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October 12, 2009 6:29 PM
North Korea has test-fired two short-range missiles off the east coast of the peninsula. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said the North had declared a "no-sail zone" off its east and west coasts for eleven days from 10th October. The launches come days after Pyongyang said it was wil...
October 12, 2009 6:27 PM
In Pakistan, unidentified gunmen today shot dead a top government official in the south-west. Police said motorcycle riders sprayed bullets at Provincial Chief Inspector of Mines, Muhammad Ashraf, as he came out of his house and was heading to his office in Quetta. Muhammad Ashraf was critically inj...
October 12, 2009 6:27 PM
An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck off the Santa Cruz Islands in Solomon Islands this afternoon. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres and about 355 kilometres north of the Vanuatu town of Luganville . There were no reports of damages or casua...
October 12, 2009 6:26 PM
A Sudanese court has upheld a death sentence against four Islamists who shot dead a US envoy on 1 January 2008. John Granville, 33, and his Sudanese driver Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama were killed as they returned from a New Year's Eve party in Khartoum. <br/><br/>Under Sudan�...
October 12, 2009 6:09 PM
In Islamabad, three more Pakistani commandos succumbed to their wounds in the hospital today, raising the death toll in the terrorist strike on the army headquarters to 22, including 11 security personnel. <br/><br/>The three commandos of the elite Special Services Group sustaine...
October 12, 2009 5:54 PM
A senior diplomat with the Pakistan High Commission died after suffering an electric shock at his residence in Vasant Vihar here last night. M Khan Afridi, political counsellor with the High Commission suffered the shock in the bathroom of his house last night and collapsed. <br/><br/...
October 12, 2009 5:49 PM
The Non Resident Nepalese Association has donated 300 lakh rupees for renovation of mourners complex at Pashupati Aryaghat area near the famous Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu. Pashupati Area Development Trust and the Association yesterday inked an agreement to this effect.<br/> <br...
October 12, 2009 4:32 PM
In Pakistan, a suicide bomber threw himself at a passing para-military convoy near a crowded market killing 41 people and wounding 50 in Shangla district in Malakand division.Witnesses said the suicide bomber blew himself up near a security forces vehicle as it was passing through a security check p...
October 12, 2009 4:29 PM
A Pakistani court today ordered quashing of two cases under an anti-terrorism law against JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed, blamed by India for masterminding 26/11 attacks. The Court said he could not be charged under the act as his outfit is not banned in the country.<br/><br/>A two-j...
October 12, 2009 3:57 PM
In Pakistan, at least 28 people were killed and over 40 injured today in a suicide attack in a market in the northwest restive Malakand area.According to reports, the suicide attacker blew himself up near a security forces vehicle in the main market at Alpurai in Shangla district. The attack occurre...
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