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MAY 4 (Reuters) - Nepal's president has asked sacked army chief General Rookmangud Katawal to stay in his post, defying the Maoist government and thrusting the Himalayan republic deeper into political crisis.
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WASHINGTON: Stepping up pressure on Pakistan to take concrete action against the Taliban, the US has given Islamabad two weeks time to eliminate the insurgents from its soil before Washington determines what it will do next.
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NEW DELHI, April 22 (UPI) — A four-hour standoff between Maoist rebels and Indian authorities ended Wednesday with the release of a train and its 300 passengers unharmed, officials said.
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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — Indians are voting in their tens of millions in a month-long general election that creates huge logistical issues in the world's largest democracy.
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By C. Bryson Hull COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tiger rebels traded blame on Tuesday over combat during a two-day holiday fighting pause, which the separatist rebels said fell short of the full ceasefire they are demanding.
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At least six paramilitary troops have been killed in India's eastern Orissa state after dozens of Maoist rebels attacked a bauxite mine, police say.
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… to needle tip will be able to give details about cancer and their response to treatment given by doctors, according to a new technology announced on Sunday. The pioneering work was done by California based Stanford University School of Medicine. …
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SYDNEY, April 12 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described Fiji's newly reappointed government as "virtually, a military dictatorship", after the South Pacific nation's president ignored calls by a court for fresh elections.
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By Muklis Ali BOGOR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Friday his Democrat Party could form a coalition with the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), amid jockeying ahead of July's key presidential election …
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SUVA, April 10 (Reuters) - Fiji's president revoked the politically unstable South Pacific nation's constitution on Friday, named himself to replace temporarily a post-coup interim government and called for fresh elections by 2014.
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