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Tigers train 6,000 civilians for war

July 3, 2006

Tamil Tiger rebels have trained 6,000 civilians in armed combat as part of efforts to intensify its liberation struggle...

July 3, 2006

Mexicans vote in presidential elections

July 3, 2006

Mexicans decided a tight presidential race on Sunday that exposed painful class divisions, with a leftist offering himself as a saviour to the poor...

July 3, 2006

Give us body, say Zarqawi family

July 3, 2006

Slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been buried in an undisclosed location, the US military and Iraqi government officials sai ond Sunday.

July 3, 2006

Bin Laden endorses Zarqawi’s successor

July 3, 2006

Osama bin Laden endorsed the successor to slain militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an Internet posting on Saturday...

July 3, 2006

Hincapie takes the overall lead

July 2, 2006

Jimmy Casper of France won a sprint finish to take the first stage of the Tour de France on Sunday...

July 2, 2006

Captain Becks signs off …

July 2, 2006

David Beckham quit as England captain on Sunday, the morning after his side went out in the World Cup quarter-finals on penalties to Portugal.

July 2, 2006

Zimbabwe frees three apartheid-era spies

July 2, 2006

Zimbabwe on Saturday freed three apartheid-era spies who were serving life sentences for a politically inspired murder.

July 2, 2006

Lawmaker’s citizenship leads to Dutch govt collapse

July 1, 2006

Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende is set to hand in his government’s resignation on Friday, after the ruling coalition fell apart over the handling of the citizenship of a Somali-born Dutch lawmaker.

July 1, 2006

Israel hits Interior Ministry, Hamas offers soldier

July 1, 2006

Israeli warplanes struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry early Friday, setting it ablaze as Arab leaders tried to forge a deal that would halt the Israeli offensive and free a 19-year-old soldier held by gunmen allied with the ruling Islamic Hamas.

July 1, 2006

Osama praises Zarqawi, wants his body released

July 1, 2006

Osama bin Laden called on US President George W Bush in an audiotape released on Friday to release the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and said Jordan should allow the slain terrorist to be buried in his homeland.

July 1, 2006

Arcelor shareholders vote out merger with Severstal

July 1, 2006

Shareholders holding 57.94% of Arcelor voted against deal, Kinsch says Arcelor’s ‘‘true value’’ has been recognised

July 1, 2006

No fig leaf for nude French gift to US city

June 30, 2006

A bronze statue of an unclothed boy—a gift to La Crosse from its sister city of Epinal in France—won’t have any fig leaf-like additions to cover its European-style nudity, city officials have eventually decided.

June 30, 2006

Tomb in Egypt reveals flowers, not mummies

June 30, 2006

Archaeologists hoped the first tomb discovered in 80 years in this valley of the kings would hold the mummy of King Tut’s mother.

June 30, 2006

Insurgents offer to halt attacks in Iraq

June 30, 2006

Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks—including those on American troops—if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials said on Wednesday.

June 30, 2006

US teen held back from eloping to Mideast

June 30, 2006

A teenager who tried to secretly travel to the Mideast to visit a Palestinian man she met on the Internet will appear in Family Court on Thursday. A judge could place her under court supervision until she turns 18 next year.

June 30, 2006

Sealed cars on refrigerated tracks in Tibet

June 30, 2006

The first railway to Tibet is ready to start operation this weekend, using sealed cars to cope with the thin air and hi-tech cooling to keep the frozen track bed stable, the Railway Ministry announced on Thursday.

June 30, 2006

Women vote and participate in Kuwait for the first time

June 30, 2006

Women went to the polls on Thursday for the first time in Kuwait, voting for parliament members in an election that has shaken up politics-as-usual in the conservative oil-rich emirate.

June 30, 2006

Israeli army arrests Hamas ministers, lawmakers

June 30, 2006

Israeli troops rounded up dozens of ministers and lawmakers from the Palestinians’ ruling Hamas party on Thursday, while pressing a military campaign in Gaza meant to win the release of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas gunmen.

June 30, 2006

Federer strolls into the record book

June 28, 2006

Agassi ahead on final Big W tour; Henin-Hardenne, Clijsters advance into second round

June 28, 2006

Eclectic mix of referees comes with eccentricities

June 28, 2006

When FIFA set up the system for choosing referees, the aim was to have the corps mirror the global nature of the tournament. That works, to a point. But different countries have different officiating standards, and that can lead to inconsistency.

June 28, 2006

Iran rejects nuke talks with the US

June 28, 2006

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has rejected the prospect of talks with the United States on the nuclear programme, saying nothing would be gained, state television reported today.

June 28, 2006

Hamas, Fatah okay Israel plan

June 28, 2006

The rival Hamas and Fatah movements today completed an agreement over a plan that implicitly recognises Israel, ending weeks of acrimonious negotiations, a top official said.

June 28, 2006

Rain pushes Day 1 off court

June 27, 2006

In what hardly qualifies as an upset,Wimbledon began with a rain delay on Monday.

June 27, 2006

Russia confirms death of hostages

June 27, 2006

Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday evening the death of the four diplomats who had been kidnapped by Iraqi insurgents in Baghdad on June 3.

June 27, 2006

Timor’s PM clings to power, Nobel laureate resigns

June 26, 2006

Timor Leste’s ruling party refused to fire the prime minister today, defying the demands of popular President Xanana Gusmao and triggering the resignation of the Nobel prize-winning Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta.

June 26, 2006

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