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December 6, 2010 9:14 AM

Bhutto case: Court orders arrest of two Sr. police officers

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of two senior police officers accused of negligence in the killing of former PM Benazir Bhutto. She died in a 2007 gun and suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi.A special prosecutor says the officers - who include Rawalpindi's ex-pol...

December 6, 2010 9:14 AM

Bhutto case: Court orders arrest of two Sr. police officers

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has ordered the arrest of two senior police officers accused of negligence in the killing of former PM Benazir Bhutto. She died in a 2007 gun and suicide attack in the city of Rawalpindi.A special prosecutor says the officers - who include Rawalpindi's ex-pol...

December 5, 2010 8:59 PM

Fire killed 22 people in China

At least 22 people have been killed and one severely burnt in a spreading grassland fire in a mountainous Tibetan region in southwest China. Government officials said the fire trapped soldiers and local residents trying to put out the blaze. The wild fire broke out in Daofu County, Tibetan Autonomou...

December 5, 2010 8:59 PM

Fire killed 22 people in China

At least 22 people have been killed and one severely burnt in a spreading grassland fire in a mountainous Tibetan region in southwest China. Government officials said the fire trapped soldiers and local residents trying to put out the blaze. The wild fire broke out in Daofu County, Tibetan Autonomou...

December 5, 2010 6:08 PM

Iran to use domestically produced uranium for first time

Iran says it will start using domestically produced uranium for the first time today. Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the country has produced its first batch of uranium yellowcake, the raw material for enrichment, from a mine in the south of the country. Salehi said on state televisi...

December 5, 2010 6:08 PM

Iran to use domestically produced uranium for first time

Iran says it will start using domestically produced uranium for the first time today. Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the country has produced its first batch of uranium yellowcake, the raw material for enrichment, from a mine in the south of the country. Salehi said on state televisi...

December 5, 2010 12:58 PM

UN launches $678 million Afghan humanitarian appeal

United Nations has launched a 678 million US dollars humanitarian appeal for Afghanistan, saying that about a quarter of the population goes hungry. UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg said some 74 lakh Afghans are living with hunger and fear of starvation, millio...

December 5, 2010 12:58 PM

UN launches $678 million Afghan humanitarian appeal

United Nations has launched a 678 million US dollars humanitarian appeal for Afghanistan, saying that about a quarter of the population goes hungry. UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Catherine Bragg said some 74 lakh Afghans are living with hunger and fear of starvation, millio...

December 5, 2010 12:54 PM

Stop human rights abuses at home: Havel, Tutu to China

Two former Nobel Peace Prize winners Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu have said China will not be viewed as a true world leader unless it stops human rights abuses at home and no longer supports abusive regimes. The former Czech President and the former Arch Bishop of Cape Town wrote a joint article in...

December 5, 2010 12:54 PM

Stop human rights abuses at home: Havel, Tutu to China

Two former Nobel Peace Prize winners Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu have said China will not be viewed as a true world leader unless it stops human rights abuses at home and no longer supports abusive regimes. The former Czech President and the former Arch Bishop of Cape Town wrote a joint article in...

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