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January 17, 2010 9:29 PM
With less than ten days remaining of the crucial Sri Lankan Presidential election, the United States (U.S.) and Norway have become the centre of a controversy over alleged funding of the election campaign of the opposition consensus candidate retired General Sarath Fonseka to oust the incumbent Pres...
January 17, 2010 9:17 PM
Gunmen have ambushed a bus in the southern Philippines, wounding 12 people in a suspected extortion attempt. The regional military chief, Lieutenant-General Benjamin Dolorfino said the vehicle was attacked late on Saturday evening on its regular route to the city of Pagadian. He said the driver, who...
January 17, 2010 8:57 PM
BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Khaleda Zia on Sunday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India was a failure. <br/><br/>Addressing a press conference in Dhaka on Sunday, she claimed that Prime minister Sheikh Hasina had brought nothing back from her re...
January 17, 2010 8:54 PM
Israeli forces have arrested 14 Palestinians off the coast of the Gaza Strip and in Israeli- occupied West Bank. Palestinian witnesses and security sources today said the Israeli navy stopped a Palestinian fishing boat in the waters of southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and ordered the four fishermen...
January 17, 2010 8:54 PM
In Afghanistan, Taliban militants have ambushed and killed a district chief and five of his bodyguards in the western Herat province. <br/><br/>Police spokeosman Abdul Rauf Ahmadi said the district chief of Chisht was on the way to office this morning when Taliban rebels ambushed...
January 17, 2010 8:53 PM
In Iraq, three suspected Al -Qaida militants were killed today in a raid by U.S. and Iraqi troops in a village in the eastern province of Diyala. According to sources, the operation was conducted at dawn when the joint troops stormed the village of Kharab, some 20 kilometres south of the provincial ...
January 17, 2010 7:39 PM
A team of seismologists has said a huge wave-generating quake capable of killing as many people as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. They said the city of Padang is in the firing line. The group led by the prominent scientist John McCloskey, a profes...
January 17, 2010 7:39 PM
In Malaysia, one teacher died and five students were still missing after their boat capsized off the resort island of Penang on Sunday morning. Police chief Ayub Yakob said 18 people were on the boat when strong undercurrents tipped it over as it made a turn. He said they were practising for a drago...
January 17, 2010 7:14 PM
Iran has said that the 5+1 programs and talks over Iran's nuclear program are doomed to failure as long as they fail to adopt a realistic approach towards the issue.<br/><br/> Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mihman-Parast told official news agency IRNA today that the onl...
January 17, 2010 7:13 PM
The annual World Future Energy Summit is set to begin in UAE's capital, Abu Dhabi from Monday. More than 98 government delegations are expected to attend the summit along with another 1,400 business leaders.<br/><br/>The Indian Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdu...
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