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November 28th, 2008 - 10:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Mogasishu, Nov 28 (Xinhua) The Somali transitional government said Friday its forces would not engage in hostilities with the insurgents to retake rebel-held territories.The government said its decision was in compliance with ...
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November 25th, 2008 - 9:04 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Nov 25 (RIA Novosti) Georgia Tuesday said it has launched a criminal investigation into the Sunday's alleged firing by Russian troops at the motorcade of the Polish and Georgian presidents. ...
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November 19th, 2008 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
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Colombo, Nov 19 (IANS) Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka has said the government may ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) even before the people ask for it.According to reports ...
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November 11th, 2008 - 8:45 am ICT by IANS
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Gaza City, Nov 11 (DPA) Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak late Monday ordered resumed shipments of "limited" amounts of industrial diesel fuel into the Gaza Strip, after six days in which the ...
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October 26th, 2008 - 10:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Chennai, Oct 26 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Sunday assured External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee that his party's MPs will not insist on quitting parliament following the talks between New ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 2:54 pm ICT by IANS
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Kohima, Oct 16 (IANS) The setting of the deadlocked Naga peace talks has moved out of India yet again with frontline separatist leader Thuingaleng Muivah leaving the country after nearly a year ...
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October 16th, 2008 - 10:50 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Sri lanka said Thursday that the demand from political parties in Tamil Nadu for a ceasefire in the island nation appeared to be orchestrated by the Tamil ...
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October 6th, 2008 - 7:12 pm ICT by ANI
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Guwahati, Oct 6 (ANI): The death toll in Assams Udalguri and Darrang districts, dogged by clashes between Bodos and illegal Bangladeshi migrants, rose to 40 on Saturday with the violence spreading ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 9:43 am ICT by IANS
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Book: "My Belly is White"; Author: Austin Fernando; Publisher: Vijitha Yapa Publications, ColomboThis is a revealing book on Sri Lanka's now dead peace process, written by one who was in the thick ...
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October 2nd, 2008 - 10:29 pm ICT by IANS
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Colombo, Oct 2 (IANS) Supersonic ground attack fighters of the Sri Lankan Air Force Thursday bombed the headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north as government troops advanced further towards ...
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October 1st, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi, Oct 1 (DPA) European Union (EU) observers started their mission Wednesday to monitor the Russo-Georgian ceasefire agreement one and half months after conflict flared between the two countries over Georgia's breakaway ...
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September 11th, 2008 - 4:36 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Sep 11 (RIA Novosti) The United States has demanded Russia abide by the terms of South Ossetia ceasefire plan and pull its troops out of Georgia. "These guys (Russia leaders) are ...
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September 9th, 2008 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi/Moscow, Sep 9 (DPA) Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili early Tuesday called the latest Russian agreement to withdraw from Georgian territory "a step forward".Saakashvili held a joint press conference after midnight with French ...
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September 7th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Sep 7 (Xinhua) Russia will not apologize for its actions in the recent conflict with Georgia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said."We do not need to apologize to anyone, we are ...
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September 4th, 2008 - 1:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Sep 4 (DPA) The US will provide $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Georgia following the Russian invasion of the former Soviet republic, while the International Monetary Fund (IMF)offered $750 million ...
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September 3rd, 2008 - 3:30 am ICT by IANS
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Moscow/Tbilisi, Sep 3 (DPA) Georgia's government will soon lift martial law, a senior official said Tuesday.The temporary regulations giving President Mikheil Saakashvili near-total authority for wartime command in the former Soviet republic ...
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September 2nd, 2008 - 11:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi, Sep 2 (Xinhua) Georgia Tuesday formally severed diplomatic ties with Russia in protest against Moscow's recognition of two Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent nations, the foreign ...
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September 1st, 2008 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Manila, Sep 1 (Xinhua) The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which rules the Muslim majority Mindanao region in the southern Philippines, is raising its own security force to "protect peace" in the ...
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August 30th, 2008 - 7:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi, Aug 30 (RIA Novosti) Following a bloody conflict with Russia, Georgia Saturday pulled out of a 1994 UN-approved agreement with Abkhazia signed in Moscow. "The Secretariat of Georgian Reintegration Minister Temur ...
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August 29th, 2008 - 9:09 pm ICT by IANS
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Moscow, Aug 29 (Xinhua) Russia believes it is essential to maintain diplomatic relations with Georgia, despite the recent conflicts over the later's break-away regions, the foreign ministry said Friday. "Georgia's Foreign Ministry ...
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August 28th, 2008 - 9:29 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Expressing concern over the increased infiltration bids from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir, the Bharartiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday asked the government to summon the ...
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August 28th, 2008 - 11:45 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Aug 28 (DPA) Russia's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia violates Georgia's sovereignty, the top industrialised democracies have said."Russia's recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia violates the territorial ...
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August 27th, 2008 - 10:58 am ICT by ANI
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Jammu, Aug 27 (ANI): Three militants who are believed to be the same men who infiltrated the international border on Tuesday, killed four civilians and one Junior Commissioned Officer after firing ...
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August 26th, 2008 - 1:09 pm ICT by IANS
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Jammu, Aug 26 (IANS) At least five Border Security Force (BSF) troopers were injured when a patrol party came under fire from across the Line of Control (LoC) in Saujian sector in ...
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August 25th, 2008 - 5:10 pm ICT by IANS
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Paris, Aug 25 (DPA) France ruled out Monday the possibility of the European Union (EU) imposing sanctions against Russia over its military conflict with Georgia. "We have avoided the worst, and ...
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August 25th, 2008 - 9:57 am ICT by IANS
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Paris, Aug 25 (Xinhua) French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for an emergency European Union (EU) meeting Sep 1 to discuss the crisis in Georgia. France currently holds the rotating presidency of ...
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August 24th, 2008 - 6:58 pm ICT by IANS
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Manila, Aug 24 (DPA) The Philippines Sunday rejected calls to halt military offensives against Muslim separatist rebels who launched a spate of deadly attacks in the country's troubled south.Eduardo Ermita, presidential executive ...
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August 23rd, 2008 - 1:59 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Aug 23 (DPA) Russia has not complied with a declared ceasefire that calls for the withdrawal of soldiers on Georgian soil outside of the disputed breakaway regions, the White House said ...
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August 21st, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by IANS
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Tbilisi (Georgia)/Moscow, Aug 21 (DPA) The Kremlin Thursday announced it had begun its first substantial troop withdrawals from Georgia, but army-operated road and rail checkpoints remained in place throughout the Russian area ...
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August 16th, 2008 - 3:37 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Aug 16 (DPA) The US and Russia traded barbs overs Georgia Friday as US President George W. Bush accused Russia of "bullying" its neighbour, while Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia ...
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