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November 17, 2009 1:53 PM
In Afghanistan, insurgents fired two rockets into a crowded market northeast of Kabul on Tuesday where the head of French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders. The attack killed 12 Afghan civilians and wounded at least another 38.French military sources said the target had ...
November 17, 2009 1:46 PM
British Prime Minister Mr. Gordon Brown today offered to host an international conference on Afghanistan in London in January after President Hamid Karzai is sworn in for a second term. He said that the conference should set a comprehensive political framework for the war-scarred country, and possib...
November 17, 2009 1:20 PM
At least one person was killed and many others injured today when unidentified assailants targeted a senior police official with a roadside bomb in Quetta city in southwest Pakistan. Deputy Inspector General (operations) Nizam Shahid Durrani was among those who were injured in the attack that occurr...
November 17, 2009 1:18 PM
China has become one of a handful of nations to own one of the top five supercomputers in the world. Its Tianhe-1 computer, housed at the National Super Computer Center in Tianjin was ranked fifth on the biannual Top 500 supercomputer list. The machine packs more than 70,000 chips and can compute 56...
November 17, 2009 1:17 PM
At least 10 people were killed and 40 injured when a train carrying gas derailed and exploded at Viareggioa in northern Italy. According to Police the carriages jumped from the tracks and crashed into several homes, setting fire to a large area of the town in the middle of the night. Emergency crews...
November 17, 2009 10:31 AM
The space shuttle Atlantis has been launched from Cape Canaverel in Florida and is heading for a rendevous with the International Space Station. It is carrying supplies and consignment of worms for scientific research. The mission will last for the next eleven days.
November 16, 2009 8:53 PM
Egypt is set to launch the world's first Arabic language internet domain. Communications minister Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be ".masr" written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as ".Egypt". Mr Kamel, who was speaking at the start of the Internet Governan...
November 16, 2009 8:52 PM
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated that nuclear rights of the Iran are non-negotiable Iranian nuclear cooperation and activities will be carried out within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency.<br/>According to Iran's PressTV, Ahamadinejad told today th...
November 16, 2009 8:04 PM
In Sri Lanka, General Sarath Fonseka today bid farewell to the army and said he will announce his future plans in a couple of days, as speculation mounted that the architect of Sri Lanka's military victory over LTTE may be the opposition candidate in the next presidential polls.<br/>P...
November 16, 2009 7:25 PM
Canada has expressed the hope that a nuclear co-operation agreement with India would be inked soon which would facilitate the development of nuclear power for civilian use. Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, said at a meeting with prominent Indian businessmen in Mumbai today that the proposed ...
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