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Page last updated at 21:35 GMT, Friday, 18 July 2008 22:35 UK

Ramraja Prasad Singh
'Agreement' over Nepal president
Former Maoist rebels look set to back a 73-year-old leader from southern Nepal in presidential elections due on Saturday.
Q&A: Nepal's future
Leader of Nepal's Maoists
Timeline: Nepal

Potatoes Bengal farmers in potato protest
Angry farmers in the Indian state of West Bengal dump potatoes crop on roads in protest against poor prices.

Afghan women wait for food rations distributed by an international aid group in Kabul (file image) Aid workers seized in Afghanistan
A French aid organisation says two of its workers have been abducted in central Afghanistan.

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