Myanmar's prime minister shunned the international clamour for the release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi by avoiding his country's political crisis in a speech Saturday at an Asian leaders' summit. General Khin Nyunt

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Saudi police arrested on Saturday a foreigner who was hiding a cache of weapons and explosives at his home in Riyadh, the Interior Ministry and security sources said. A ministry official said in a statement

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Angry villagers smashed windshields of buses and trucks in north India on Saturday when the vehicles tried to break a highway blockade imposed in protest against the kidnapping of three Indians in Iraq. About 500

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Talks on Saturday between an Iraqi mediator and a representative of a Kuwaiti firm to try to free seven of the company's employees have been positive but have yet to reach a final deal, the

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Nigeria's mainly Muslim state of Kano resumed polio immunisations on Saturday after a 10-month ban which health workers said was caused by authorities pandering to radicals. Kano state governor Ibrahim Shekarau kicked off the restart

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Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz warned Saturday that suspected extremists who had failed to surrender under a royal amnesty would be "annihilated". "We had given the deviant group

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French anti-terrorism judges placed two Frenchmen released by the US military from Guantanamo Bay under formal investigation on Saturday, one step short of laying formal charges under French law. Another judge was due to decide

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Fears of an epidemic stalked flood-hit regions of South Asia on Saturday, with thousands of sick people flocking hospitals as rivers receded. Officials said nearly 7,000 people reported at hospitals with diarrhoea and other water-borne

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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right government was under fresh strain on Saturday as coalition partners hurled insults at each other in parliament at a stormy meeting that included scuffles with the opposition. One parliamentarian from

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Palestinian gunmen briefly abducted three foreign church volunteers and militants torched government buildings in the West Bank on Saturday, confronting Yasser Arafat with a fresh wave of lawlessness. Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat condemned the

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