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March 1, 2010 7:38 PM

China: 31 miners trapped in flooded mine

In China, thirty one miners have been trapped in a coal mine which was flooded in the northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The accident happened this morning at Luotuoshan Coal Mine in Wuhai City, at least 600 kilometers from the regional capital Hohhot. According to rescue operation headquart...

March 1, 2010 7:37 PM

Bodies of 17 suspected militants found in north-west Pakistan

The bodies of 17 suspected militants have been found in the semi-autonomous Darra Adamkhel tribal region of north-west Pakistan. Officials said all the corpses found yesterday had gunshot wounds and were militants killed during a clash with security forces. But residents said they could have been ki...

March 1, 2010 6:12 PM

Ice breaks between Georgia and Russia, border crossing reopens

A mountain border crossing between Georgia and Russia was reopened today in a rare sign of easing tensions between the two former Soviet republics. <br/><br/>The spokesman for the Federal Security Service border department for North Ossetia, Mr. Alexander Solod said the border cr...

March 1, 2010 6:11 PM

Karadzic describes Serb cause in Bosnian war as just and holy

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has said the Serb cause in the Bosnian war was just and holy as he began his defence at his genocide trial at The Hague. Mr. Karadzic, who led the Bosnian Serbs during the war in the 1990s, said there was a core group of Muslims in Bosnia, then and now, wh...

March 1, 2010 6:11 PM

India is proud of its Diaspora: PM

The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that India is proud of its Diaspora and government has taken several steps for the welfare of Indians living abroad. <br/><br/>Speaking at a reception of Indian community at Indian Embassy in Riyadh before leaving Saudi Arabia after ...

March 1, 2010 6:10 PM

King Saud University confers honorary doctorate on PM

The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, who is a renowned economist and architect of India's economic reforms, was today conferred an honorary doctorate by Saudi Arabia's prestigious King Saud University. <br/><br/>Accepting the honour, the Prime Minister recalled his da...

March 1, 2010 6:08 PM

Pak: Security forces rescue two Sikhs abducted by Taliban

Two Sikhs, abducted by Taliban, have been rescued by security forces in the restive Khyber tribal region in northwest Pakistan. A military spokesman said today that the operation was conducted in a remote area along the boundary between Khyber and Aurakzai tribal regions on the basis of a tip-off fr...

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