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At a Glance
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Congress
HANOI: Nong Duc Manh was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee at the first plenary session of the party's ninth central committee, announced the Congress yesterday.
Blast
KFAR SABA, Israel: Two people were killed and several dozen injured yesterday morning when a suspected bomber blew up an explosives-packed belt at a bus stop in Kfar Saba, near the border with the West Bank, police said. The attack, the second deadly bomb blast near the town in less than a month, occurred the day after Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs met in a bid to quell the violence that has blazed through the region for almost seven months.
Climate issue
NEW YORK: Most countries want to push ahead with talks for a legally binding international treaty to combat global warming despite the opposition of the United States to the Kyoto Protocol, conference chairman Jan Pronk said here yesterday.
Missile panel
WASHINGTON: A panel from the US Defence Department has recommended that the Bush administration expand a planned National Missile Defence (NMD) programme to include sea-and space-based weapons, Pentagon spokesman Craig Quigley said on Saturday. The recommendation was made in a report by the panel headed by retired Air Force General James McCarthy on March 30 as part of a broad review by a number of groups of US defence programmes, Quigley said.
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