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March 18, 2010 10:41 AM
In Guatemala, a criminal court has agreed to extradite former President Alfonso Portillo to the US where he faces money-laundering charges. He was arrested in January following US charges that he had laundered money stolen from a children's charity and embezzled state funds. He has since been h...
March 18, 2010 10:02 AM
Iran says it is ready for a nuclear fuel exchange on its own soil. The offer has been made by Iran's atomic agency chief, Ali Akbar Salehi in an interview in Teheran on Wednesday. Correspondents say the move comes at a time when the major world powers are considering tough sanctions against Ira...
March 18, 2010 9:46 AM
The United Nations says that nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped life in the slums over the past decade. According to a report by the UN Habitat Agency, the improvement was thanks largely to housing efforts in China and India, which made giant strides. Overall, the total number of slum dwel...
March 17, 2010 9:03 PM
The number of people unemployed in the UK has fallen again, leaving the jobless rate at 7.8 per cent. Figures show total unemployment stood at 2.45 million for the three months to January, down 33,000 on the figure for the previous three months. <br/><br/>But long-term unemployme...
March 17, 2010 9:03 PM
At least 13 people have been killed in the latest sectarian violence to hit central Nigeria. Officials said Muslim herdsmen raided a Christian village south of the city of Jos early today, setting homes on fire and attacking people with machetes as they ran outside. <br/><br/>Wit...
March 17, 2010 9:02 PM
At least 13 people have been killed in the latest sectarian violence to hit central Nigeria. Officials said Muslim herdsmen raided a Christian village south of the city of Jos early today, setting homes on fire and attacking people with machetes as they ran outside. Witnesses said the attackers were...
March 17, 2010 8:58 PM
Hundreds of people started evacuating resort islands off Australia's popular east coast today as officials braced for a powerful cyclone packing winds of up to 168 kilometres an hour. <br/><br/>About 300 people were being ferried from the Great Barrier Reef islands, north of...
March 17, 2010 8:30 PM
In Nepal, nearly two dozen Tibetan exiles detained in Kathmandu during their recent protest rallies against the Chinese rule in Tibet have launched hunger strike from today, demanding their immediate release.<br/><br/>According to Nepal Police Spokesperson Bigyan Raj Sharma, 23 T...
March 17, 2010 8:29 PM
An oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan was blown up with a bomb in the lawless Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan Officials of the local political administration said there were no reports of casualties in the incident.<br/><br/>The tanker's drive...
March 17, 2010 8:26 PM
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today left Dhaka for Beijing on a state visit to China. During her stay in Beijing, she will hold talks with the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao. <br/><br/>The two sides are expected to sign three agreements which include...
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