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September 28, 2010 8:23 PM

Landslide buries 300 houses in Mexico?

A landslide has buried up to 300 houses in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and is feared to have killed hundreds while they slept. Local media said heavy rain overnight saturated the soil on a mountainside above the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, causing it to slip early today. It is not c...

September 28, 2010 8:23 PM

Landslide buries 300 houses in Mexico?

A landslide has buried up to 300 houses in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and is feared to have killed hundreds while they slept. Local media said heavy rain overnight saturated the soil on a mountainside above the town of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, causing it to slip early today. It is not c...

September 28, 2010 8:23 PM

Pirate ringleader sentenced to death in Somalia

A pirate ringleader has been sentenced to death by a court in the breakaway Somali state of Puntland. Salah Mohamed Gelle faces execution for murdering Sayid Jacfar, the Pakistani skipper of hijacked cargo ship the MV QSM Dubai, in early June. Seven other pirates who took part in the assault were se...

September 28, 2010 8:23 PM

Pirate ringleader sentenced to death in Somalia

A pirate ringleader has been sentenced to death by a court in the breakaway Somali state of Puntland. Salah Mohamed Gelle faces execution for murdering Sayid Jacfar, the Pakistani skipper of hijacked cargo ship the MV QSM Dubai, in early June. Seven other pirates who took part in the assault were se...

September 28, 2010 8:22 PM

Iran cautions Russia on siding with US

Iran has cautioned Russia that siding with the US against Iran will harm Moscow's long-term interests. Reacting to Russia's termination of delivery of the sophisticated S-300 missile system to Iran, country's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday...

September 28, 2010 8:22 PM

Iran cautions Russia on siding with US

Iran has cautioned Russia that siding with the US against Iran will harm Moscow's long-term interests. Reacting to Russia's termination of delivery of the sophisticated S-300 missile system to Iran, country's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in Tehran on Tuesday...

September 28, 2010 8:18 PM

Israeli naval commandos board Jewish activist boat

Israeli naval commandos have boarded a Jewish aid boat attempting to break a naval blockade on Gaza. According to a statement of Israeli defence forces, its navy has intercepted a catamaran carrying nine Jewish activists toward the Gaza Strip and theytook control of the sailboat and escorted it to s...

September 28, 2010 8:18 PM

Israeli naval commandos board Jewish activist boat

Israeli naval commandos have boarded a Jewish aid boat attempting to break a naval blockade on Gaza. According to a statement of Israeli defence forces, its navy has intercepted a catamaran carrying nine Jewish activists toward the Gaza Strip and theytook control of the sailboat and escorted it to s...

September 28, 2010 8:17 PM

China's high-speed train sets new speed record?

A high-speed train in eastern China set a new speed record during its trial service on Tuesday. The China-made CRH380A train hit a maximum speed of 416.6 kilometers per hour - a world train speed record - on its run between the metropolis of Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Z...

September 28, 2010 8:17 PM

China's high-speed train sets new speed record?

A high-speed train in eastern China set a new speed record during its trial service on Tuesday. The China-made CRH380A train hit a maximum speed of 416.6 kilometers per hour - a world train speed record - on its run between the metropolis of Shanghai and Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Z...

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