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Pakistani PhD students, pursuing their PhD studies in Turkey, are facing trouble due to stoppage of stipends from Pakistan’s Higher Education Commission (HEC). In a letter to the esteemed English daily The News (June 22, 2009), 15 Pakistani students...
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Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the...
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Two Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and three seriously wounded in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force says.
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Mexican authorities have freed 107 indigenous people who officials say were being held as slave laborers in a Mexico City factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation...
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Perugia, Italy (CNN) — An Italian jury has found American student Amanda Knox and her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito guilty in the stabbing death of British...
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Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here’s the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his...
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Venezuelans and investors are concerned about small banks’ solvency following this week’s seizure of four banks run by a billionaire close to the government...
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Guinea’s military leader, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, has arrived in Morocco for medical treatment after being shot by an aide on Thursday, officials say.
He has...
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to arrive in Damascus on December 22, and according to the Egyptian report, while there he will present Syrian...
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Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has prompted anger with a reported R65m (£5.3m) expansion of his personal residence in one of the country’s poorest...
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A schoolgirl died following a cross country run in which she complained, ‘Oh God, I feel like I’m going to die’.
Rianna Wingett was taking part in a PE lesson...
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Matthew White, 22, said he was surfing for pornography two years ago on Limewire — a fire sharing application that allows users to trade music, movies, games and...
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Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the...
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MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said.
An army official who...
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A manhunt is under way for the newlywed husband of a woman who was found dead in the garage of their Cheshire home.
Michael Roberts has been missing since police found...
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The money ran out first. Then the food.
Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to...
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At least three people are reported to have been killed in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Officials initially said the blast, near a KFC restaurant,...
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At least 101 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm, 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow.
Officials said fireworks caused...
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Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh is currently tense as there are fears of widespread violence.
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The whole incident started on November 30th, 2009 when some...
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The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan has turned to the World Bank for funds and the latter has agreed to give a $100 million loan to the HEC in the near...
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