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Vietnamese forestry officials seized hundreds of pounds of illegal wildlife from restaurants in a popular tourist province this week, in what was one of the country’s largest such enforcement actions.
Illegal meat from from pangolins, mouse deer,...
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Police in Central Russia have detained eight people suspected of leading an attack on a rock festival. They say the brawl could have started after a local cafe owner...
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Two men who work for the U.S. Embassy in Paris underwent medical tests after handling a suspicious letter Friday, the embassy said, and Paris police said it appeared...
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Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade...
made popular Jul 30 2010
Militants flew an al-Qaida flag over a Baghdad neighborhood Thursday after killing 16 security officials and burning some of their bodies in a brazen afternoon attack...
made popular Jul 30 2010
South African wildlife authorities say poachers killed 152 endangered rhinoceros in the country so far this year, about 20 more than the number killed in the whole of...
made popular Jul 29 2010
Maybe he should have just told the happy couple to say, “Cheese?”
A wedding photographer in Sicily was accidentally killed when he asked the prospective...
made popular Jul 29 2010
Venezuela and Colombia are the original odd-couple of Hemispheric diplomacy. With the former run by a rambunctious socialist autocrat and the latter by a U.S.-aligned...
made popular Jul 27 2010
Here’s a little mystery for Globe and Mail readers to ponder.
Did the Conservative government of Canada – the same government that tried so hard a year ago to...
made popular Jul 22 2010
Brazilian scientists have begun an investigation after hundreds of dead penguins and other sea animals washed up on Sao Paolo state beaches.
A total of 530 penguins,...
made popular Jul 22 2010
At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in...
made popular Jul 20 2010
The enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the “Mona Lisa.” French researchers studied seven of the...
made popular Jul 19 2010
Thousands of demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage have gathered outside Argentina’s congress ahead of a key vote by lawmakers.
Supporters of the measure...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Four suspected al-Qaida gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters of Yemen’s second largest city Saturday and freed several detainees in the...
made popular Jun 21 2010
Four decapitated heads were found in prominent areas of the capital Thursday in what police said were likely revenge killings in response to a crackdown on organized...
made popular Jun 12 2010
Chile flew Joran Van der Sloot to its far north and handed him over to Peruvian police at the border, said Douglas Ramirez, a police official in the northern town of...
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Iran’s official news agency reports assailants blasted open a prison wall with rocket propelled grenades in western Iran, allowing two convicted murderers to...
made popular Apr 12 2010
Indonesian authorities say they have no reports of casualties following a major 7.7-magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Sumatra.
The quake struck the Simeulue...
made popular Apr 7 2010
A strong aftershock to Chile’s deadly earthquake provoked a brief panic in the city of Concepcion, but no tsunami warning was issued and no injuries or damage...
made popular Mar 4 2010
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Israel’s air force on Sunday introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and could fly as far as the Persian Gulf,...
made popular Feb 24 2010
Shocker! Only few weeks ago Obama and his administration issued a note for Chinese counterpart saying that China should stop censorships as its against the democracy...
made popular Feb 6 2010
Make sense to me because Before voting, electors must prove their identity and residential address by providing one piece of government-issued Voter’s PHOTO...
made popular Jan 25 2010
An injustice has been done. All this closed door trial and judgment of UAE court means one thing and one thing only to me. If you are a member of Royal family of UAE...
made popular Jan 12 2010
Today one amusing story caught my eye. The DNA India is reporting that in India a 70-year-old rapist will walk free from jail as the Supreme Court allowed his release a...
made popular Jan 12 2010
An Australian woman has been sentenced to life in prison for the starvation death of her 7-year-old daughter.
Justice Robert Allan Hulme called the girl’s death...
made popular Oct 3 2009
The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) has said that the new cabinet would be formed today and the first cabinet meeting would also be held later in...
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Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, on a US visit, has said that he also expected an India-like civil nuclear deal from the US, and added that Washington should not...
made popular Jul 31 2008
Journalists accompanying Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani are a furious lot as they were made to wait for 6-8 hours at the Andrews Air Force Base on Sunday...
made popular Jul 30 2008
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