| Rice
to attend South Korean inauguration
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Seoul,
Feb 16:
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Seoul
for the inauguration of South Korean President-elect Lee Myung-bak
on Feb. 25 and then on to China and Japan, the State Department
said on Friday.
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| US
braces for high-stakes Feb 18 poll in Pak
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Washington,
Feb 16:
The United States has huge stakes riding on elections in Pakistan
next week, from the future of ally President Pervez Musharraf
to the fate of its anti-terrorism war, experts and lawmakers
said on Friday.
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| Zardari,
Sharif to discuss power sharing deal
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Lahore,
Feb 16:
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari
will meet Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif
at the latter's Raiwind estate on Saturday to discuss the possibility
of forming a united government after the February 18 elections.
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| 1,000
dead from cold snap in Afghanistan
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Kabul,
Feb 16:
Nearly 1,000 people have died in heavy snowstorms and severe
cold during the harshest winter to hit Afghanistan in 30 years,
the disaster authority said on Saturday.
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