Businessman, banker work to break J-K gridlock
An investment banker from New York and a Connecticut-based furniture tycoon are among the key figures in a Washington-sponsored effort to break the impasse in Kashmir and initiate what could be a lengthy peace process.



`Risk of Torture' Stops Sikh `Terrorists' Deportation to India
Two Sikh men who entered Britain illegally and were arrested in 1998 for conspiring to commit acts of terrorism in India have won the right to live in Britain.



10 yrs hence, Saddam still haunts the West
Ten years after he sent his army to invade neighbouring Kuwait, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is still in power, having defied every effort by the United States, domestic opponents and some of his neighbours to unseat him.



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