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May 14, 2010 12:06 PM
In Brazil, six people died on Thursday in a small plane crash in Manaus in northern Amazonas state. According to the authorities, the crash occurred some 15 minutes after the takeoff. The plane crashed into an area that belongs to a seminary and blew up. No one on the ground was injured in the accid...
May 14, 2010 12:06 PM
Police and bomb squad agents are investigating a suspicious vehicle near Union Square in New York City on Thursday. A pedestrian reportedly saw two gas canisters inside the parked car and called police. Streets and buildings nearby have been evacuated as a precaution, and bomb squad agents with a ro...
May 14, 2010 12:06 PM
Somali pirates have released a British chemical tanker which was hijacked in December last year with 26 crew aboard. The European Union naval force spokesman John Harbour today said St. James Park and its 26 crew released on Thursday was sailing to Thailand from Spain. On Thursday morning, a ransom ...
May 14, 2010 12:05 PM
In China, state media say that twenty one miners were killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the southwest of the country on Thursday. All workers known to be in the pit were accounted for following the explosion, as 10 workers escaped to safety. The accident occurred at a coal mine in the city of...
May 14, 2010 10:18 AM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said an assault against Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan would not destroy the city of Kandahar. Speaking with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his visit to Washington, she said the operation would not be a "huge, massive assault". Mrs Cl...
May 14, 2010 10:18 AM
Police in Greece says a bomb has exploded outside a top security prison near Athens. A telephone warning had been given. No group has said it was responsible but similar attacks in the past had been blamed on left wing guerillas. <br/>This was a big explosion. The blast was heard in centra...
May 14, 2010 10:11 AM
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will invite his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi to India during his visit to Islamabad in July as part of efforts to reduce the trust deficit between the two neighbours. Mr.Krishna told reporters on his way back home from a visit to Kazakhstan that th...
May 14, 2010 10:08 AM
Delegates from East African countries are meeting in Uganda on Friday to demand a greater access to waters of the river Nile. Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi are demanding changes to the Treaty dating back to 1929 which gives Egypt the right to use...
May 14, 2010 10:03 AM
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will invite his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi to India during his visit to Islamabad in July as part of efforts to reduce the trust deficit between the two neighbours. Mr.Krishna told reporters on his way back home from a visit to Kazakhstan that th...
May 14, 2010 9:43 AM
Maldives today secured a seat on the Human Rights Council, the principal UN inter-governmental body responsible for promoting and protecting human rights and, alongside the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), one of the UN system's three Councils.<br/>A press sta...
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