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December 4, 2008 Thursday
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Rice pushes Pakistan to act

NEW DELHI - SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan must show 'resolve and urgency' as she called on Wednesday for international cooperation in the investigation into the Mumbai attacks.

Ms Rice arrived in New Delhi as part of a US effort to ease tensions in the region after a three-day terrorist attack killed 171 people in India's financial capital.

 
Explosives found, defused

MUMBAI - INDIAN police on Wednesday discovered and defused explosives at Mumbai's main railway station, left by militants who struck the city last week.

Leaders to meet in Turkey

ISTANBUL - THE presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan will hold further talks in Istanbul Friday, a statement from the office of Turkey's president said on Wednesday.

The talks between Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan, are the second sponsored by Turkey in a effort to bring the two troubled neighbours closer. They will be hosted by their Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul.

'We didn't help transport cash'

TAIPEI - TAIWAN'S air force on Wednesday denied allegations that it assisted former president Chen Shui-bian by smuggling cash, as a money laundering probe into the detained Chen's activities continued.

 
Taiwan won't rush peace pact
HK gourmet slams guide
Media reform bills draw fire
Ma nixes Dalai Lama visit
7 dead in nursing home fire
Suspects to stay in Pakistan?
HK finds more tainted eggs
China to post anti-terror cops
Ma urges to lift film ban
Japan's emperor scraps duties
India to show Rice 'evidence'
No pushing back climate change
S.Korea on guard
Brazil okays missile sale
Trapped on mountain peak
More modern police needed
Fisherman recall attacks
China praised for global role
300,000 ill from tainted milk
India warned of attacks
Gunmen 'stateless actors'
 

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