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Reuters - Flood-stricken Pakistan urgently needs more international aid to combat potential instability and extremism, influential U.S. Senator John Kerry said, as hunger and disease threaten millions of victims.

Reuters - Indian companies are mulling options that include leaving Research in Motion (RIM) for other smartphone makers as they face a threatened ban on BlackBerry services that could disrupt business.

Reuters - Nokia will host an email server in India from Nov. 5, D Shivakumar, vice president and managing director of Nokia India, said on Monday.

Reuters - Six of India's 28 states go to the polls in the next 12 months, narrowing the ruling Congress party-led government's window of opportunity to push through key economic reforms because of fears of a voter backlash.

Reuters - Will India's government succeed in passing key pro-market bills that have been in limbo for years? Not in the near future, say analysts.

Reuters - Officials meet on Monday to decide whether to ban some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, a day before the deadline runs out for the firm to give security agencies access to its secure data.

Reuters - Research in Motion faces an Aug. 31 deadline to give India access to its secure email and instant messaging services or the Indian government has said it will ban those services, hurting much of corporate India.

Reuters - Mad Men and Modern Family won the Emmy awards for the best TV drama and comedy series respectively at the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, while Jim Parsons and Edie Falco took home major acting trophies.

Reuters - The Obama administration is hosting Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Washington this week in an effort to restart direct Mideast peace negotiations after a 20-month hiatus.

Reuters - A review due on Monday can help restore public faith in the U.N. panel of climate scientists and its finding that global warming is man-made despite errors in a 2007 report, the U.N.'s environment chief said.

Reuters - Pakistan's cricket community reacted with shock to fresh allegations that some players took bribes for spot fixing in the current series against England.

Reuters - A month after torrential monsoon rains triggered Pakistan's worst natural disaster on record, flood waters are starting to recede -- but there are countless survivors at risk of death from hunger and disease.

Reuters - Pakistan team manager Yawar Saeed has confirmed that Scotland Yard police officials had questioned him and several players in connection with match fixing allegations during the Lord's test.

Reuters - A brilliant century by opener Tillakaratne Dilshan led Sri Lanka to a crushing 74-run win over India in the final of the Tri-series on Saturday.

Reuters - England swept the feeble Pakistan batting aside on Saturday to move within sight of a series victory after a spirited comeback in the fourth and final test at Lord's.

Reuters - Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began, as the United Nations warned that tens of thousands of children risked death from malnutrition.

Reuters - India's state-owned MMTC Ltd expects production from its upcoming gold refinery, being jointly built with Switzerland's PAMP S.A., to be delayed by three months as more time had to be spent on installing modern technology, a senior official of the joint venture said.

Reuters - Prosperity and higher savings are changing the way Indians perceive gold, driving them to invest in coins, bars and exchange-traded funds, a senior official in a prominent gold importing bank said on Saturday.

Reuters - China said on Saturday that military ties with India remained on track, despite a visa row that some reports said led to a freeze in defence contacts between the two big neighbours with sometimes testy relations.