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      <title>Reuters: South Asia</title>
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      <title>Pakistan seeks talks with &quot;disgruntled&quot; Baluchistan</title>
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       ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani invited ethnic Baluch leaders for talks on Tuesday in an effort to ease a separatist insurgency in their gas and mineral-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.
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      <title>Q+A - Obama faces political peril with Afghan policy</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama&apos;s decision on a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan carries political peril as his Democratic party gears up for tough mid-term elections next year.
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      <title>U.S. not expecting quick Afghan troop hikes by allies</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. allies will likely wait weeks before deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan rather than responding immediately to President Barack Obama&apos;s coming announcement on U.S. forces, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
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      <title>Obama seeks to reassure Singh on U.S.-India ties</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama sought to reassure Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday of his commitment to boosting U.S. ties with India even as his administration has set its rivals, China and Pakistan, as top priorities.
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      <title>Sri Lanka ex-general seeks security boost ahead of poll bid</title>
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       COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka&apos;s top soldier, who quit the army last week sparking speculation he planned to run for president, petitioned the Supreme Court on Tuesday to order the government to provide him with massively increased security.
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      <title>U.S. Afghan buildup may involve brigade per quarter</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon envisages carrying out President Barack Obama&apos;s anticipated troop buildup in Afghanistan gradually at a pace of about one brigade per quarter, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
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      <title>Nepal temple begins mass slaughter of animals</title>
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       KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Priests at a Hindu temple in Nepal began sacrificing some 200,000 animals and birds on Tuesday in an ancient ritual to appease gods that was condemned by animal rights activists as the single largest mass slaughter of animals on earth.
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      <title>Afghanistan to hold graft conference &quot;very soon&quot;</title>
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       KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan will hold a conference on corruption in the near future, an official said on Tuesday, at a time when President Hamid Karzai has come under pressure from Western countries to root out rampant graft in his government.
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      <title>FACTBOX - How Obama&apos;s Afghan strategy is shaping up</title>
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       (Reuters) - President Barack Obama&apos;s review of war strategy in Afghanistan centers on sending 30,000 to 40,000 more U.S. troops next year, although some of his advisers favor a deployment of 10,000 to 20,000 that would focus on training Afghan forces rather than expanding military operations.
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      <title>Obama says will &quot;finish the job&quot; in Afghanistan</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he will announce his decision soon to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in an effort to &quot;finish the job&quot; of an  unpopular and costly eight-year war.
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      <title>Soldiers kill 18 militants in Pakistan Khyber area</title>
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       LANDIKOTAL, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani soldiers killed 18 militants on Tuesday in a campaign to break a network orchestrating attacks on Western forces&apos; supplies to Afghanistan and carrying out bombings, a security official said.
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      <title>Ex-Soviet states see threat of Afghan spillover</title>
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       ALMATY (Reuters) - Afghanistan&apos;s Taliban may seek to establish a foothold in ex-Soviet Central Asia to recruit supporters and disrupt supplies for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, regional security officials said on Tuesday.
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      <title>Bangladesh begins trial of paramilitary mutineers</title>
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       DHAKA (Reuters) - The first group from around 3,500 Bangladesh paramilitary troops charged with mutiny went on trial on Tuesday for their part in a bloody revolt earlier this year in which nearly 80 people were killed, including 57 army officers.
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      <title>Q&amp;A - Does Pakistan amnesty list pose threat to Zardari?</title>
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       REUTERS - Pakistan&apos;s government has published a list of people, including four cabinet ministers, who could face prosecution on corruption charges after a controversial amnesty lapses this week.
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      <title>China says Kashmir solution up to India and Pakistan</title>
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       BEIJING (Reuters) - India and Pakistan should solve the Kashmir dispute between themselves, China said on Tuesday, after All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Kashmir&apos;s main separatist alliance, said Beijing had a role to play in the long-running territorial feud.
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      <title>Sri Lanka detains asylum-seekers in high seas</title>
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       COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka&apos;s navy has detained at least 100 people trying to sail illegally to Australia, an official said on Tuesday, days after a boatload of asylum-seekers triggered a diplomatic standoff between Australia and Indonesia.
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      <title>Obama aims to reassure Singh on U.S.-India ties</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama hosts Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday for talks considered critical to showing Washington&apos;s commitment to New Delhi in a region where its rivals, China and Pakistan, are  U.S. priorities.
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      <title>Obama to meet advisers on Afghanistan</title>
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       WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama planned a ninth session with top advisers on Afghanistan on Monday as he neared a decision on whether to send troops and fought Republican charges that he is taking too long to make up his mind.
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      <title>NATO plans Afghan troops meeting on Dec. 7</title>
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       BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO will hold a meeting on Dec. 7 to raise forces for Afghanistan, in the expectation that President Barack Obama will have laid out his plans for U.S. troop levels by then, alliance officials said on Monday.
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      <title>Pakistani forces attack Taliban in NW, kill 22</title>
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       HANGU, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani security forces, backed by tanks and artillery, attacked Taliban positions in the northwest of the country, killing 22 militants, a senior police official on Monday.
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