G8 leaders to set up task force on food crisis

Leaders from the Group of Eight industrial powers will agree to establish a task force at their summit next month to tackle the world food crisis, a report said Monday.

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Anwar remains at Embassy, files suit

Malaysia’s main opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, taking refuge at the Turkish embassy after saying his life was in danger, filed a defamation suit on Monday over fresh accusations that he committed sodomy.

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Taliban in Pakistan ends all peace deals with Government

Taliban in Pakistan has decided to end all peace deals with the government, according to TV reports here Sunday. Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar was quoted as saying that the decision at its central council was taken as protest against the military operation in the Khyber agency in Pakistan’s northwest.

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Bullfight death mars Karunanidhi's birthday bash

A bullfight organised by the ruling Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) on Monday in Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu turned tragic when one man was killed and over a hundred injured. It was chaos in the name of the Chief Minister M Karunanidhi that was the end result of a bullfight organised by the DMK in the city.

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