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Panic after air
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SRI LANKA: The Sri Lankan capital was enveloped in
“total panic” early Sunday as Tamil Tiger air attacks and
unexpected early fireworks forced World Cup cricket fans to flee
their parties for safety.
Fans dressed in Sri Lankan team
T-shirts and carrying the national flag had earlier braved the rain
to gather in their hundreds at playgrounds, clubs, hotels and bars
showing live coverage of the match on giant screens.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Indonesia executes
murderer of family
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JAKARTA: An Indonesian man was
executed by a firing squad for his 1999 conviction of killing a
family of six on Borneo island, a jail warden said Sunday.
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Suicide blast
kills 24, injures 45
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PAKISTAN: At least 24 people were
killed and 45 wounded, including a federal minister, in a powerful
suicide blast at a political rally in northwest Pakistan, officials
said.
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Car bomb kills 58
near Iraqi Shiite shrine
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KARBALA, Iraq: A suicide car
bomber detonated his payload on a crowded street near a revered
Shiite shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala, killing at least 58
people and wounding nearly 170 others.
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Top al-Qaeda
operative taken into US custody
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WASHINGTON: A top al-Qaeda
commander who led operations in Afghanistan and plotted the
assassination of Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has been
taken into US custody, according to the Pentagon.
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INBRIEF
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HAVANA: A top Cuban
official would not confirm or deny that President Fidel Castro might
attend annual May Day events in Cuba, in what would be the
convalescing communist leader’s first public appearance in nine
months.
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