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Pakistan’s spy agency ‘behind’ Mumbai attacks
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NEW DELHI: India has for the first time directly accused
Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence agency—the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)—of involvement in last year’s
Mumbai attacks.
“The perpetrators planned, trained and
launched their attacks from Pakistan, and the organizers were and
remain clients and creations of the ISI,” Foreign Secretary
Shivshankar Menon said in a speech in Paris on Thursday that was
picked up by the Indian media.
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FEATURE
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Democracy still elusive in Iran
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TEHRAN: Iranians shouted “independence, liberty, Islamic
republic” during the revolution which toppled the US-backed
monarchy, but hopes for freedom and democracy have yet to be
fulfilled 30 years down the road.
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Wheat shortage looms anew amid record drought in China
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BEIJING: China was struggling Friday to get water to millions of
people and save swathes of its wheat harvest, after raising its
drought emergency to the highest level for the first time.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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MOSCOW: President Dmitry Medvedev warned Friday that Russia faced a
“systemic threat” from extremism and urged security chiefs to be
on alert for possible unrest linked to the economic crisis.
-- AFP
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