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An American academic of Chinese origin, Li Shaomin, has been found guilty of spying for Taiwan by a Chinese court and ordered to be deported, according to the official Chinese news agency.

2. Beijing revels in Olympics victory

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Beijing residents have been celebrating all night after the International Olympic Committee's decision to award the 2008 Games to the Chinese capital.

3. Taleban 'outlaw internet'

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Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement has banned the use of internet in the country, an Afghan news agency has reported.

4. More soldiers~ tanks enter West Bank

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank: Extra Israeli soldiers, tanks and military vehicles took up new positions yesterday in the West Bank, beefing up their presence around Palestinian towns as tension and violence escalated.

5. Shimla~ Lahore pacts key to future talks~ says India

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NEW DELHI: India said yesterday that any accord with Pakistan to resolve over 50 years of hostility should be based on earlier pacts and not on a failed draft agreement the two countries worked out at their summit this week.

6. Wahid suspends House

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JAKARTA: Indonesia’s embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid issued a decree early today to suspend the legislature and block his imminent impeachment, and called for new elections to be held in one year.

7. Outraged Arabs warn Israel over Aqsa plan

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JERUSALEM: The Palestinians and Israel were bracing for a potentially bloody showdown today over one of the world’s holiest sites, where a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set off the Palestinian uprising 10 months ago.

8. Missiles fired at Gaza ‘weapons factory’

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JERUSALEM: Israel challenged the Palestinian Authority yesterday to do more to stop bomb-makers after Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at a building, allegedly used by Palestinians to produce arms.

9. Arab experts to discuss revival of Israel boycott

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DAMASCUS: Arab experts will meet in Damascus today to discuss reviving the Arab boycott of Israel, which slackened after the start of the Middle East peace process in the early 1990s.

10. Palestinians surprised by

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GAZA CITY: The Palestinian leadership voiced its “surprise” over the recent stance taken by the US House of Representatives toward Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, in a statement released yesterday.

11. Mahathir warns Malays about study privileges~ say reports

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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad, frustrated at majority Malays’ poor academic results despite favoured treatment, has threatened to remove privileges if they don’t buck up, yesterday’s newspapers reported.

12. SA squatters seize more land

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CAPE TOWN: Several hundred South African shack dwellers yesterday occupied state land in Cape Town’s Khayelistha black township in the second such land invasion here in less than a week.

13. IMF urges Turkish parties to back rescue deal in public

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ISTANBUL: The IMF said over the weekend it had received full backing for a $15.7bn rescue pact from all three of Turkey’s coalition parties and hoped they would give stronger public backing in the future.

14. Singapore glued to painful reforms

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SINGAPORE: Singapore is not going to let anything stop its dogged pursuit of painful economic reforms, even as its four million people struggle to cope in a recession induced by a global downturn in electronics, analysts say.

15. Briefs: Saarc diplomats to meet after two-month delay

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16. We have proof against aid workers~ say Taleban

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KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taleban rulers yesterday brushed aside international criticism over the arrest of 24 foreign and local staff of an aid agency, saying they had strong evidence the detainees were promoting Christianity.

17. Myanmar opposition to mark uprising anniversary

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YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party is planning to mark the anniversary of Myanmar’s bloody 1988 student uprising today for the first time in several years, sources said.

18. Afghans in Pakistan screened for asylum

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GENEVA: UN and Pakistani authorities have started screening Afghan refugees in three camps in a move expected to provide most of them with temporary asylum in Pakistan, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

19. Arroyo in Malaysia as Milf truce deal signed

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KUALA LUMPUR: Philippines President Gloria Arroyo received a red carpet welcome here yesterday on her first foreign trip since taking office, capped by the signing of a formal ceasefire pact with a key Muslim separatist group.

20. Five rebels killed in Macedonia as leaders struggle for peace

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OHRID: Macedonian police killed five suspected ethnic Albanian guerrilla fighters in Skopje yesterday, casting a shadow over struggling efforts to end a six-month insurgency which has pushed the Balkan country towards war.

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