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| Russia reaches out to India and China |
| India, Russia and China will have the first-ever trilateral meeting between their heads of government next week in the backdrop of a proposal to curtail US hegemony by forming a quasi-military alliance with Iran and most oil-rich Central Asian nations.
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| Long hours hurt women |
| Working long hours has a greater negative impact on women than men because it makes them more likely to smoke, drink coffee and eat unhealthy food.
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| 5 hang for rape in Pak |
| Five men convicted of gang-raping a woman were hanged in Pakistan’s eastern punjab province early today.
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| Nepal cuts king’s funds |
| Nepal’s government presented the annual budget today, slashing money allocated for King Gyanendra who was recently forced to give up his authoritarian rule.
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| Israel soldiers kidnapped |
| Hizbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed up to seven Israelis today, in what Israel described as an act of war by Lebanon that would draw a “very pa
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| First open-air funeral in UK |
| Hindus staged their first open-air funeral in Britain for more than 70 years today and hope they can now get the go-ahead to light pyres for all their dead.
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US pop star Sheryl Crow during a performance for US television channel NBC?s Today show in New York on Wednesday. (AP) |
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