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NICO - Jan 14, 08 05:02 AM
December 11, 2008 (Rahul Bedi, Janes) - India has not halted the supply of military hardware promised to neighbouring Myanmar but merely "slowed" its delivery, according to military sources in New Delhi.
NICO - Jan 14, 08 05:02 AM
January 12, 2008 (CBC News) - Taiwan's opposition Nationalist Party won a landslide victory in legislative elections Saturday, beating the ruling Democratic Progressive Party.
NICO - Jan 11, 08 02:22 PM
BEIJING January 11, 2008 (AP) - China's trade surplus soared nearly 50 percent in 2007 to a record, despite safety worries about Chinese products and a slowdown in export growth late in the year, according to government data released Friday.
NICO - Jan 11, 08 02:18 PM
COLOMBO January 11, 2007 (Ranga Sirilal, Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government rejected a Tamil Tiger offer on Friday to abide by the terms of a newly-scrapped six-year ceasefire and vowed to push on with a military campaign to crush the rebels.
NICO - Jan 11, 08 02:16 PM
January 11, 2008 (AFP) - UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday pressed Iran to intensify its cooperation with his agency to shed more light on the history of the disputed Iranian atomic programme.
NICO - Jan 11, 08 02:14 PM
January 11, 2008 (AFP) - Kenya's opposition on Friday said it would restart nationwide protests next week, setting up a new showdown with police after international mediation failed to broker a deal with the government.
NICO - Jan 11, 08 02:10 PM
GENEVA January 11, 2008 (AFP) - Food is running short for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip and more aid is urgently needed to prevent a humanitarian crisis, the World Food Programme said on Friday.
NICO - Jan 10, 08 08:46 PM
January 10, 2008 (AFP) - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday he would hold three-way talks with French and German leaders on Turkey's EU membership bid, which the two heavyweights of the bloc oppose.
NICO - Jan 10, 08 08:43 PM
January 10, 2008 (AFP) - Kenya's rival leaders have agreed to work with a mediation panel led by former UN chief Kofi Annan to end a political crisis that has claimed hundreds of lives, the head of the African Union said Thursday.
NICO - Jan 10, 08 08:41 PM
January 10, 2008 (AFP) - US warplanes rained bombs on a rural area just south of Baghdad on Thursday, with the American military saying Al-Qaeda in Iraq safe havens were destroyed in "one of the largest airstrikes" since 2003.