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WICB, union resolve pay dispute

August 11, 2006

West Indies cricket administrators and players settled a salary dispute and cleared the way for the Caribbean side to play in a limited-overs series with India and Australia next month.

August 11, 2006

Yet-to-recover Flintoff gets England berth

August 11, 2006

Andrew Flintoff was named in England’s provisional One-day International squad on Thursday for October’s Champions Trophy.

August 11, 2006

LTTE lifts canal siege, Army continues shelling

August 10, 2006

The government on Wednesday reclaimed control of a key canal that had been blocked by Tamil rebels in northeastern Sri Lanka in what appeared to an easing of a crisis that has sparked some of the fiercest fighting since a 2002 ceasefire.

August 10, 2006

France, US at odds over Lebanon draft

August 10, 2006

The United States and France appeared at odds on Wednesday over Arab demands to change a UN resolution they are co-sponsoring to call for a complete cessation of Israeli-Hizbollah hostilities and withdrawal of Israeli forces, diplomats said.

August 10, 2006

Early Congo results go president’s way

August 9, 2006

President Joseph Kabila overwhelmingly won a main eastern city, according to the first citywide results to be compiled from the vast Central African nation’s July 30 vote.

August 9, 2006

N Korean leader disappears from public view

August 9, 2006

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hasn’t appeared in public since his country test-fired missiles that drew international condemnation...

August 9, 2006

Reuters cuts ties with Beirut lensman over altered images

August 9, 2006

The Reuters news agency said it has cut its ties with a Beirut-based freelance photographer who it found had manipulated two photographs from the ongoing fighting in Lebanon.

August 9, 2006

Koirala makes attempts to save peace process

August 9, 2006

Nepal's prime minister on Tuesday was holding marathon meetings in an effort to shore up peace efforts a day after Maoist rebels said the talks to end a decade...

August 9, 2006

Car bomb kills three in Lanka capital

August 9, 2006

A car bomb exploded in Colombo on Tuesday, killing three people including a three-year-old boy as fighting continued in Sri Lanka’s northeast...

August 9, 2006

Artillery fire, bombing on, curfew in S Lebanon

August 9, 2006

Israeli airstrikes and artillery pounded villages throughout south Lebanon, killing at least 14 people on Tuesday...

August 9, 2006

Scribe admits faking celebrity interviews

August 8, 2006

A Norwegian journalist has admitted he fabricated interviews with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and American talk show host Oprah Winfrey, media reports said on Monday.

August 8, 2006

15 aid workers slain in Lanka

August 8, 2006

Fifteen Tamil civilians working for a French aid agency were found slain in northeastern Sri Lanka after battles between rebels and the government in a dispute over water supplies, relief agency officials said on Monday.

August 8, 2006

Arab nations back Lebanon over full Israeli withdrawal

August 8, 2006

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fouad Siniora won strong support from Arab states to plead his case at the United Nations for a full Israeli withdrawal even as Israeli warplanes intensified airstrikes and launched a new commando raid in south Lebanon on Monday

August 8, 2006

Hope for hosts as captain drops anchor

August 8, 2006

Mahela Jayawardene hit an unbeaten 77 to get Sri Lanka within 90 runs of victory in the second cricket Test and a series sweep against South Africa.

August 8, 2006

Sri Lankan Army attacks reservoir

August 7, 2006

Government forces launched fresh artillery attacks on Sunday at a disputed water reservoir in Sri Lanka’s northeast, hours after Tamil Tigers

August 7, 2006

Hizbollah barrage kills 11

August 7, 2006

Hizbollah guerrillas unleashed their deadliest barrage of rockets yet into northern Israel, killing 11 people, while Israeli bombardment killed 17 people in southern Lebanon as fighting only intensified despite a draft UN cease fire resolution.

August 7, 2006

Cuba ‘gears up’ for US attack

August 6, 2006

The Cuban government has mobilised citizen defence militias, saying it fears a US attack during Fidel Castro’s health crisis...

August 6, 2006

US, France nod to Lebanon draft

August 6, 2006

In a sign of hope after days of desultory diplomacy, the United States and France reached an agreement on a Security Council...

August 6, 2006

Israel bombs north Beirut, severs strategic road link

August 5, 2006

Israel expanded its assault on Lebanon on Friday, launching its first major attack on the Christian heartland north of Beirut and severing the last significant road link to Syria.

August 5, 2006