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January 1, 2011 9:14 AM

Sunni Muslims in Pak strike over blasphemy laws

A 24-hour strike organised by Sunni Muslim clerics is taking place across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to blasphemy laws. Rallies were staged in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta after Friday prayers. The Government has distanced itself from a Bill to change the law, wh...

January 1, 2011 9:14 AM

Sunni Muslims in Pak strike over blasphemy laws

A 24-hour strike organised by Sunni Muslim clerics is taking place across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to blasphemy laws. Rallies were staged in Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta after Friday prayers. The Government has distanced itself from a Bill to change the law, wh...

January 1, 2011 9:13 AM

N Korea media calls for better ties with S Korea

North Korea has called for better relations with the South in a series of New Year editorials in state media. Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula after the North shelled a border island killing four. The New Year editorials in three North Korean newspapers called for confrontation between the ...

January 1, 2011 9:13 AM

N Korea media calls for better ties with S Korea

North Korea has called for better relations with the South in a series of New Year editorials in state media. Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula after the North shelled a border island killing four. The New Year editorials in three North Korean newspapers called for confrontation between the ...

January 1, 2011 9:13 AM

N Korea media calls for better ties with S Korea

North Korea has called for better relations with the South in a series of New Year editorials in state media. Tensions are high on the Korean peninsula after the North shelled a border island killing four. The New Year editorials in three North Korean newspapers called for confrontation between the ...

January 1, 2011 9:12 AM

Blasts kill many in Egypt, Nigeria

Seven people have been killed and 24 injured in a large explosion outside a Christian church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria while at least 30 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market near a military barracks in Abuja in Nigeria on New Year's Eve.Egypt's interior min...

January 1, 2011 9:12 AM

Blasts kill many in Egypt, Nigeria

Seven people have been killed and 24 injured in a large explosion outside a Christian church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria while at least 30 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market near a military barracks in Abuja in Nigeria on New Year's Eve.Egypt's interior min...

January 1, 2011 9:12 AM

Blasts kill many in Egypt, Nigeria

Seven people have been killed and 24 injured in a large explosion outside a Christian church in Egypt's northern city of Alexandria while at least 30 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market near a military barracks in Abuja in Nigeria on New Year's Eve.Egypt's interior min...

December 31, 2010 9:14 PM

Brazil not to extradite Italian militant

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has decided not to extradite an Italian former left-wing militant who has been a fugitive for three decades. Cesare Battisti was convicted in absentia of murdering four people in Italy in the 1970s during a series of left-wing kidnappings and killing...

December 31, 2010 9:14 PM

Brazil not to extradite Italian militant

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has decided not to extradite an Italian former left-wing militant who has been a fugitive for three decades. Cesare Battisti was convicted in absentia of murdering four people in Italy in the 1970s during a series of left-wing kidnappings and killing...

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