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December 29, 2009 11:31 AM

Death of opposition leader Mousavi’s nephew under investigation

Tehran Police Commander has announced that death of opposition leader Mousavi's nephew is under investigation and the result will be announced soon. According to Iranian news agency, Police Commander Azizollah Rajabzadeh said in a statement that those died on Sunday were killed in a mysterious way a...

December 29, 2009 11:22 AM

China executes Akmal Shaikh

British national Akmal Shaikh has been executed in China for drug smuggling despite last-ditch pleas for clemency from the man's family, human rights groups and the British government. China's Supreme Court had earlier approved the death sentence which was carried out by firing squad a sho...

December 29, 2009 10:57 AM

Canada bans most carry-on luggage for US-bound passengers

Canadian officials have banned most carry-on luggage for US-bound passengers following a failed Christmas Day plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner. Transport Canada has said that passengers may only carry medical devices, small purses, cameras, laptop computers, canes, walkers, diaper bags, musi...

December 29, 2009 10:56 AM

President Obama vows to defeat al-Qaeda terrorist network

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to defeat the al-Qaeda terrorist network and hit them anywhere in the world from where they are plotting attack against the US. President Obama said this in his first public statement after the foiled attempt by an al-Qaeda operative to blow up a US plane o...

December 29, 2009 10:54 AM

Afghanistan’s neighbours helping destabilize the country: NATO official

A NATO intelligence official has said that Afghanistan's neighbours are helping destabilize the country as time is running out on the western efforts to contain Taliban-led militancy. Briefing reporters in Kabul on Monday, the official accused Pakistan and Iran of maintaining links with the Afghan T...

December 29, 2009 10:41 AM

Clashes in northern Nigeria kill at least 20 people

At least 20 people have been died in clashes between security forces and members of a religious sect in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi. Some eyewitnesses said as many as 37 people had been killed.<br/><br/>The fighting came after local people were alarmed by open-air preac...

December 29, 2009 10:40 AM

British Govt. appeals to Chinese authorities for clemency

The British Government has made a last minute appeal to the Chinese authorities to show clemency towards the British man convicted of drug smuggling. Akmal Shaikh from London has been told he will be executed in a few hours time. Relatives of the man, who were allowed to see him, say he has been men...

December 29, 2009 10:40 AM

Three custom officials arrested in Spain

Three custom officials working at a Spanish provincial airport have been arrested as part of an international drug smuggling ring. Detectives seized heroin at an estimated street value of 100 million tonnes on board a plane from Colombia.<br/> <br/>

December 29, 2009 10:39 AM

Egyptian Govt. refuses foreign activists to travel to Gaza

Hundreds of foreign activists have been protesting in Cairo against Egyptian refusal to let them travel to Gaza. The activists were planning to take aid convoys to Gaza to express their solidarity with the Palestinians and marking the start of Israeli offensive in Gaza last year. Egyptians stopped t...

December 29, 2009 10:39 AM

Iranian Govt.TV accuses foreign press

Iranian opposition groups say the authorities have arrested at least eight prominent reformists as part of a new crack-down on anti-Government protests on Sunday.<br/>At least eight people were killed in demonstrations. Iranian Government Television accused foreign press of fomenting the r...

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