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March 20, 2010 8:45 PM
In Sierra Leone, at least 200 people have been killed in a cave-in which took place in a mine in the western African country. Local media report on Saturday said the accident occurred on Friday in a gold mine in the south of the country, less than 300 kilometres from the capital of Freetown. The rep...
March 20, 2010 8:03 PM
Turkey has announced to postpone the Conference on U.S.-Turkey Relations in response to the U.S. passage of a "genocide" resolution. <br/><br/>Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey said the 29th Annual conference, initially planned to be held in Washington on April...
March 20, 2010 7:34 PM
In Pakistan, forty suspected militants have been arrested during search operations in different areas of Khar and Nawgai tehsils in Bajaur Agency. Meanwhile, unidentified miscreants blew up a Government Boys school in Garbal area of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency on Saturday morning. However, no casu...
March 20, 2010 6:45 PM
Russia has warned Iran that it is wasting chance to start a broad dialogue. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Moscow that Iran's defiance over its nuclear programme means the country is wasting a chance for talks to find a solution. Sergei Lavrov reiterated that sanctions against Iran coul...
March 20, 2010 6:43 PM
In China, nine people have been killed and 11 others seriously injured when a bus veered off an expressway in eastern Jiangsu Province. <br/><br/>Local authorities said on Saturday said that the incident occurred o night when the bus carrying 46 people from Nantong City in Jiangs...
March 20, 2010 6:34 PM
In Pakistan, ten militants were killed on Saturday in an operation by security forces in Orakzai agency. <br/><br/>Gunship helicopters targeted hideouts of terrorists in different areas of the agency and destroyed four of their hideouts. In a similar operation, on Friday the secu...
March 20, 2010 6:20 PM
Pope Benedict XVI has apologized to victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland. This follows revelations of paedophilia within the Irish Catholic Church, which have rocked the institution. <br/><br/>In a pastoral letter to Irish Catholics, he acknowledged the sense...
March 20, 2010 5:05 PM
Nepalese Congress President and Former Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala is dead. He died this afternoon at the residence of his daughter and Foreign Minsiter Sujata Koirala. Party' Senior Leader Sher Bahadur Deuba told newsmen that G.P. Koirala passed away at 12:10 hrs. today. The body of t...
March 20, 2010 3:00 PM
Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today met top UN diplomats from Brazil, Japan and Germany and discussed issues of mutual interest. On the last leg of her six-day US tour, Rao met the ambassadors at a lunch hosted by Indian envoy Hardeep Singh Puri in New York. <br/><br/>She also m...
March 20, 2010 3:00 PM
In Pakistan, atleast 28 terrorists were killed in air strikes and clashes in the tribal belt of the country's volatile northwest. Official sources said in Peshawar that Pakistani jet fighters pounded terrorist hideouts in Zakhtan, Starmaila and Narisoka areas of Aurakzai tribal region.Three mil...
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