opposing the action. “She has left her 6 Mainul Road residence at the cantonment […]

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    Myanmar’s Suu Kyi likely to be released from house arrest today

    Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is on the verge of being freed from house arrest, officials in the military-ruled country said, as anticipation grew among her legions of supporters.    Security was stepped up in Yangon, where Suu Kyi remained confined to her crumbling lakeside mansion, with police vehicles patrolling the city.  The Nobel […]

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