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Taiwan Election: High Court orders sealing of ballot boxes
SINGAPORE, MARCH 21.The Taiwanese High Court today intervened to settle the sharp political dispute over the outcome of the presidential poll in the non-sovereign territory. The Court ordered the seizure and sealing of the ballot boxes, as the ...

Islamists face rout in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, MARCH 21. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's secular Government won sweeping victories in two key Muslim-dominated States and the fundamentalist Islamic opposition looked headed for a nationwide rout in today's ...

Heavy security in Kosovo
CABRA (SERBIA-MONTENEGRO), MARCH 21. NATO-led peacekeepers in full riot gear set up barricades and checkpoints to prevent unrest on Sunday at the funerals for two ethnic Albanian boys whose drowning, blamed on Serbs, sparked violence in Kosovo. ...

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, MARCH 21. Insurgents fired a rocket at U.S. troops in western Iraq, killing two soldiers, while in Baghdad rockets fired toward the U.S.-led coalition headquarters on Sunday killed two Iraqi civilians and injured an American soldier, ...

Ruling coalition romps home
SINGAPORE, MARCH 21.Malaysia's ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN), was tonight cruising comfortably towards a possible landslide win in the country's 11th general election. It crossed the two-third mark in the 219-member Parliament early ...

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  • U.S. daily attacks Powell for praising Musharraf
  • New `fake stories' row hits U.S. media
  • `Rumsfeld wanted Iraq bombed just after 9/11'
  • Bush kicks off poll rally despite anti-war protests
  • Target eludes Pakistani forces in Al-Qaeda operations
  • Foreign students in U.K. `routinely' spied upon, says report
  • Schroeder gives up party post
  • Wanted: corpse for leading role

    India & World
    Pakistan team to study Chenab projects
    ISLAMABAD, MARCH 21.A three-member team led by the Pakistan Commissioner for Indus Waters, Syed Jamaat Ali Shah, will leave for India tomorrow to inspect two hydropower projects and two canals on the Chenab river. The Pakistani delegation ...

    China, India `determined to step up' military ties
    BEIJING, MARCH 21. "Chinese and Indian militaries are determined to step up their cooperation to a new high in line with the wishes of the leadership of the two countries," the Chinese Defence Minister, Cao Gangchuan, said here today. ``I ...



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