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March 31, 2010 8:05 PM

Iranian scientist defects to USA

An Iranian nuclear scientist who has been missing since June has defected to the United States. ABC News said Shahram Amiri had been resettled in the US and was helping the CIA in its efforts to block Iran's nuclear programme.Mr Amiri disappeared in Saudi Arabia while on a Muslim pilgrimage. Ac...

March 31, 2010 8:04 PM

Afghansitan: Explosion leaves 13 civilians dead

In Afghanistan, at least 17 civilians have been killed when a bicycle bomb went off in the southern Helmand province. Acting provincial police chief Kamaludin Shirzai said terrorists planted explosive device in a bicycle and detonated it on a weekly bazaar in Maljir area between Babaji and Gereshk d...

March 31, 2010 6:40 PM

Afghansitan: Explosion leaves 13 civilians dead

In Afghanistan, at least thirteen civilians have been killed in an explosion in Helmand province in the south of the country. Local officials said the blast took place this morning when people had gathered in Babaji area in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah to receive improved seeds from a governme...

March 31, 2010 6:39 PM

Pak govt. ask Swiss to reopen graft cases against Zardari

Pakistan government has asked Switzerland to reopen graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari related to the alleged stashing of 60 million US dollars in Swiss banks. The country's anti-corruption agency told the Supreme Court today that authorities had written letters to Swiss Attorney Ge...

March 31, 2010 6:37 PM

Suicide bombings claim 12 lives in Russia

In Russia, at least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by two suicide bombings in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. The first blast took place outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar. Dagestani Inter...

March 31, 2010 6:35 PM

Suicide bombings claim 12 lives in Russia

In Russia, at least 12 people, including a top local police official, have been killed by two suicide bombings in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan. The first blast took place outside the offices of the local interior ministry and the FSB security agency in the town of Kizlyar. Dagestani Inter...

March 31, 2010 2:26 PM

US general declares war on junk food?

The US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has banned American and NATO troops from eating fast food. The General, who runs 13 kilometres every morning and eats just one meal a day, has ordered junk food outlets on all military bases to be closed. <br/><br/>Mili...

March 31, 2010 2:25 PM

Seven killed in Afghanistan explosion

<br/>In Afghanistan, seven civilians were killed and five others injured in an explosion in Helmand province in the south the country this morning. <br/><br/>Local officials said the blast took place when people had gathered in Babaji area in the provincial capital Lash...

March 31, 2010 2:22 PM

Serbian MPs offer apology for Srebrenica massacre

<br/>The Serbian parliament has issued a formal apology to families of more than seven thousand people killed by Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia in 1995. The resolution adopted late yesterday condemned the massacre but stopped short of describing it as genocide, the term used...

March 31, 2010 1:51 PM

9 killed in twin suicide blasts in Russia

In Russia, nine people, including a local police chief, were killed and many others injured today in two successive blasts in Kizlyar town in North Caucasus region of Dagestan. According to Interfax news agency, the local police chief Vitaly Vedernikov was also killed in suicide attack by a man in p...

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