India wants to collaborate with Russia in developing new weapons, Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh said Thursday during a visit to Moscow. We should aim at joint action in military matters and the creation of

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A South African Muslim social worker has been dismissed by prison authorities for wearing a headscarf to work, a radio station reported Thursday. SAFM radio said Feroze Adams, a social worker in Worcester prison in

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The Maldives put its main opposition leader on trial for treason on Thursday, days after jailing another government opponent on terrorism charges in cases human rights activists slammed as politically motivated. Mohamed Nasheed, who heads

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Embattled US President George W. Bush, in a serious political defeat, announced Thursday he had abandoned efforts to get longtime aide Harriet Miers confirmed to the US Supreme Court. "Today, I have reluctantly accepted Harriet

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Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as heavy rains lashed southern India for the third straight day Thursday, triggering floods, an official said. Nearly 50,000 people were evacuated to higher ground as rains

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More than 2,000 of the foreign companies that did business with Iraq in the UN oil-for-food programme made illicit payments to Saddam Hussein's government, a report on the programme said on Thursday. The UN-established Independent

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Belgium is readying itself for a second nation-wide strike in less than a month on Friday as workers down tools and march on the capital to protest government plans to raise the early retirement age.

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A severe drought in western and southern Somalia has killed dozens of people, hundreds of livestock and raised fears of an outbreak of disease after seasonal rains failed, a minister said on Thursday. The fledgling

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Two historians are suing the publishers of Dan Brown's best-selling religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" in a case which lawyers said on Thursday was due to start early next year. Richard Leigh and Michael

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The rupee eased after opening firm on Thursday, weighed down as local stocks declined and companies stepped up dollar purchases for month-end payments. The partially convertible rupee finished at 45.0825/0925 per dollar, off an intra-day

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