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January 5, 2010 8:34 PM
The Sri Lankan Parliament on Tuesday extended the state of Emergency in the country ahead of the January 26 Presidential election by another month with 97 members voting in favor of the motion and 18 members voting against it.<br/><br/>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) voted agai...
January 5, 2010 8:33 PM
Iran has banned its citizens from co-operating with foreign organisations, it says are trying to destabilise the government. State media said the 60 blacklisted groups include human rights groups, Iranian opposition websites and media groups such as the BBC and US broadcasters. Iran's deputy in...
January 5, 2010 8:33 PM
The Chinese capital was in the grip of its coldest weather in 20 years on Tuesday after snow storms caused chaos, while South Korea sent out an army of civil servants and soldiers to clear clogged roads. China's national weather centre said the mercury dipped today to minus 15.6 degrees Celsius...
January 5, 2010 8:18 PM
At least 29 people, including two state police officers and six women, were killed in 24 hours in Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua. Officials said a group of six attackers killed two state police personnel in a hail of bullets as they left a car body shop. The killings, along with 13 others...
January 5, 2010 6:20 PM
Pakistani troops killed five Taliban militants and arrested 22 others during operations in the troubled Swat valley and the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. The Militrary said in a statement in Islamabad that three militants were killed and a soldier was injured during a gun battle that erupted wh...
January 5, 2010 6:09 PM
In China, 27 miners are trapped after a coal mine fire in central Hunan Province. A government official said the fire happened at Lisheng Coal Mine in Tanjiashan Town on Tuesday afternoon. Rescuers had begun searching for the miners, who could still be alive. An investigation into the cause of the a...
January 5, 2010 6:07 PM
In Israel, The Jerusalem planning and building committee has approved construction of four new residential buildings in the eastern part of the city, despite international calls for a cessation of activity in the heavily Palestinian area.<br/><br/>According to Israeli daily Haare...
January 5, 2010 5:46 PM
The US embassy in Yemen reopened on Tuesday, after a two-day closure prompted by al-Qaida threat against Western interests in the Arab country. A statement posted on the embassy's Web site said successful counter-terrorism operations conducted by Yemeni security forces had addressed specific co...
January 5, 2010 5:03 PM
Australia on Tuesday said it will cooperate with the family of Nitin Garg, the Indian youth who was killed in Melbourne. Acting Foreign Minister Simon Crean said it will expedite the process of returning of Nitin's body back home. While Australian officials have insisted that no race angle was ...
January 5, 2010 1:54 PM
In Nepal, the discharge of disqualified Maoist combatants from the UN monitored cantonments is set to begin from the 7th of this month. This was decided at a meeting of the supervisory committee overlooking the discharge and rehabilitation of the disqualified combatants held in Kathmandu on Monday. ...
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