India should stop the West: Sri Lankan daily
March 24th, 2012 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
Colombo, March 24 (IANS) A leading Sri Lankan daily Saturday urged India to stop the West from enforcing its "hidden agenda", after a US resolution on rights abuses in the ... Read more...
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WWII Assam cemetery being dug for Japanese troops’ remains
January 19th, 2012 - 5:40 pm ICT by IANS
Guwahati, Jan 19 (IANS) Labourers in Assam continued digging a World War II cemetery for the second straight day Thursday to look for remains of 11 Japanese soldiers.A Commonwealth War ... Read more...
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Serbians find Jolie’s war film ‘racist’
December 14th, 2011 - 5:26 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 14 (IANS) Actress Angelina Jolie's new movie "In The Country Of Blood And Honey" has been branded as being racist.Serbians from Bosnia-Herzogovina are furious that the film ... Read more...
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Relatives Iraqi war victims to raise judicial case against former President Bush
June 17th, 2011 - 10:42 am ICT by BNO News
ANBAR, IRAQ (BNO NEWS) -- Relatives of the victims of the U.S. military operations in west Iraq announced on Thursday that they intend to initiate a judicial case against former U.S. President ... Read more...
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Iraq war victims’ relatives shout, “it’s too late” as Blair regrets loss of lives
January 22nd, 2011 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 22 (ANI): Relatives of people who lost their lives in the Iraq war expressed anger at former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the Chilcot Inquiry proceedings as he regretted ... Read more...
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Blair expresses regret for Iraq war victims
January 22nd, 2011 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
London, Jan 21 (IANS) Britain's former prime minister Tony Blair Friday expressed his regret for the death of soldiers and civilians in Iraq during the US-led invasion of that country.Blair expressed his ... Read more...
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Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton- The Past Is Buried
December 17th, 2010 - 9:48 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
Angelina Jolie might have settled down with Brad Pitt and her six children but that does not mean that that her ex- husband Billy Bob Thornton does not feature anywhere ... Read more...
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Jolie wants to meet Bosnian victims to clear up misunderstanding
October 17th, 2010 - 2:46 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, Oct 17 (ANI): After Bosnia revoked her licence to film her directorial debut this week, Angelina Jolie said that she wants to meet a group of war victims to clear ... Read more...
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Iraqi nationals learn to make ‘Jaipur Foot’
September 23rd, 2010 - 7:36 pm ICT by ANI
By Lokendra SinghJaipur, Sep. 23 (ANI): A group of four Iraqi nationals learnt the art of making the 'Jaipur Foot', a rubber-based prosthetic leg, at a training camp organized here, in order ... Read more...
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Garmi Ka Dushman Sharbat, Talwaar Soap - some of the hit consumer products in Pakistan!
May 25th, 2010 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad, May 25 (ANI): Kalashnikov Surf, Pistol Soap and Talwaar Soap - these are just some of the quirky names of consumer goods being sold to the rich and poor alike in ... Read more...
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Canadian Tamils in black mourn victims of ‘war crimes’
May 19th, 2010 - 11:47 am ICT by IANS
Toronto, May 19 (IANS) In their biggest gathering in Canada after the end of the ethnic war in Sri Lanka last year, thousands of Tamils held a memorial service for war victims ... Read more...
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Blair to depose at Britain’s Iraq war inquiry next week
January 18th, 2010 - 10:57 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 18 (DPA) Former British prime minister Tony Blair will give evidence to Britain's Iraq inquiry on January 29 in a full-day session expected to be attended by relatives of war ... Read more...
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El Salvador president apologises to civil war victims
January 18th, 2010 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
San Salvador, Jan 18 (IANS/EFE) Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes made a formal apology to the victims of the 1980-1992 civil war and acknowledged that state security forces "committed serious human rights violations ... Read more...
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Tamil film produced in 12 days creates world record
January 1st, 2010 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANI
Chennai, Jan 01 (ANI) : A Tamil feature film got itself registered in the Guinness Book of World Records after it was completed in less than 12 days.Shooting and post-production of the ... Read more...
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Iraqi shoe-thrower targeted with shoe (Lead)
December 2nd, 2009 - 9:55 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 2 (IANS) The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US president George Bush to spark off a global trend was Tuesday given a taste of his own medicine. ... Read more...
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Iraqi shoe-thrower pelted with shoe
December 2nd, 2009 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 2 (IANS) The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former US president George Bush to spark off a global trend was given a taste of his own medicine Tuesday.
Muntazer ... Read more...
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Sri Lanka Govt. imposes tax on charities working for civil war victims
July 6th, 2009 - 1:30 pm ICT by ANI
Colombo, July 6 (ANI): The Sri Lankan Government has imposed a 0.9 per cent tax on all funding for aid groups, hampering their efforts to help victims of Sri Lanka's recent civil ... Read more...
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UN seeks $543 mn to assist Pakistan’s war victims
May 29th, 2009 - 3:01 am ICT by IANS
New York, May 29 (DPA) The UN is seeking $543 million to assist the hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis displaced in the fighting between security forces and the Taliban.
The top UN ... Read more...
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Lankan High Commissioner lauds India’s efforts in rehabilitating war victims
May 21st, 2009 - 4:37 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 21 (ANI): Sri Lanka's High Commissioner in New Delhi, C. R. Jaisinghe, on Thursday appreciated India's assistance in rehabilitation people displaced by the war in the island nation."We ... Read more...
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India to send emergency medical unit for Sri Lanka’s war victims
February 27th, 2009 - 12:31 am ICT by IANS
Colombo, Feb 26 (IANS) Reiterating New Delhi's concern for thousands of civilians caught in the fighting between the military and Tamil Tiger rebels, visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon Thursday said a ... Read more...
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Hamas to pay compensation to war victims
January 23rd, 2009 - 3:12 am ICT by IANS
Gaza City, Jan 23 (DPA) The radical Islamic organisation Hamas said Thursday it would begin Sunday making cash payments to victims of the recent Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip.Taher al ... Read more...
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Ravi Shankar visits Iraq to broker peace between Shias and Sunnis
December 23rd, 2008 - 3:25 pm ICT by ANI
By K.G Vasuki
Baghdad (Iraq), Dec 23 (ANI): Indian spiritual guru Sri Ravi Shankar is on a visit to Iraq to bring closer the Shia and Sunni communities who have been fighting ... Read more...
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Cold War victims, Chagos Islanders hope to return home (Special)
July 2nd, 2008 - 10:31 am ICT by IANS
By Shubha Singh
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) Will the dwindling group of Chagos Islanders, evicted from their island paradise in the Indian Ocean, finally win the right to return home? Victims of ... Read more...
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