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US urges ‘cooler heads’ between Japan, China

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The United States called on Tuesday for calm between Japan and China after Beijing sent ships to disputed islands in the East China Sea in response to Tokyo's purchase of them.

Canada breaks off relations with Iran

Canada closed its Tehran embassy on Friday and ordered Iranian diplomats be expelled, in a damning severance of ties in which it accused the Islamic Republic of being the biggest threat to world peace

We don’t understand cricket but we like cricket diplomacy: US

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Cricket might sound and look like Greek to the Americans, but they are in full support of the cricket diplomacy between archrivals India and Pakistan.

‘CIA agents’ a thorn in Pak-US ties

The presence of ‘unregistered’ officials of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Pakistan is set to create a new rift between Islamabad and Washington, diplomatic sources said.
“Pakistan has be

PM Manmohan allays S’pore PM misgivings

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Just hours after visiting Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told a gathering of top business honchos here that India’s business environment is complicated, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought

Pak foreign secy meets separatists, upsets India

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In yet another attempt to provoke India ahead of the two-day foreign secretary level talks between the two nations, Pakistan’s foreign secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani on Tuesday met Kashmiri separatist l

India allows investments from Pakistan: Sharma

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In order to strengthen bilateral economic relations, India has allowed foreign direct investment from Pakistan, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said on Friday.

Emphasising the need to inc

Pak defers signing of visa deal, India miffed

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India and Pakistan on Friday failed to sign an agreement on a liberalised visa regime, expected at the end of the home secretary-level talks in Islamabad, and merely agreed to do so soon, after Islam

Pakistan is moving towards granting MFN status to India: Zardari

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Pakistan is moving towards granting Most Favoured Nation-status to India 'despite some hurdles' as the two countries have made significant progress in trade cooperation, President Asif Ali Zardari sai

China premier tells Clinton to respect differences

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Friday asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to respect differences between the two countries, as US officials scrambled to resolve a row over a dissident.

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