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Former Afghan President Rabbani killed
Kabul: Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan President who headed a government peace council set up to facilitate contacts with Taliban insurgents, was assassinated by a suicide bomber concealing...
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Typhoon strikes Manila; kills 16
Manila: A powerful typhoon struck the Philippines yesterday, killing at least 16 people and sending huge waves, as high as palm trees, crashing over seawalls. Most deaths occurred in metropolitan...
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“India pillar of stability in Indian ocean region”
Washington: Noting that Washington sees New Delhi as a pillar of stability and prosperity in the Indian Ocean and beyond, a top American official on yesterday said the Obama administration visualizes...
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Dalai Lama set to get ‘Mahatma Gandhi peace prize’
Johannesburg: The Dalai Lama is set to receive the ‘Mahatma Gandhi peace prize’ from the Indian leader’s granddaughter, Ela Gandhi. The South African government has been requested to grant a visa to...
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Jackson’s doctor gets four-year jail term
Los Angeles: Late pop star Michael Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison on a charge of ‘involuntary manslaughter’. Before announcing the sentence,...
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Barack Obama marks end of Iraq war
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday marked the end of Iraq war with a visit to troops at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Xinhua reported. He said the final work for the US military to...
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US stops $700 million aid to Pakistan
Washington: The US House of Representatives has passed a huge $662 billion defence bill that freezes $700 million for Pakistan until the Congress is provided a report on how Islamabad is tackling the...
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Hundreds missing as migrants’ boat sinks off Indonesia
Some 300 people went missing after an overcrowded boat carrying illegal migrants, most of them from the Middle East, sank off Indonesia’s Java Island on Saturday, the ABC broadcaster said quoting a...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il passes away
Pyongyang: Kim Jong-il, the 69-year-old supreme leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, died Saturday during a train journey. His youngest son was made the ‘great successor’, the country’s official KCNA...
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Two quakes rock Christchurch
Wellington: Two earthquakes measuring 5.8 and 6.1 respectively on the Richter scale shook New Zealand’s South Island city of Christchurch on Friday, authorities said. The New Zealand government...
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