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December 5, 2009 7:31 PM
In China, the death toll from H1N1 flu has hit 200 with almost all of the deaths recorded last month. In a statement, the health ministry said 194 of the deaths from the influenza A(H1N1) virus had been reported during the month. Quoting a ministry official the Beijing News today said cold weather w...
December 5, 2009 7:30 PM
Iraq has executed at least 120 prisoners so far this year and 900 remain on death row. In statement, human rights group Amnesty International urged Baghdad to stop the executions of all people condemned to death, adding that some are likely to have been sentenced after unfair trials. Baghdad reintro...
December 5, 2009 7:27 PM
Britain's Conservative leader David Cameron has warned that a cut in UK troop levels in Afghanistan would be pretty unlikely next year. Mr Cameron said he backed government strategy of handing over areas to Afghan control but it should be based on success and not on artificial timelines. He sai...
December 5, 2009 5:50 PM
In China, three people have been killed and five others seriously injured after a tower crane fell from a building under construction in the southern Guangdong Province. The local authorities today said the accident occured on Friday evening when the 30-tonne tower crane fell from the 50th floor of ...
December 5, 2009 5:49 PM
At least three people have been killed in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. Officials initially said the blast near a KFC restaurant, was caused by a bomb. But later Police Chief Liaquat Ali Khan said it was an accidental explosion that went off in a shop with paint stored inside. The ...
December 5, 2009 5:48 PM
In Mexico, fourteen people including 11 drug traffickers and a woman passerby have been killed in a shootout with police during a prison break in northern Monterrey. Two police officers have also been killed in the shoot out. Military officials said the firefight between suspected drug traffickers a...
December 5, 2009 5:48 PM
A letter written by the first US President, George Washington, has sold at auction for 3.2 million dollars. The sale at Christie's in New York, was a record for a letter written by Washington. The four-page letter was written in 1787 to the president's nephew, Bushrod Washington, and urges...
December 5, 2009 5:47 PM
Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation into the handling of last month's flooding in Jeddah that killed at least 150 people. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, who ordered the inquiry, has said that those responsible will be punished. There is intense anger in Jeddah over the death and dest...
December 5, 2009 1:53 PM
At least 111 people were killed and 134 injured, most of them seriously, when an explosion caused by fireworks set ablaze a packed nightclub in the Russian city of Perm. The blast hit the Lame Horse nightclub as over 220 people, mostly its employees and their families, were partying inside to celebr...
December 5, 2009 1:48 PM
A Major General was among the 40 people killed when suicide attackers stormed a mosque frequented by military men near the Pakistan army headquarters in Rawalpindi. Besides the Major General, who was the Director-General of Armoured Corps, eight other officers were also killed in the attack. However...
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