A suicide bomber blew himself up in southern Russia on Thursday, but there were no other casualties, witnesses said. The man blew himself up in the Muslim region of Dagestan near a gathering of people

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Former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee announced his retirement from active politics. Vajpayee told a public rally in this western city that he would not contest his seat at future elections. The rally was

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Leaders of Malaysia's non-Muslim religions condemned on Thursday the state's decision to give a man a Muslim burial against his Hindu widow's wishes, and called for a review of their constitutional rights. "We are concerned

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Top Iranian and Russian officials agreed on Thursday to hold talks on a Russian proposal aimed a resolving Tehran's nuclear stand-off with the West, an Iranian diplomat close to the talks said. The proposal, which

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Iraq's most powerful Shia politician met its Kurdish president at a lakeside retreat on Thursday to sketch out plans for a grand coalition government capable of ending the country's violent sectarian unrest. In an illustration

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Two would-be suicide bombers were killed prematurely Thursday in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar while strapping explosives around their bodies, police said. The incident occurred in the town of Spin Boldak, said Kandahar security

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A Croatian court on Thursday handed down a 15-year jail term to an ethnic Serb accused of involvement in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims. Slobodan Davidovic, a former member of the Serbian paramilitary

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A man who tried to take a stun gun onto a flight at Chicago O'Hare airport was arrested after security screeners discovered the gun, police said. The North Carolina resident was on his way back

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At least 30 Yemenis were killed in an overnight landslide which hit a village on a rocky slope near the capital Sanaa with 100 people still missing, an interior ministry official said Thursday. Thirty corpses

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The rupee was little changed on Thursday, with robust foreign fund inflows offsetting some year-end dollar buying by local importers and companies looking to make payments related to overseas borrowings. The rupee ended at 45.155/165

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