West will fail in 'war on terror' without Pakistan: Musharraf
The United States and its allies will fail in the so-called "war on
terror" without the support of Pakistan and its intelligence service,
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said Saturday.
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Rebels to hold talks with Myanmar rulers
The largest ethnic
rebel group battling Myanmar’s military sent a delegation to Yangon on
Saturday to hold informal ceasefire talks with the military rulers the
group’s secretary-general said.
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Baghdad under curfew amid fears of new violence
The streets of
the city fell silent, apart from the rumble of US armoured cars and
helicopter gunships and the occasional dull thud of an explosion. "The
curfew was implemented on the advice of multinational forces to the
prime minister because they felt violence would increase today,"
interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told
AFP.
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