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April 21, 2010 9:24 AM
Afghanistan has begun registering thousands of candidates for parliamentary elections due to be held in September. Officials say President Hamid Karzai last week named Fazel Ahmad Manawi as new head of the Independent Election Commission after the previous chief resigned. On Saturday, the UN also an...
April 21, 2010 9:16 AM
The first plane has landed at Heathrow airport in London after Britain lifted its nationwide flight ban. Throughout the day some other countries also relaxed their restrictions.<br/> <br/>More than 95,000 flights were cancelled across Europe in the last week and it may take weeks...
April 21, 2010 9:16 AM
The ruling coalition in Sri Lanka led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa secured victory in the re polls at the Kandy and Trincomalee district increasing its tally of seats to 144 , six seats short of the two -thirds majority. The final tally of seats in the April 8th General Election as announced by th...
April 20, 2010 10:23 PM
In Afghanistan, the deputy mayor of Kandahar has been assassinated as he took part in evening prayers. Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the Kandahar government said Azizullah Yarmal, 45, was praying in a mosque in the Sadoza Dana neighborhood around 9 p.m. last night when an attacker walked in and sho...
April 20, 2010 10:23 PM
An estimated 55 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the 37 polling booths of the Kandy and Trincomalee districts in Sri Lanka for which re-polling was held today.The Election Commissioner had ordered the re-poll following complaints of irregularities at some of the polling booths and withhe...
April 20, 2010 10:22 PM
Somali pirates have seized three Thai fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, in what the EU Naval Force said was the furthest off-shore attack to date. <br/><br/>An EU force spokesman said the three vessels, carrying a total of 77 crew members, were hijacked on Sunday. He said that...
April 20, 2010 7:54 PM
The space shuttle Discovery has landed back on Earth after a two-week mission to the International Space Station. The orbiter touched down on runway 33 at the Kennedy Space Center at 0908 local time.Discovery had been held in orbit early in the day by some stubborn fog and showers in the Kennedy are...
April 20, 2010 7:53 PM
The ousted leader of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, is now in Belarus. The country's president Alexander Lukashenko today told the parliament that Mr Bakiyev had been in the country with four members of his family as guests since last evening. <br/><br/>Mr Lukashenko said Ba...
April 20, 2010 7:53 PM
In Iraq, gunmen have stormed the house of an anti-Al Qaeda tribal chief and killed his wife and children. Police said the Sunni militia member was not at home when the killings happened. <br/><br/>The armed men cut the throats of his three young sons and shot his wife and a daugh...
April 20, 2010 7:40 PM
After a decade of celebrations across the world , the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) is all set to stage the IIFA weekend and IIFA Awards in the exotic island of Sri Lanka.The 11th edtion of the IIFA will be held in the island nation's capital , Colombo from June 3rd to 5th 2010Amitabh Bac...
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