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February 1, 2010 7:03 PM

100 grandsons attend birthday of their 110 yr. old grand mother in Syria

A Syrian woman Wasila Ali Qaddour, known as Um Hassan, has celebrated her 110th birthday in her hometown village in northwestern governorate of Idleb. The official SANA news agency today said Wasila is still blessed with good health and does her housework. The people of her town call her "the m...

February 1, 2010 7:02 PM

North-South Koreas hold talks on Kaesong jt. industrial complex

Working-level officials from North and South Korea began talks on the operation of the Kaesong joint industrial complex. At the one-day talks at the North's border city of Kaesong, the South expected to bring up the subject of border restrictions that have slowed its transportation and communic...

February 1, 2010 7:01 PM

41 killed & 106 injured when women suicide blasted herself in N-E Baghdad

In Iraq, at least 41 people have been killed and 106 injured in a suicide bomb attack by a female bomber in north-east Baghdad. An interior ministry spokesman said the woman detonated her explosives vest among a group of pilgrims making the journey to Karbala, 80 kilometres from Baghdad. <br/&#...

February 1, 2010 7:01 PM

Bus hijacker mows down nine in China

In China, a vehicle dispatcher at a transport company in the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone hijacked a bus from his company this morning and then drove the bus into people on the road, killing nine and injuring eleven others. <br/><br/>Reports said the 40-year-old man, Zhang Yimin,...

February 1, 2010 5:57 PM

CBI receives documents confirming Prabhakaran's death

The CBI has received documentation confirming the death of LTTE Cheif V Prabhakaran, prime accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination from the government of Sri Lanka. The Home Minister P Chidambaram said that in New Delhi today. <br/><br/>The CBI had said in a recent RTI reply th...

February 1, 2010 5:57 PM

Lanka Opposition to unitedly contest parliamentary polls

Sri Lanka's opposition Tamil and Muslim parties today pledged to continue their alliance in the forthcoming Parliamentary elections, buoyed by a favourable electoral tide in north and east of the country in the recent Presidential polls.<br/><br/>Parliamentary group leader o...

February 1, 2010 5:57 PM

16 killed, 38 injured in suicide bomb blast in N-E Baghdad

In Iraq, at least 16 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on pilgrims in north-east Baghdad. At least 38 other pilgrims were hurt in the attack, which happened as they made a pilgrimage to Karbala. Police said a woman detonated her suicide vest in Boub El Sham district at a refreshment s...

February 1, 2010 5:53 PM

Israel admits using White phosphorus shells in Gaza

Israel has revealed that it has disciplined two senior army officers for using white phosphorus shells during an offensive in Gaza. The admission is contained in the Israeli response to the Goldstone report, which concluded both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes. Details of any punishment gi...

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