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Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006, is still alive.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani and Indian reports obtained by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/30\/world\/asia\/30mumbai.html?ref=global-home\"> <em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a> show that ten months after terrorists killed 163 people in Mumbai, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/news\/pakistan\/18-pakistan-probe-indicts-let-for-mumbai-attacks-nyt-am-01\">Lashkar-e-Taiba<\/a>, the Pakistani militant organization behind the attacks, is still intact and determined to strike India again.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=107494&amp;sectionid=351020101\">Iran, the U.S.<\/a> and five other world powers begin tomorrow in Geneva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people are feared dead and several villages are destroyed when a tsunami hits the islands of Samoa and American Samoa. 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