Islamabad: "I am not afraid of death," Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari declared here Monday. "I am not afraid of death. I am waiting for my death and I have reached at Awan-e-Sadr by escaping death," he said while...
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Washington: India and Pakistan must end their confrontation and "go for peace", former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has said. "We must stop this confrontation between India and Pakistan... We must go for peace for the sake of the world, because the world considers us to be a nuclear...
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Colombo: As he tries to win the hearts and minds of Tamils in a post-LTTE era, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa plans to constitute a committee to study the root cause of the ethnic question and ways to prevent a repeat of such a conflict that claimed has 70,000 lives. The proposed committee...
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By Andrew North BBC News, Baghdad Nouri Maliki has the incumbent's advantage, with the full weight of the state media and the and the government machinery at his disposal. So it would have been surprising if he was not well ahead in his bid for a second term, after these early results....
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PARIS (AFP) – President Nicolas Sarkozy's party licked its wounds on Monday after a first round battering in French regional elections that saw the resurgence of the far-right National Front. Results showed the opposition Socialists were set to crush the governing UMP party this coming...
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