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Drone strikes Pakistan may boycott Chicago summit

in National - Mon April 30, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan may boycott the upcoming Nato summit in Chicago and delay its decision to reopen Nato supply routes in retaliation for the latest US drone attack in N

TRULY this was the week Britain showed how generous it can

in International - Mon April 30, 2012

And we did it without any politicians preaching to us about a so-called "Big Society".

Since much-loved Claire Squires died tragically in the London Marathon,

Murder suspect \'claimed innocence\'

in International - Tue April 03, 2012

A lawyer said she has evidence the young man accused of killing seven people in attacks on French soldiers and a Jewish school claimed his innocence to police.

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Gunman who killed 7 in France is buried

in International - Fri March 30, 2012

TOULOUSE, France - The gunman who claimed responsibility for France"s worst terror attacks in years was buried Thursday in a Toulouse cemetery, ending a tortured deba

French nuclear physicist in terror trial

in International - Fri March 30, 2012

PARIS (AP) An Algerian-born former nuclear physicist accused of plotting with al-Qaida\'s north African arm to attack a French military base or economic interests we

Swiss bus crash kills 28, including 22 children

in International - Thu March 15, 2012

SIERRE, Switzerland - (AP) -- A tour bus carrying schoolchildren home from a class trip slammed head-on into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps, killing 22 students and six adu

No one expected a tsunami that big: Aussie expat on living

in International - Fri March 09, 2012

AUSTRALIAN expat professor John Morris lived through the 2011 Japan tsunami and has watched the Sendai region\'s efforts to recover.

After the tsunami - which c

In Iraq at least 55 killed in wave of attacks

in International - Fri February 24, 2012

Bombs and deadly shootings relentlessly pounded Iraqis on Thursday, killing at least 55 people and wounding more than 225 in a widespread wave of violence the government cal

Guns and Androids: Pakistan air force making \'iPads\'

in National - Mon February 20, 2012

"The original is the iPad, the copy is the PACPAD," said Mohammad Imran, who stocks the product at his small computer and cell phone shop in a mall in Rawal

New Afghan schoolbooks shun past history

in International - Wed February 08, 2012

KABUL: The Afghan government has published new textbooks for schoolchildren that shun the country\'s modern history of conflict in an effort to promote national unity, an of

From darkest India an enlightened leader

in International - Wed February 01, 2012

PATNA: There\'s an apocryphal story about Bihar, a sprawling state on the Gangetic plains of eastern India that for decades held the dubious honour of being the most violent

N.Korea builds personality cult of Kim in digital area

in International - Tue December 27, 2011

PYONGYANG: The Internet is virtually banned, there\'s no free press and listening to foreign radio is illegal -- if any country can build a Stalinist-style personality cult

Drug War Fighting Fear

in International - Thu December 08, 2011

CIUDAD MIER: Schoolchildren once again chatter and scamper across the town plaza where drug gang gunmen last year torched the police station and left the remains of a dismem

The Queen lays wreath at Australian War Memorial

in International - Tue October 25, 2011

Online: On the seventh day of her Australian tour, the Queen paid tribute to Australia\'s fallen soldiers.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh p

Western fast food, waistlines surge in India

in International - Mon October 10, 2011

NEW DELHI: Every lunchtime at a McDonald`s on the corner of one of central New Delhi`s biggest streets, queues of hungry young patrons, often four-wide and unruly, snake tow

Mandela s 93rd birthday celebrated

in International - Tue July 19, 2011

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Millions of South African schoolchildren sang happy birthday to Nelson Mandela as he turned 93 Monday, while politicians and ordinary citizens did chari

Leading activist held in Syrian roundup

in International - Tue May 03, 2011

AMMAN : Security forces on Monday rounded up hundreds of pro-democracy sympathisers, including prominent human rights campaigner Diana Jawabra for the second time during Syr

Syrian forces seal off Banias

in International - Tue April 12, 2011

AMMAN : Syrian security forces sealed off the coastal city of Banias following pro-democracy protests and killings by irregulars loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, w

Israel pounds Gaza, kills 3

in International - Fri April 08, 2011

NAHAL OZ (AFP) - Gaza activists on Thursday fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, critically injuring a teenager, prompting the army to pound the Strip, killi

Assad deploys army in Syrian port

in International - Mon March 28, 2011

AMMAN : President Bashar al-Assad, facing the gravest crisis in his 11-year rule, deployed the army for the first time in nearly two weeks of protests after 12 people were k

Syria protests spread, authorities pull back

in International - Tue March 22, 2011

DAMASCUS : Unrest spread in southern Syria on Monday with hundreds of people demonstrating against the government in the town of Jassem, activists said, but authorities did

21 dead, 25 injured in China road accidents

in International - Tue December 28, 2010

BEIJING  : At least 21 people were killed - including 14 schoolchildren - and 25 injured in two car accidents in China on Monday, one of which involved over 100 vehicle

Unicef considers dilemma of unexploded KP landmines

in National - Thu November 11, 2010

ISLAMABAD: The receding waters have brought the people of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa s flood-hit areas a lurking threat of unexploded ordnance and landmines.

 The floods

19 dead after Myanmar ferry capsizes

in International - Fri October 08, 2010

YANGON  : An overloaded ferry capsized in Myanmar s Ayeyarwaddy Delta, killing 19 people, most of them schoolchildren, a local official said Thursday.  The boat wa

19 killed in police post suicide attack

in National - Tue September 07, 2010

PESHAWAR  : At least 19 people including nine police cops and five schoolchildren were killed and 34 others injured on Monday morning in a terrorist attack on a police