Pakistan tribes raze Taliban houses after bombing
Angry Pakistani tribesmen traded fire with
Taliban militants and demolished their houses in a northwestern
tribal region after a car suicide attack killed at least 40 people,
residents and officials said on Saturday.
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Peruvian president accepts full cabinet resignation
Peruvian President Alan Garcia accepted Friday
the resignation of his entire 13-member cabinet, in a bid to avert
an opposition censure resolution in Congress over a oil-industry
kickback scandal.
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China sets plan to settle 470,000 Tibetan herders
Authorities in the Chinese province of Sichuan
plan to spend 5 billion yuan ($732 million) to settle 470,000
Tibetan herders in permanent houses, state media said, as part of
efforts to promote the development of ethnic Tibetan areas.
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