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December 8, 2009 9:24 PM

Iraq sets parliament elections on 6th March next year

The Iraqi presidency council has announced 6th March next year as the date for the country's parliamentary election.<br/><br/>According to Iraq's semi-official al-Iraqiya TV the decision has been taken in an emergency session of presidency council.<br/><br/>Ir...

December 8, 2009 9:08 PM

Five powerful car bombs rock Baghdad; kill 127 people, injure 450

Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 127 people, many of them students, and wounding 448. This is the third co-ordinated massacre to devastate the Iraqi capital since August. An interior ministry official said, two car bombs exploded near the labour and interior ministr...

December 8, 2009 5:24 PM

Car bombs kill 62 people in Baghdad

Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 101 people, many of them students, and wounding 182. This is the third co-ordinated massacre to devastate the Iraqi capital since August. An interior ministry official said, two car bombs exploded near the labour and interior minist...

December 8, 2009 5:12 PM

Bomb blasts kill 12 in Pakistan’s Multan city

In Pakistan, nine people have been killed and 29 others injured in a bomb blast near an intelligence office in the city of Multan on Tuesday. Police said the blast took place in the Qasim Bela area. TV channels showed images of damaged buildings and ambulances at the scene in Multan. No-one has yet ...

December 8, 2009 5:02 PM

Car bombs kill 62 people in Baghdad

Five powerful car bombs rocked Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 62 people, and wounding 105, many of them students. The blasts shattered a month of calm in the capital ahead of a general election.An interior ministry official said, two car bombs exploded near the labour and interior ministries a...

December 8, 2009 5:01 PM

Eight students killed in China school stampede

In China, eight students have been killed and 26 others injured in a stampede in a school in the Xiangtan city of Hunan province.<br/><br/>The accident took place when hundreds of students who finished their evening study on Monday swarmed to get down stairs through a narrow exit...

December 8, 2009 2:50 PM

UN, EU welcome US resolve to address climate issue

The UN and Eruopean Union (EU) officials at the Copenhagen Climate summit have welcomed the US declaration that green house gases are threatening to human health. An EU spokesman said, the announcement shows a degree of resolve on the part of President Barack Obama to address climate change. United ...

December 8, 2009 2:41 PM

62 killed in Iraq blast

At least 62 people have been killed and more than one hundred others injured in a series of large explosions in the centre of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad today. The first blast targeted a police patrol in the Doura district of the capital. At least four others occurred near official buildings within ...

December 8, 2009 2:40 PM

Another Blast in Pak, 9 killed

In Pakistan, nine people were killed and 29 others injured in a bomb blast near an intelligence office in the city of Multan today. Police said the blast took place in the Qasim Bela area. TV channels showed images of damaged buildings and ambulances at the scene in Multan. No-one has yet claimed re...

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