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REUTERS, WARSAW- Poland is more likely to agree to host a US missile shield after signs Washington is ready to meet Polish demands for enhanced military cooperation, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. "I will not announce a success before the ink is dry but the information we are getting makes the acceptance of my government's demands by the US more probable than only a few weeks ago," Tusk told a news conference. |
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Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 3:25 pm BdST MOSCOW/TBILISI, Tue Aug 12, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military operations in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of fighting and just before French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to hold peace talks in Moscow. A Kremlin spokesman confirmed Russian news agency reports that Medvedev had issued instructions to the Defense Ministry to "stop the operation to force the Georgian authorities to peace". |
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Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 3:23 pm BdST HARARE Tue Aug 12, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party said power-sharing talks resuming on Tuesday risked collapse as it haggled with the opposition over roles in a new government. Marathon talks have so far failed to secure a breakthrough. |
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Thursday, 14 August 2008 |
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Tue, Aug 12th, 2008 3:13 pm BdST MOSCOW Tue Aug 12, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday he had ordered an end to the military operation in Georgia, Interfax news agency reported. Pro-Western Georgia and Russia came into direct conflict over South Ossetia last week after Tbilisi launched an offensive to regain control over the pro-Moscow breakaway separatist region. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Thirteen people were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb attack on an air force bus in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, police said. There was no claim of responsibility, but Islamist militants based on the Afghan border have been blamed for a series of attacks on security forces over the past year. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Washington, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The United States has few options for stopping Russia's military advance deep into Georgia and is partly to blame for encouraging Georgia's pro-Western government to overreach, analysts said. Despite warnings by President George W. Bush for Russia to "reverse the course it appears to be on" and withdraw its troops to avert a "dramatic and brutal escalation" of violence," U.S. military intervention in the small former Soviet republic is nearly unthinkable, analysts said on Monday. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Srinagar, India, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Police fired on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, killing five people as huge demonstrations against what Muslim traders said was an economic blockade by Hindus roiled the region, officials said. Several people were injured in two separate firing incidents which came a day after four people, including a separatist leader, were killed by police trying to stop tens of thousands of Muslim protesters from crossing into Pakistan. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Peshawar, Pakistan, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official said on Tuesday. "He was believed to be among the top leadership of al Qaeda," the senior security official said on condition of anonymity. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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New Delhi, Aug 12 (BBC Online) Three people were killed when police in Indian-administered Kashmir fired shots to disperse a procession which defied a curfew in the valley region. Five others were injured in the firing which took place in the northern district of Bandipora. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Srinagar, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Indian Kashmir remained under curfew on Tuesday a day after police opened fire to stop Muslim traders from crossing into Pakistan to protest what they said was an economic blockade by Hindus over a land row. Tens of thousands of people marched to the de facto border with Pakistan to try and sell goods there, in one of the region's biggest protests on Monday since a separatist revolt against New Delhi broke out in Kashmir in 1989. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Cape Canaveral, USA, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - NASA has abandoned plans to get its replacement for the retiring US space shuttles into service by 2013 because of a lack of additional funds and technical issues, officials said on Monday. The U.S. space agency had hoped to fly astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a new spaceship called Orion as early as September 2013, well before its formal deadline or goal of March 2015. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Kathmandu, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - A special assembly ruling Nepal will elect a new prime minister later this week, an official said on Monday, a post likely to go to the chief of former Maoist rebels who fought a bloody civil war in the Himalayan nation. The Maoists scored a surprise win in a special assembly election in April but did not achieve a parliamentary majority, sparking a power tussle which left Nepal struggling to form a new government four months after the polls. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Tbilisi, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will lead efforts on Tuesday to end hostilities between Russia and Georgia as the conflict appeared to widen with pro-Moscow rebel forces opening a fresh offensive against Georgian troops. Sarkozy was due to arrive in Moscow at 0910 GMT and meet President Dmitry Medvedev before flying to Georgia on a day of intense diplomacy aimed at ending violence in a region key to international oil transit. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Paul Taylor BRUSSELS, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Georgia's hopes of joining NATO and the European Union have suffered a setback because of this week's fighting with Russia, potentially reducing its attractiveness to investors. The conflict over the breakaway region of South Ossetia has revived transatlantic and intra-European differences over Georgia and further undermined confidence in some quarters in its quixotic U.S.-backed leader, diplomats and analysts say. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Nelson Banya HARARE, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party warned power-sharing talks resuming on Tuesday risked collapse as it haggled with the opposition over roles in a new government. Marathon talks have so far failed to secure a breakthrough. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK, Aug 12 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail on Monday and went into exile, accusing political enemies who removed him in a 2006 coup of meddling in the courts to "finish off" him and his family. The Supreme Court issued arrest warrants for Thaksin and his wife, Potjaman, and seized 13 million baht ($385,000) in bail bonds after he failed to appear in a corruption case. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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PHNOM PENH, Tue Aug 12, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - International donors have been withholding payments to Cambodia's Khmer Rouge `Killing Fields' tribunal because of concerns about corruption, officials said on Tuesday. Helen Jarvis, an Australian working on the Cambodian side of the joint Cambodian-U.N. tribunal, said 250 Cambodians had not been paid a total of $700,000 since June, threatening the future of the long-awaited court, which is running over time and budget. |
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ISTANBUL, Tue Aug 12,(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - A visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Turkey on Thursday reflects a desire by the NATO member to remain on good terms with an unpredictable neighbor and secure future energy needs. President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan have come under criticism at home and abroad for inviting Ahmadinejad, a visit that marks a diplomatic coup for the firebrand leader who has been shunned by European countries. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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PARIS, Tue Aug 12, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - French authorities have opened an investigation into an anonymous threat against Chinese national carrier Air China, a spokesman for the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Air China's Paris office received a letter, written in English, threatening reprisals if Muslim prisoners in China were not released. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Tue Aug 12,(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Abbas's office said on Tuesday. Nabil Abu Rdainah, Abbas's spokesman, told the official WAFA news agency Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan showed a "lack of seriousness". |
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