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April 25, 2010 10:33 AM

Mexico criticises US immigrant law

The Mexican Government has joined civil rights groups in the United States to criticise tough new laws against illegal immigrants in the border state of Arizona. The Foreign Minister said Mexico would do everything it could to defend the rights and dignity of Mexicans in Arizona. <br/> &#0...

April 25, 2010 10:33 AM

Tornado kills nine in US state of Mississippi

Storms in the US state of Mississippi have left at least nine people, including children, dead. Governor Haley Barbour said there was "utter obliteration" in Yazoo County, where three died, and he declared a state of emergency in 17 counties. A church in Yazoo City was flattened and houses...

April 25, 2010 10:33 AM

S Korea raises warship, finds clues on sinking?

South Korea on Saturday raised the front half of a warship that exploded and sank a month ago near a contested sea border with North Korea, finding clues that support growing suspicions Pyongyang attacked the vessel. The 1,200-tonne corvette Cheonan sank in what military officials said was likely a ...

April 25, 2010 10:33 AM

Bomb attacks injure many in NW Pak

Pakistan police say a roadside bomb attack on a prison van has wounded at least 10 policemen in the restive northwest. Officials say Saturday's explosion was near a jail in the town of Timergarah in Lower Dir district. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.<br/> <br/...

April 25, 2010 10:32 AM

Bombings kill three in Baghdad

Iraq's Interior Ministry says three people were killed and 19 others wounded when three bombs exploded in south-west Baghdad late on Saturday. Police said the blasts occurred at a billiard hall in the Sunni-Shiet district. <br/> <br/>The explosions followed a series of bombi...

April 25, 2010 10:32 AM

Three dead in New Zealand Air Force chopper crash?

Three crew members have died after their Royal New Zealand Air Force helicopter crashed into a hill near Wellington on Sunday morning. They were killed in the crash and a fourth crew member is in hospital in a critical condition. Authorities are now trying to work out exactly how the helicopter cras...

April 25, 2010 9:36 AM

IMF tries to ease Greece fears?

The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to fear from the organisation. <br/> <br/>Dominique Strauss-Kahn was responding to a Greek journalist who said Greeks are demonising the IMF and fear the country's economic crisis will be worse with its invo...

April 25, 2010 9:32 AM

Mahmoud Abbas rejects Palestinian state within temporary borders

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected the idea of establishment of a Palestinian state within temporary borders, which was recently proposed for restarting peace talks. <br/> <br/>In a speech before the Revolutionary Council of Fatah in Ramallah on Saturday, he urged t...

April 24, 2010 9:17 PM

Pak begins Benazir Bhutto's murder probe

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani today constituted a high level committee to begin investigation into the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. A statement from the Prime Minister's office said the three- member Fact Finding Committee will determine whether the then Di...

April 24, 2010 9:11 PM

Iran to deploy 'drone' by March next year

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have said that by March next year it will deploy a domestically manufactured drone capable of carrying out air strikes.Guards Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh said the super advanced bomber drone, manufactured by the Revolutionary Guards, will be operationa...

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