NRI couple in international custody battle
Children of two doctors are caught in the middle of a custody battle that has developed into an international jurisdictional tug of war between courts in India and the United States.



S Leone rebels free 139 peacekeepers in Liberia
Sierra Leone rebels have freed 139 UN hostages in the first sign of a breakthrough in a two-week-long crisis that threatened to overwhelm the world's biggest peacekeeping operation, a UN spokesman said on Monday.



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United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) proposed on Monday that children should be treated as ``zones of peace''.



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