Highway crashes leave 13 dead in Bangladesh
Dhaka - At least 13 people, including members of a bridal party, were killed in highway accidents across Bangladesh at the weekend, media reports said Sunday. Seven of a 20-member wedding group travelling in a micro-bus died as the vehicle slewed fro...
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Eight die as residential building collapses in Pakistan
Karachi - At least eight people died and more than a dozen were injured on Sunday when a 4-storey residential building collapsed in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi. The building, located in Baldia Town, a locality where mostly lower middle c...
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G8 leaders presented with 1,000-dollar sake cups
Toyako, Japan - Group of Eight (G8) leaders attending a summit in Japan are receiving gifts of intricate lacquered sake cups engraved with their initials and with a retail value of 1,000 dollars each. The small wooden cups, measuring 8.2 centimetres ...
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G8 urged to raise Tibet issue with Chinese president
Toyako, Japan - Leaders of the world's major economies linked in the Group of Eight were urged Sunday to raise the issue of Tibet with Chinese state and party leader Hu Jintao at their summit in Japan. The latest dialogue between Chinese officials an...
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G8 states are breaking their pledges to fight hunger - Feature
Toyako, Japan - The rich G8 nations have failed to keep their pledges in the fight against world hunger. Worse: while the world food crisis increases the suffering in poor countries, the major industrial states at their summit in Toyako, in northern ...
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Rainstorms kill at least 14 in southern China
Beijing - Severe rainstorms have killed at least 14 people, left seven missing and destroyed hundreds of homes in southern and central China, state media said on Sunday. At least eight people died and two were missing in Enshi prefecture in Hubei pro...
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Islamic hardliners mark Red Mosque operation anniversary
Islamabad - Thousands of hardline Islamists on Sunday gathered in Pakistan's capital to commemorate the first anniversary of a military operation against the extremists in the Red Mosque. Dozens of religious leaders from across the country and more t...
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Thousands gather at fuel price protest in Malaysia - Update
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian opposition parties and non-governmental organizations on Sunday kicked off a massive public rally which saw more than 10,000 people gathering by noon to protest recent fuel price hikes, which they claim have greatly burdened ...
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Malaysian cops hunt for missing detective in political scandal
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian police on Sunday sought the assistance of international police in their hunt for a private detective who alleged that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak had sex with a murdered Mongolian woman, but retracted his statement just...
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Afghan, US military claim dozens of rebel casualties
Kabul - More than 20 Taliban militants were killed and injured during a clash and airstrike in eastern Kunar province while several other insurgents were also killed in a US-led coalition operation, officials said on Sunday. The Afghan Defense Minist...
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