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US stuck with Musharraf–Presidential bets
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WASHINGTON: Top presidential candidates said Sunday the United
States was stuck for now with Pakistan’s unpopular President
Pervez Musharraf at a time of boiling unrest in the nuclear-armed US
ally.
But Democratic and Republican runners said the
US administration should still be pressing Musharraf for tougher
anti-terror action, and free elections, following last week’s
assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Seoul pardons
tycoon over huge financial collapse
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SEOUL: The founder of South Korea’s Daewoo Group, who had been
given a lengthy jail term for his role in one of the world’s
largest corporate failures, was pardoned Monday under a traditional
New Year amnesty.
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Two drown as waves hit beach
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KUPANG, Indonesia: Waves swept holidaymakers off a beach in eastern
Indonesia causing two persons to drown and a small cargo ship was
missing in high seas, an official and witnesses said Monday.
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FM Albar tells Pakistan: Continue with January
elections
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said
Monday Pakistan should go ahead with January 8 elections as planned
despite tensions over the killing of opposition leader Benazir
Bhutto.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand: Five bombs planted by suspected
separatist rebels rocked Thailand’s troubled south early Monday,
injuring dozens of people in a town on the Malaysian border, police
said.
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