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January 18, 2010 8:48 PM
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has seized control of a foreign supermarket chain, Exito, after he accused the company of hiking its prices. Mr. Chavez said the joint French-Colombian supermarket chain was guilty of breaking Venezuelan law on price controls and would now pass into state hands. <b...
January 18, 2010 8:09 PM
The Bangladesh cabinet on Monday adopted a resolution mourning the death of veteran Indian politician Jyoti Basu. The cabinet which met on Monday chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina passed a resolution which said that 'the legendary figure of the left-leaning politics will be remembered in the p...
January 18, 2010 8:09 PM
In China, heavy snows in the northwestern Xinjiang region have killed four people and left 100,000 homes collapsed or damaged, with still more icy weather on the way. <br/><br/>State media on Monday says temperatures over the next few days could fall to as low as minus 42 degrees...
January 18, 2010 8:08 PM
Somali pirates have freed a Greek-owned oil tanker, a day after one of the largest ransoms ever paid was delivered to the ship. Officials said the Maran Centaurus, one of the largest oil tankers ever seized, was captured on 29 November with 28 crew members.<br/><br/>A ransom of b...
January 18, 2010 8:08 PM
North Korea says it will not return to international nuclear disarmament negotiations unless sanctions are lifted. A foreign ministry statement in Pyongyang on Monday said that it is a matter of dignity for North Korea. <br/><br/>The statement said that the talks will collapse ag...
January 18, 2010 7:34 PM
In Ukraine, five people were killed and several others injured in an explosion at a hospital in Lugansk city today when a number of oxygen tanks exploded in a ward of the Lungask hospital. <br/><br/>The Health Ministry said more than six hundred people were in the hospital at the...
January 18, 2010 7:05 PM
The US on Monday said Pakistan will have to take more actions to curb the activities of the Taliban group which operates from Pakistan-Afghanistan border. US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke discussed the situation in these countries with External Affairs Minister S M Kri...
January 18, 2010 6:42 PM
In Nepal, the visiting US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Patrick Moon called on Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal in Kathmandu on Monday.<br/><br/>According to official sources, the meeting discussed the peace process, drafting o...
January 18, 2010 6:15 PM
Afghanistan President Mr. Hamid Karzai has said security has been restored in Kabul after a Taliban attack this morning that left five civilians and seven militants dead. Afghan President said in a statement that the enemies of Afghanistan are trying to spread fear among Kabul citizens. Interior min...
January 18, 2010 6:06 PM
In Afghanistan, at least six people including four militants were killed and several more injured when a series of explosions and attacks rocked the capital Kabul on Monday morning. A suicide car bomber exploded himself at the entrance of a shopping center near foreign ministry killing two people an...
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