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Iraqi diplomats are clearing out the rubble of their bombed Foreign Ministry building while the nation grapples with the aftermath of an attack that has rocked the foundation of its fragile security and served notice that the country is still at...
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The global recession isn’t just making jobs scarce and tightening spending — it’s also turning more people into thieves. According to an annual survey...
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Venezuela and Colombia differences won’t reach extreme situations and both neighbors will end up finding a way out through dialogue, says Nelson Jobim, the...
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As Somalis struggle to survive the chaos that has overtaken their country, a network of companies that distribute money from the nation’s large diaspora has quietly...
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Latin America has become the battleground for competing Middle East powers, whose leaders are criss-crossing the continent seeking support from an increasingly...
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There seems, as with many problems in Iraq, no good answer for Camp Ashraf, as tensions here rise and American soldiers get closer to leaving: what to do with the few...
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A health care debate is going on in Japan, similar to one in the US. The Japanese lawmakers have made obese people illegal and have set a maximum waistline size for...
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Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests.
It is the latest move...
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Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up protesters...
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A landslide on a mountainside in northern Tanzania triggered by four days of heavy rain has killed at least 20 people, a senior local official said on...
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No one knows if one-year old Yunus will ever see his mother again. Like six million other Indonesians, she traveled far from home to find employment. She was hired by a...
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When US President Barack Obama visits China this weekend, he will encounter a rival that sees the financial crisis as more of an opportunity than a threat. America, on...
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Nigerian star Stephen Worgu, who plays in Sudan, has been convicted of drinking alcohol and has been sentenced to be flogged.
Worgu plays for the Sudanese giants Al...
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First came the Brezhnev Market. Then the Bush Market.
Now Afghans are beginning to call their notorious bazaar full of chow and supplies bought or stolen from the vast...
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Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China’s central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that police refuse to acknowledge...
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An ugly race row has left South Africa’s national power company leaderless and is threatening to turn the lights out in the country only nine months before it is...
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Gordon Brown’s poor spelling and awkward telephone manner may have won him sympathy this week, as the British public begins to feel sorry for a prime minister...
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
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Police say Mike Tyson has been detained on suspicion of battery after an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Life is slowly getting back to normal at the women’s campus of Islamabad’s International Islamic University.
The young women who study here chatter on the...
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Stability was rediscovered once again in AlTafayleh neighborhood in Eastern Amman after riots reportedly caused injuries among anti-riots police forces and cases of...
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Some worshippers stayed away from mosques Friday, offering their traditional prayers at home. Markets had fewer-than-usual shoppers. Parks were strangely uncrowded —...
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Martin Chulov reports from the Iraqi capital in the aftermath of at least six explosions in which government buildings appear to have been targeted.
Baghdad was rocked...
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Iraq dreams of what is called sustainable peace — a qualified condition that allows life to go on with an acceptable level of tumult. And so, with a measure of...
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A suicide truck bomber flattened a Shiite mosque Friday in northern Iraq, and roadside bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, as at least 51 people were killed and...
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The Iraqi government has announced that within the next 40 days all blast walls will be removed from Baghdad.
The building of the walls escalated in 2006 at the height...
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Lahore is Pakistan’s leading center of art and culture. Recently, on January 09 2009, two theaters in Lahore were targeted by what are thought to be fundamentalist...
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Oh, God not again, that means no one is listening to zillions of peace prayers round the world for new year.
Three bomb blasts in Bhangarh, Bhoonath and Bhirubari...
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Blasts, Hijacks, Kidnaps, Attacks.... numerous activities happen nearly everyday in some or the other part of the world...but the life is still so still for a common...
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The recent blasts in Delhi, the arrests, the encounters, SIMI, POTA...one thing that jumps out at me is somehow terrorism has become synonymous with muslims. Why so?...
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Until a few decades ago, one could walk freely anywhere, any given time and nobody would question. Things today sadly are very different; one could die even on a...
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At least twenty people have been injured in a serial blast that took plce at different areas of the city this evening. The first blast took place at 6.15 pm in and auto...
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The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Mumbai police is investigating a former Wipro engineer’s possible role in the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts, a senior police...
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With Sushma Swaraj’s “conspiracy theory” pointing out the recent terror attack in Bangalore and Ahmedabad as an attempt by Congress-led UPA government to divert...
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The serial blasts in Ahmedabad and Bangalore have evoked anger and strong condemnation of bloggers, who have given vent to their feelings online as the terrorist...
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Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi today condemned the serial blasts in Bangalore.
“This is a cowardly act and people who want to disturb the...
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Bangalore, July 25: Terror seems to have struck again, this time in Bangalore, initial reports suggest that four blasts have ripped through different parts of the IT...
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The following is a chronology of bomb blasts and terror attacks in India in the last 17 months.
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In 2005, there were four bomb blasts in London, later dubbed the 7/7 tragedy.
Three years later, there have been 7 bomb blasts in a day, again on 7/7 - but this time...
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A day after the twin blast rocked the Jama Masjid; the whole vicinity around the mosque is now once again full of life and action, along with hope that all the injured...
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