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February 22, 2010 11:06 AM

Pakistan police arrest another Taliban leader: Report

In Pakistan, Police has arrested Mulvi Kabir, one of the top 10 most wanted Taliban leaders and a former Governor of Afghanistan's Nanghar province. According to a US media report Pakistani police captured Kabir in the New Shera district of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. The repor...

February 22, 2010 11:05 AM

Japan ruling party loses local election

In Japan, ruling party lost a local election on Sunday in southern prefecture. Former Nagasaki vice governor Hodo Nakamura backed by opposition Liberal Democratic Party won a landslide victory over the ruling party candidate,former bureaucrat Tsuyoshi Hashimoto. Poll showed support for Prime Ministe...

February 22, 2010 9:40 AM

Israel adds West Bank shrines to heritage list

<br/>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a controversial plan to add two major religious sites in the West Bank to the country's national heritage list. Mr. Netanyahu told his cabinet that the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem wou...

February 21, 2010 9:09 PM

Afghanistan: Six policemen killed as Taliban open fire

In Afghanistan, six policemen have been killed and two injured as Taliban militants opened fire on them in the southern Helmand province. An Interior Ministry statement today said that a unit of police force was busy in destroying poppy farms in Nahr-e-Saraj district yesterday when militants opened ...

February 21, 2010 9:04 PM

Violent rainstorm kills 38 in Portugal

The death toll in the flash floods on the Atlantic island of Madeira has risen to 38 with more than 100 injured, Portuguese authorities say. The government has rushed medical teams, rescuers, divers and relief supplies to the tourist island, warning that more bodies would be found in the mud that fi...

February 21, 2010 8:58 PM

Violent rainstorm kills 30 in Portugal

The death toll in the flash floods on the Atlantic island of Madeira has risen to 38 with more than 100 injured, Portuguese authorities say. The government has rushed medical teams, rescuers, divers and relief supplies to the tourist island, warning that more bodies would be found in the mud that fi...

February 21, 2010 7:43 PM

Philippine troops kill six militants

Philippine troops have killed six militants in an assault on a rebel camp in the south. The military said marines raided the camp of the Abu Sayyaf group on Jolo island. Officials are trying to verify reports that a senior Abu Sayyaf commander was among those killed. Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for b...

February 21, 2010 6:38 PM

Terrorism to focus prominently in Indo-Saudi Arabian talks: Talmiz Ahmad

Terrorism and cooperation in security with special reference to the situation in Afghanistan and West Asia will be key issues that India and Saudi Arab will discuss during the talks between Saudi king and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 28 February. <br/><br/>This was disclosed ...

February 21, 2010 2:08 PM

B’desh pays rich tributes to Language martyrs

<br/>Bangladesh today paid rich tributes to its Language Movement martyrs starting from a minute after midnight. President Zillur Rehman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia laid floral wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka where thousands of pe...

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