Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said. AN Roy said the Students' Islamic Movement of India had also assisted. Pakistan rejected the allegations and said India had given no evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks. "We have solved the 11 July bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and their operatives in India," Mumbai (Bombay) police commissioner AN Roy told a news conference. Tariq Azim Khan, Pakistan's minister of state for information, rejected the allegations.... http://news.bbc.co.uk censor News |
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Typhoon Xangsane Kills 61 in the Philippines, Turns to Vietnam |
| Typhoon Xangsane, the strongest to hit Manila since 1995, left at least 61 people dead and 69 missing in the Philippines, as it heads toward the central Vietnamese city of Hue. The typhoon, with maximum sustain.. full News |
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It was meant to bring peace. Instead, British-brokered deal has rekindled war |
| Hawa Salih Ali sits on the sand with one of her grandchildren, their heads protected from the broiling sun by plastic sheeting draped across wooden poles. Around them sit thousands of other displaced people, th.. full News |
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U.S. commander says insurgency in western province of Iraq unlikely to be defeated until U.S. forces leave |
| The insurgency in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province can be beaten but probably not until after U.S. troops leave the country, the commander of forces in the provincial capital said Friday."An insurgency is.. full News |
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US Senate approves border fence |
| The US Senate has overwhelmingly endorsed the building of a fence along part of the border with Mexico, in an effort to curb illegal immigration. The bill was approved by a vote of 80-19 - with leading Democrat.. full News |
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As Kurd and Arab clashes surge, a third war is looming in Iraq |
| When the Kurdish President, Massoud Barzani, banned the Iraqi flag from being flown on top of public buildings in Kurdistan this month, the Iraqi Kurds took a further symbolic step towards de facto independence.. full News |
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