Over 50 rebels killed in Blue Nile state: Sudanese army
April 22nd, 2012 - 11:13 pm ICT by IANS
Khartoum, April 22 (IANS) The Sudanese army Sunday claimed to have killed over 50 cadres and arrested 17 others from the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-Northern Sector (SPLM-N) and ... Read more...
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Oil pipeline blown up in Syria
April 22nd, 2012 - 6:58 am ICT by IANS
Damascus, April 22 (IANS) An armed group blasted an oil pipeline in Syria's Deir al-Zour province, the state-run SANA news agency reported.The attack was carried out Saturday on the pipeline ... Read more...
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Kazakh journalist stabbed
April 21st, 2012 - 8:06 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A journalist who criticised the Kazakh authorities over their bloody handling of riots in a mining town in December last year was found beaten and ... Read more...
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PTI employees on 30-hour strike (Lead)
April 20th, 2012 - 10:50 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Employees of the Press Trust of India (PTI), the largest news agency in the country, went on a 30-hour countrywide strike Friday demanding implementation of ... Read more...
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Journalist killed in Pakistan
April 20th, 2012 - 2:10 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 20 (IANS) A senior journalist of Pakistan's Dawn newspaper was found murdered in a house in Karachi Thursday, police said.Murtaza Razvi's body was found in an apartment in ... Read more...
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Salman Bashir is new Pakistani envoy to India
April 14th, 2012 - 7:07 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 14 (IANS) Pakistan Saturday formally announced the appointment of Salman Bashir as its new high commissioner to India.Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Ahmed Khan said the government has appointed ... Read more...
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Blast hits Russia-bound Azerbaijan pipeline
April 14th, 2012 - 8:37 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A powerful blast at around Friday midnight hit an about 240-km long natural gas pipeline connecting Azerbaijan and Russia.The pipeline runs along the Caspian Sea ... Read more...
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Six dead, 30 hurt in Pakistan accident
April 13th, 2012 - 11:38 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 13 (IANS) At least six people were killed and 30 injured Friday when a bus they were travelling in fell into a ravine in Pakistan, a media report ... Read more...
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Pakistani dies of heart attack on plane
April 13th, 2012 - 12:17 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) A 62-year-old Pakistani suffered a cardiac arrest and died on a London-bound plane.The passenger, Mohammad Sadiq, was travelling on a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, Online ... Read more...
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Pakistanis deported from Greece, Oman
April 12th, 2012 - 7:51 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) A group of 97 Pakistani migrants who were detained in Oman for illegally entering the country were deported Thursday. Another 67 Pakistanis were deported from ... Read more...
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Pakistan releases 26 Indian fishermen
April 12th, 2012 - 6:22 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) Pakistan Thursday released 26 Indian fishermen, including a cancer patient, from a jail in Karachi.After their release from Malir Jail, the fishermen said the authorities treated ... Read more...
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North Korea’s Kim Jong Un gets new party post
April 12th, 2012 - 4:35 am ICT by IANS
Pyongyang, April 12 (IANS) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been appointed chairman of the central military commission of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).The appointment was made ... Read more...
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Iran busts terror cell linked to Israel
April 10th, 2012 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 10 (IANS) Iran Tuesday said it has busted a terrorist cell linked to Israel and arrested a number of its members.The intelligence ministry said "one of the terror ... Read more...
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Pakistan hails Indian bail to doctor
April 9th, 2012 - 5:59 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) Pakistan Monday welcomed the Indian Supreme Court decision to grant bail to Pakistani doctor Mohammad Khalil Chisty, who is undergoing life imprisonment in a jail ... Read more...
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Siachen avalanche: Pakistan welcomes India’s offer
April 9th, 2012 - 5:49 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 9 (IANS) Pakistan Monday appreciated India's offer for assistance in the operation to rescue over a hundred soldiers trapped in an avalanche in Siachen.The Pakistani Foreign Office ... Read more...
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Man kills four in Hungary sword attack
April 7th, 2012 - 11:04 am ICT by IANS
Budapest, April 7 (IANS) A 24-year-old man in Hungary killed four people with a sword and injured three others after a family argument, CNN reported.The killer in Kulcs town, south ... Read more...
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Seven killed in twin Syrian blasts
April 5th, 2012 - 12:53 am ICT by IANS
Damascus, April 4 (IANS) Twin blasts ripped through two residential areas in the Syrian capital of Damascus Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring many others, media reports said.The first explosion ... Read more...
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Landlord shoots at wife, son of MCD poll nominee
April 5th, 2012 - 12:47 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 4 (IANS) The wife and son of an independent candidate contesting the April 15 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections were shot at and injured here Wednesday ... Read more...
