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ADEN: Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed 14 soldiers in a rocket attack and suicide bombing Saturday that targeted intelligence headquarters in the main southern city of Aden, a security official said.
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Mine “bloodbath” shocks post-apartheid South Africa
MARIKANA, SOUTH AFRICA: Dozens of people were killed after South African police opened fire on hundreds of workers on a wildcat strike at a platinum mine, in the deadliest day of protest since apartheid.
Read More »Typhoon Kai-Tak causes havoc in China
BEIJING: Thousands of passengers were stranded at airports in China Friday with transport services being suspended as Typhoon Kai-Tak battered southern regions of the country.
Read More »‘Tumour’ of Israel will soon be destroyed: Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN: Israel is a "cancerous tumour" that will soon be finished off, the Iranian President, Mr Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday told demonstrators holding an annual protest against the existence of the Jewish state.
Read More »UN ends observer mission in Syria, to set up liaison office
UNITED NATIONS: Syria’s government and rebels have “chosen the path of war”, a UN peacekeeping chief, Mr Ban Ki-moon said as the world body ended its doomed monitoring mission to Damascus and deadlock persists among world powers over how to contain the spreading conflict.
Read More »HC rejects Kanda’s anticipatory bail
NEW DELHI: Absconding ex-Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda's anticipatory bail plea in the Geetika Sharma suicide case was today dismissed by the Delhi High Court on the ground that it has not been filed by the person who is apprehending arrest.
Read More »Ex-senior CWC official sent to 4 years jail in corruption case
NEW DELHI: A former official of the Central Water Commission (CWC), J P Sharma has been sentenced to four years in jail by a Delhi court for illegally getting issued official cheques in the name of his family members.
Read More »Israel wraps up national SMS missile alert test
JERUSALEM: Israel on Thursday wound up nationwide testing of an SMS warning system against missile attack, sending texts to mobile phones in Jerusalem and other parts of the country, a military spokeswoman said.
Read More »Suu Kyi’s silence on Rohingya Muslims’ violence draws rare criticism
BANGKOK: She is known as the voice of Myanmar’s downtrodden but there is one oppressed group that Ms Aung San Suu Kyi does not want to discuss.
Read More »Fukushima ‘caused mutant butterflies’
TOKYO: Researchers say radiation from the leaking Fukushima nuclear plant following last year’s tsunami caused mutations in some butterflies and damaged the local environment though humans seem relatively unaffected.
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