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/ 17 October 2003
Germany’s embattled leader, Gerhard Schröder, this week offered concessions to left-wing rebels within his own party ahead of a crunch vote on Friday October 17 that could lead to his resignation and the collapse of his government.
Last week’s attacks come at a sensitive time for India, when relations between Hindu and Muslim communities are severely strained, and as India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prepares for a general election next year.
An Indian judge recently ordered an independent scientific investigation into allegations that Pepsi drinks sold in India contain dangerously high levels of pesticides. Fresh tests are to be carried out on Pepsi products across the country this month.
A suicide bomber in Kabul blows up a bus and kills German soldiers in the latest, deadliest attack on Afghan capital.
The most important person in Kathmandu these days is neither King Gyanendra nor the celebrated climber, Sir Edmund Hillary, but Bhattarai, the formidable leader of Nepal’s Maoist rebels.
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/ 22 November 2002
When the crops failed and there was no work, the villagers of Mundiar began searching for food in the jungle. They didn’t find any. Instead, they found grass. And so for most of the summer, the village’s 60 households got by eating sama — a fodder normally given to cattle.
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/ 11 October 2002
General Pervez Musharraf gave his strongest hint on Wednesday night that he will continue to run Pakistan after the general election on Thursday, and will dismiss the new prime minister if necessary. In a TV address he declared that he was returning Pakistan to democracy.
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/ 25 September 2002
The dead are not hard to find. Turn left into the desert after the town of Shiberghan and they lie all around — some in shallow graves, others protruding from the sand. The clothes they wore are still there: decaying black turbans, charred shoes, a prayer cap.
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/ 17 September 2002
April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the corner, in a narrow, cobbled lane that runs alongside, an old Iveco tanker truck is waiting, driver inside.
India this week looked set to anoint as its next president the man responsible for carrying out the country’s controversial nuclear tests four years ago — a Muslim scientist with no political experience. Dr Kalam met the country’s Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.