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Iran hopes for results from n-talks
April 4th, 2012 - 9:14 pm ICT by IANS
Tehran, April 4 (IANS) Iran has expressed hope of results emerging from the next round of nuclear talks between the country and the world powers, Mehr news agency reported."I think ... Read more...
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Pakistani executed for drug trafficking
April 4th, 2012 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
Riyadh, April 4 (IANS/AKI) A Pakistani man has been executed in Saudi Arabia after being found guilty of drug trafficking.Salim Shah Sayed Shah was decapitated, according to state news agency ... Read more...
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Brazil to launch satellite for military purposes
April 4th, 2012 - 1:01 pm ICT by IANS
Rio de Janeiro, April 4 (IANS/EFE) Brazil will launch a satellite for military purposes and to expand broadband Internet service throughout the country, Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo Silva said, adding ... Read more...
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3,000 Sikhs to visit Pakistan on Baisakhi
April 4th, 2012 - 9:42 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 4 (IANS) Around 3,000 Sikh devotees from India will visit Nankana Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Nanak which is now in Pakistan, to celebrate Baisakhi festival.Sikh devotees would ... Read more...
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Land mine removers abducted in Afghanistan
April 3rd, 2012 - 4:38 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Three people who cleared land mines and worked for a British-American humanitarian group have been abducted in Afghanistan, Kabul-based Bahtar news agency reported.The men from ... Read more...
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Pakistan to protect Hindu temples
April 1st, 2012 - 5:08 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, April 1 (IANS) Pakistan is committed to protecting shrines belonging to minorities, a minister said Sunday, following a protest by Hindus over illegal occupation of a temple in Punjab.Minister-in-charge ... Read more...
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US to release five Taliban from Guantanamo?
April 1st, 2012 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, April 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The US was ready to release five Taliban leaders from the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay under certain conditions, an Afghan official has said.Mohammad ... Read more...
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Three dead in Suez Canal blast
March 27th, 2012 - 8:00 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, March 27 (IANS) Three people died and nine others injured when a diesel tank of a tugboat exploded in Egypt's Suez Canal, the official media reported Monday.The vessel belongs ... Read more...
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Iran willing to work with Russia on more power plants
March 26th, 2012 - 12:38 am ICT by IANS
Tehran, March 25 (IANS) Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) head Fereidoon Abbasi said his country is willing to work with Russia on more nuclear power plants, reports said Sunday."Since ... Read more...
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Pakistan sets date with Saudi dates
March 25th, 2012 - 10:18 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 25 (IANS) Thousands of boxes of dates gifted by Saudi Arabia to Pakistan are set to be distributed in various provinces of the country.The Saudi government had ... Read more...
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Pakistan opposition to resist NATO supply restoration
March 25th, 2012 - 6:22 am ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 25 (IANS) Pakistani opposition parties have vowed to block every move by the government to restore NATO supplies to Afghanistan.Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly ... Read more...
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Gas pipeline blown up in Syria
March 24th, 2012 - 11:59 pm ICT by IANS
Damascus, March 24 (IANS) A gas pipeline was blasted in a Syrian province Saturday, leading to leakage of about 700,000 cubic metres, reports said."An armed terrorist group" blasted a gas ... Read more...
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Egypt foils planned attack in Suez Canal
March 22nd, 2012 - 5:05 am ICT by IANS
Cairo, March 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egypt's National Security Service has foiled a planned attack against a foreign vessel in the Suez Canal, the MENA news agency reported.Officers detained two suspects ... Read more...
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Pakistani lawyers to visit India
March 19th, 2012 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) As many as 200 Pakistani lawyers will be visiting India to interact with lawyers in Delhi and Chandigarh, Online news agency reported Monday.The delegation of the ... Read more...
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South African police to communicate better with public
March 19th, 2012 - 10:35 am ICT by IANS
Pretoria, March 19 (IANS) Police in South Africa will take steps to improve communication with the public to ensure communities are updated on the work they are doing, state-run news ... Read more...
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Three killed in Syrian car blast
March 19th, 2012 - 2:48 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, March 19 (IANS) At least three people were feared to have been killed in Syria's largest city during a car bomb blast Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.According to state news ... Read more...
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Belarus executes Minsk subway bombers
March 18th, 2012 - 2:25 pm ICT by IANS
Minsk, March 18 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Belarus has executed two men convicted for a deadly subway bombing in the capital Minsk last year, Belarusian news agency Belta reported.The mother of one ... Read more...
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