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January 27, 2010 8:52 AM

Car bomb blast kills 21 people in Baghdad

<br/>In Iraq, eighteen people were killed and 80 wounded in a car bomb blast that hit Baghdad's area of al-Karada on Tuesday.<br/><br/>Quoting police sources, Voice of Iraq news agency reports that a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near the Criminal Evidence Depar...

January 26, 2010 8:58 PM

Four sentenced to death in China

Four more people have been sentenced to death in China for their part in ethnic riots in the western region of Xinjiang. More than 20 people have now been sentenced to death and at least nine executions have already taken place for the unrest last July between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese in and a...

January 26, 2010 8:58 PM

Afghanistan: 6 killed as suicide bomber detonates explosive-laden vehicle

In Afghanistan, at least six people were injured in capital Kabul this evening when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle outside a US military base. Head of Afghanistan's criminal investigation unit Jamil Jumbish said the attacker was driving a minibus laden with explosives w...

January 26, 2010 8:57 PM

Australia to brief India about measures taken to ensure safety of Indians

Australlia will brief India about the measures taken by its government to ensure safety and security of Indians. The Australlian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith will brief his Indian counterpart Mr.S M Krishna on the issue the sidelines of a conference in London later this week. Official sources said...

January 26, 2010 8:56 PM

Lanka: Presidential poll peaceful,70 percent electorate exercise franchise

Nearly 70 per cent voters cast their franchise in Sri Lanka's first post-LTTE presidential election today. The turnout was reported to be brisk around the capital Colombo and the Sinhala dominated areas. But it was light to moderate in Tamil areas of northern part of the island where polling wa...

January 26, 2010 8:55 PM

Lanka: Presidential poll peaceful,70 percent electorate exercise franchise

Nearly 70 per cent voters cast their franchise in Sri Lanka's first post-LTTE presidential election today. The turnout was reported to be brisk around the capital Colombo and the Sinhala dominated areas. But it was light to moderate in Tamil areas of northern part of the island where polling wa...

January 26, 2010 7:52 PM

Lanka: Presidential poll peaceful,70 percent electorate exercise franchise

An estimated 70 per cent of the 14 million plus Sri Lankans today exercised their franchise to elect their sixth President in the first post Prabhakaran phase election. It was largely incident free. The incumbent president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and former army commander Gen Sarath Fonseka are the two ...

January 26, 2010 7:48 PM

14 million Sri Lankans exercised their franchise

An estimated 70 per cent of the 14 million plus Sri Lankans today exercised their franchise to elect their sixth President in the first post Prabhakaran phase election. It was largely incident free. The incumbent president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, and former army commander Gen Sarath Fonseka are the two ...

January 26, 2010 6:47 PM

Obama adopts austerity to reduce deficit in budget

President Obama has decided to introduce a three year spending freeze in an effort to reduce a trillion dollar American budget deficit. His officials say he will announce the measure in his first State of the Union speech tomorrow. <br/><br/>The freeze would not apply to a number...

January 26, 2010 5:56 PM

Strategic partnership with India is one of the top foreign priorities: Russia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says, strategic partnership with India is one of the top foreign policy priorities of his country. Congratulating President Pratibha Patil on the occasion of 61st Republic Day, Mr.Medvedev said, high dynamism in interaction between the two countries in all the spher...

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