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Jerusalem
car explosions hamper US mission
Palestinian militants
set off two car bombs in Jerusalem on Sunday, injuring up to four
people and hampering a US envoy’s mission to end eight months of Israeli-Palestinian
violence.
British
race riot leaves over 20 hurt, 17 arrested
More than 20 people were hurt and 17 arrested during a race
riot that turned into an ugly standoff with hundreds of police in
northwest England overnight, British police said on Sunday.
Pakistan
feels economic cost of struggle with India
Anaemic economic
growth and a dearth of foreign investment is forcing Pakistan to
look at the heavy cost imposed by a foreign policy mired in its
conflict with India.
Bhutan discovers charms of
idiot box
After sitting
cross-legged around their wood-burning stove for a dinner of rice
and butter tea, the Penjor family used to chat a bit and then go
to bed early.
20
abducted from Philippines resort
Gunmen, believed
to be Muslim rebels, seized 20 people, including two American missionaries,
in a dawn raid on a tourist resort in the southern Philippines Island
on Sunday, officials said. A third American and 17 Filipinos were
also seized in another raid on Dos Palmas resort off Palawan Island.
Left-sponsored
strike hits Nepal
A three-day general strike called by six communist groups began
in Kathmandu on Sunday. The groups are demanding the resignation
of Prime Minister Girija Prasada Koirala over alleged irregularities
in a deal by the Royal Nepal Airlines Corp to lease a Boeing 767
aircraft from Austria’s Lauda Air.
Egyptian
feminist Saadawi still fighting strong
Bull
in a China shop or liberator of Arab women? Nawal el-Saadawi, possibly
the most outspoken woman in the Arab world and a woman writer best
known abroad, has never been shy of expressing her feminist opinions.
Plaintiff asks court to pluck
out man’s eye
In
a literal instance of the saying ‘‘an eye for an eye’’, an Islamic
court in northern Nigeria has been asked to remove a man’s right
eye after he was found guilty of partially blinding a friend, court
officials said.
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