Indian PM offers to talk peace with Assam rebels
INDIA offered to hold talks with rebel groups
operating in the country's northeast but rejected demands for
independence and any redrawing of state boundaries.
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India's ruling Congress party faces tough poll test
VOTING begins in India's restive Assam state on
Monday, kicking off polls in five states being seen as the biggest
electoral test of the Congress party-led federal alliance since it
won power in May 2004.
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Pressure mounting on Blair over departure date
REPORTS of an increasingly bitter rift between
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his finance minister and heir
presumptive emerged Sunday as a poll showed nearly half of voters
want Blair to quit immediately.
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