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Attacks in Baghdad and a city in northern Iraq killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens more on Thursday, the worst violence since Iraq celebrated the withdrawal of American troops from cities and towns last month.
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African media leaders ended their meeting in Lagos yesterday with a call on owners and operators of media organisations to embrace the digital revolution for seamless...
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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The reigning Miss England has relinquished her crown after being accused of a fight in a bar.
Pageant organizers say Rachel Christie has also withdrawn from next...
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SOMALI pirates have threatened to kill three crew members taken hostage from a Spanish fishing vessel if two suspected pirates being held in Spain are not freed, the...
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A RUSSIAN military plane crashed into the sea during a training exercise in Russia’s Far East region, leaving all eleven crew members missing and presumed dead,...
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Thousands...
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A SOUTH Korean woman has passed a written exam for a driver’s licence after 950 attempts.
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Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...
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The UN’s nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the...
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I vividly recall the car journeys I would take as a teenager from Frankfurt to Berlin. In those days, the trip to the isolated city of West Berlin, which was located in...
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There was apparently not quite as much fun and games being played as expected by organizers at last year’s Beijing Olympics with news breaking that a stash of...
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When the U.S. last week finally brokered a deal between ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the man who replaced him following the June 28 coup, de facto...
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The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news. But Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s designation...
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While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
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Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
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It is unclear from a story, whether this cabbie was this time a next “Indian student” victim of desperately seeking a place for morning sex-session, but attitude of...
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Sir, I represent the self employed urban middle class from services sector. I Have spent the 50 odd years of my existence in this country. Now when my descent has...
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The U.S. media will not notice and the U.S. government does not care - nor, in the case of the latter, should it. But Saudi Arabia - which is often outrageously...
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The annual pilgrimage to Mecca recently took place. Muslims are required - as part of the Five Pillars - to do the Hajj, as it is known, once in their life if health...
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Targeted killing in Baluchistan continues as a Professor of the University of Balochistan was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta on Thursday, November 05, 2009. ...
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IAF fighter jets recently conducted a drill above the Strait of Gibraltar in preparation for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, L’Express...
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A Singaporean is among those taken hostage during coordinated attacks across India’s commercial capital of Mumbai, the foreign ministry said Thursday.“The...
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Both the White House and President-elect Barack Obama condemned today’s series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai, India, the first major terrorist incident since...
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President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani have “strongly” deplored the attacks in India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 82...
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Pakistan’s government has pledged to take targeted action against militants, a day after a suicide bomb killed 53 people in the capital, Islamabad.Interior...
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Tragedy struck Mexico, September 15,2008 when drug cartels crossed a sacred line. On that date, in Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, Mexico, two grenades were tossed...
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Peace guys, peace, I need absolute silence to concentrate, concentrate to write my heart out. My heart has come out for the first time for my nation, simply because...
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Four bomb blasts occurred in Delhi, in Greater Kailash , Connaught Place, and Karol Bagh. Current reports say that more than 8 people killed and dozens have been...
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Attacks on Army Munitions Factory Leave at Least 60 Dead, 100 Injured
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A strong explosion sounded at one of beaches of the town of Loo on the outskirts of the resort city of Sochi, Russia’s Black Sea Coast. The explosion killed two...
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A bomb ripped through a bus carrying civilians and members of the Lebanese military during Wednesday morning rush hour in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 18...
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With the coming of the Independence Day celebration, Assam state security is beefing up with full gear to maintain the Peace in the state and...
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Police found ten unexploded bombs in Surat, one of the world’s biggest diamond-polishing centres, on Tuesday, three days after a series of bombs in the same state...
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Yet again terrorist have struck a target so easily.
Yet again so many innocent lives have been lost.
Yet again our intelligence agencies are being blamed for...
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Police officers and a firefighter stand guard at the Justice Palace after a bomb exploded in one of its gardens in Asuncion, Wednesday, April 29, 2009. According to officials no casualties were reported.
