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January 7, 2010 3:24 PM
Thousands of former child soldiers held in Nepalese camps for Maoist rebels will start leaving the camps on Thursday. An official ceremony has begun to mark the release of several hundred children at a camp in Sindhuli district, in central Nepal. <br/> <br/>The children have been...
January 7, 2010 3:22 PM
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has stressed the need to strengthen the Afghan government's role while coordinating more effective international civilian efforts. Addressing the UN Security Council, he said better coordination based on strong political willingness of donor countries and st...
January 7, 2010 3:21 PM
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has held talks with senior Israeli and American officials on the West Asia peace process, highlighting the need to overcome hurdles to resume Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. <br/> <br/>According to a statement of the UN, received by Prasar Bhart...
January 7, 2010 2:59 PM
In Egypt, seven people were killed on Wednesday when three men in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd of churchgoers in the southern Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi. According to Egypt's Interior Ministry three people were seriously wounded in the attack at St. John's Church. Bishop Kirollos o...
January 7, 2010 2:47 PM
The common opposition Presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka released his much awaited election manifesto on Thursday in Colombo. He has pledged to start the process of national reconciliation and to restore democracy and win peace. The ten point manifesto aims at removing fraud and corruption and to...
January 7, 2010 1:03 PM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said that countries like India are emerging as major contributors to global development efforts which has emerged as a key foreign policy tool. <br/> <br/>Speaking at a forum in Washington on 'Development in the 21st Century&...
January 7, 2010 1:02 PM
After all the concern over possible damage to health from using mobile phones, scientists have found a potential benefit from radiation. Florida scientists found that phone radiation actually protected the memories of mice programmed to get Alzheimer's disease. <br/> <br/>A ...
January 7, 2010 11:19 AM
LTTE leader late Prabhakaran's aged father died last night. He was 86. He was discovered by the Sri Lankan troops amongst the war displaced civilians in the refugee camps in Manik Farm in the last week of May.
January 7, 2010 11:04 AM
A grand jury in the American city of Detroit has formally charged a Nigerian man in connection with an alleged attempt to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day. Senior American officials say the man Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalab told investigators that he was trained in Yemen by Al Qaeda operati...
January 7, 2010 10:56 AM
Severe winter weather has brought transport disruption to parts of Europe. In the UK, thousands of schools were closed and travellers have been hit by major delays after heavy snowfall left swathes of the country at a halt. Temperatures as low as -22C have left 122 dead in Poland this winter, while ...
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