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Israel begins
releasing
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KETZIOT, Israel: Israel began freeing more than 250
Palestinian prisoners early Friday, making good on a pledge to
president Mahmud Abbas after the takeover of the Gaza Strip by
radical Hamas.
The first armored buses filled
with detainees in handcuffs pulled out of the Ketziot prison in
southern Israel just before 0400 GMT.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Pakistani
president holds crisis talks
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s embattled
President Pervez Musharraf Friday convened a crisis meeting over an
upsurge in Islamist violence as another suicide attack killed at
least four people near the Afghan border.
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Singapore, France
plan bird flu strategy
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SINGAPORE: A weeklong workshop on
preventing and managing an outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia
was launched in Singapore on Thursday.
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27 people killed
in China mudslide
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BEIJING: Pelting rain in
southwest China triggered a mudslide that buried 27 workers alive,
the latest in a series of downpours that have claimed hundreds of
lives this rainy season, state press reported Friday.
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INBRIEF
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SAO PAULO: Brazil’s
deadliest air disaster provoked anger over safety conditions in the
aviation sector as rescuers on Thursday pulled more bodies from the
burned out wreckage.
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