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PDP to attend all-party meet, Separatists to stay away

20 Sep 2010 at 6:12am
Srinagar, Sept 20 (PTI): Seeking ways to defuse the three - month unrest at Kashmir Valley in India, an all-party delegation led by Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram...

Fresh floods hit southern Pakistan

20 Sep 2010 at 6:01am
As the UN launches its largest ever response to a natural disaster, flood...

Japan urges China to act calmly in islands row

20 Sep 2010 at 6:01am
Japan has called for calm in the wake of China's apparent decision to suspend top-level ties over a territorial row. A government spokesman said Japan...

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Japan urges calm after China severs contacts

20 Sep 2010 at 1:34am

Japan urged China to remain calm and not inflame their diplomatic spat further Monday after Beijing severed high-level contacts over the detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain near disputed islands.

Philippine troops kill wanted Abu Sayyaf militant

19 Sep 2010 at 3:09am
Philippine troops clashed with Abu Sayyaf gunmen in a southern coastal village Sunday and killed a long-wanted militant who helped in the 2001 kidnapping of three American and 17 Filipino tourists and the takeover of a hospital, the military said.



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19 Sep 2010 at 3:09am

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Japan urges calm in islands row

20 Sep 2010 at 3:53am
Japan urges calm after China's apparent decision to suspend top-level contacts over a territorial row, and says it has not been formally informed of the move.

Clean-up in Taiwan after typhoon

20 Sep 2010 at 2:23am
Typhoon Fanapi makes landfall in Fujian, China, a day after causing floods and transport chaos and injuring 100 people in Taiwan.

Fijian detainee in 'death leap'

20 Sep 2010 at 5:30am
A Fijian man dies after jumping from the roof of an Australian immigration centre hours before he was to be deported, human rights groups say.