Reuters South Asia News Highlights 1200 GMT July 4

SEOUL - South Korean police said they had cracked a ring they suspect of supplying chemicals used in drug production to the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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PESHAWAR - Pakistani Taliban fighters have abducted two Pakistani journalists who entered their stronghold in a tribal region close to the Afghan border.

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QUETTA, Pakistan - A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded outside a bank in the Pakistani city of Quetta, capital of gas-rich Baluchistan province, killing a girl and wounding 10 people, police said.

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COLOMBO - Sri Lankan troops killed 32 Tamil Tigers in the island's far north while four soldiers died or are missing, the military said on Friday, as the government pursues its strategy to gradually retake the rebels' northern stronghold.

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COLOMBO - Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Sri Lanka's government to investigate and prosecute renegade former Tamil Tiger leader Karuna Amman for war crimes, after Britain failed to do so because of a lack of evidence.