New Delhi: Finance Minister P. Chidamadarm was promptly given Home Ministery, when Patil resigned Sunday. Some analysts think this should boost investors' confidence in the stock markets."Patil sent his...
Yet another attempt to assassinate? A very unsafe world for today's politicians."(CNN) -- Shots were fired Sunday at a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland, but the motorcade was not hit and there...
"KUALA LUMPUR: Angkasawan Datuk Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor met with Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry officials Monday to defend himself against allegations that he had earned RM1.2mil from lecture fees. It...
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"HALABJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Inside an Iraqi clinic close to where Saddam Hussein's henchmen killed thousands of Kurds with poison gas, Azima Qadar waits for a check up of her artificial limb. Her right leg was...
" Who's policing local elections? No one, it seems Daphne Bramham, Vancouver SunPublished: Saturday, November 15, 2008 Imagine if municipalities decided that police would no longer enforce speed limits and instead, it would be up to other drivers to finger the...
We have seen it before, one environmental solution leads to another problem. A chemical used in British Columbia to try and end the pine-beetles wrath has been discontinued and now testing for arsenic (a known cancer...
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"LONDON: Thousands of Islamist militants in the UK are actively supporting jihadist activities at home and abroad, according to a leaked Government document.The secret report, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, states that Britain will remain "a high-priority target" for...
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Ontario must do a better job of monitoring the "hazard distance" between volatile fuel depots and residential areas, says a report released today, after a massive propane explosion in Toronto forced 12,000 people...
The Sri Lankan forces have intensified their campaign against rebel LTTE in last months. The government troops have made dramatic progress on the northern fronts, seizing a series of rebel bases and chunks of land,...
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There is bad news coming from Indonesia. Twenty five workers working in a sand mine have been trapped and lost their life. The incident happened on Thursday afternoon after a sand mine collapsed in Indonesia. " Twenty five workers were feared dead after a sand...
SUDAN'S foreign ministry have revealed that five of the Chinese oil workers held hostage in Sudan have been killed. Two escaped, wounded, and the other two of the nine were still in kidnappers' hands. The group were kidnapped from the Kardofan oilfield in central...
Strong rain left 58 dead and 20.000 without shelter in Yemen. " Rain and flooding in Yemen has killed 58 people and left an estimated 20,000 without basic shelter, a local newspaper reported Saturday. Men try to reach a vehicle carrying tourists...
2 convicted murderers were beheaded by the sword on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia. One of the accused Omar Bin Abid Wakdani beated his wife to death following a family argument. 2nd execution was carried out in Qurait, in the northeast of the kingdom, where Fawzi bin Abd...
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Sri Lankan army has intensified their attacks on the rebel Tamil tigers first time seems to having an edge in war against tamil tigers. Tamil tigers have been fighting their 25-year campaign for a separate homeland for the island's ethnic minority Tamils, who have suffered...
Brazil has free AIDS treatment and strong educational programs against the spread of the diseases. Brazil was once forecasted with the possibility of having African indexes of AIDS contamination, instead the...