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Victory seen in Pakistan as govt collars two most wanted Taliban
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan announced Friday the arrests of two of its most
wanted Taliban insurgents and said the feared militia was staring at
defeat after two years of carnage in the Swat valley.
The northwest valley slipped out of government
control after radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah rose up in July 2007,
commanding thousands of followers who beheaded opponents, burned
schools and fought to enforce Islamic law.
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Obama braces for ‘major’ speech on crisis
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WASHINGTON, D.C: US President Barack Obama is to give a “major”
speech on the economy Monday, one year after the collapse of Lehman
Brothers sparked a global financial crisis, the White House said.
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Woman desperate to bear child cuts open pregnant friend’s belly
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HONG KONG: A Hong Kong woman who was desperate for a child strangled
a pregnant acquaintance and cut open her belly to remove the baby, a
newspaper reported Friday.
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Slain Aussie plotted to blackmail Brunei sultan
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SYDNEY: A shady Australian businessman murdered last week had
plotted to blackmail the sultan of Brunei for millions of dollars
over the failed sale of a 400-year-old miniature Koran, a report
said.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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BEIJING: Tens of millions of people could be infected with swine flu
in China in the coming months, a health ministry official says,
adding that fatalities will be “unavoidable.”
-- AFP
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