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October 5, 2009 5:29 AM
In Greece, the Opposition Socialist Party has won the general elections. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis conceded defeat after early results showed the Socialists under George Papandreou have a lead of more than eight per cent, enough to give them absolute majority in Parliament. <br/>�...
October 5, 2009 12:27 AM
British Defence and Home Ministers will arrive in Islamabad on Monday for meetings with the top Pakistani leadership to take stock of the regional security situation and the war against terror. British Home Secretary Alan Johnson and Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth are scheduled to meet President As...
October 5, 2009 12:26 AM
Hundreds of communists and opposition activists have marched through Moscow to commemorate those killed when then-President Boris Yeltsin sent troops to crush a rebellious parliament 16 years ago. The demonstrators carried red flags and portraits of the more than 100 people killed in the street clas...
October 5, 2009 12:26 AM
Israel has released a Hamas MP who had been held in prison for more than three years. Palestinian and Israeli officials disclosed this in Nablus on Sunday. Yaron Zamir, a prison service spokesman said MP Raed al-Amla returned to his home village of Qabalan south of the West Bank city of Nablus after...
October 4, 2009 11:35 PM
The Spanish government says a hijacked trawler has been taken to port in Somalia with pirates still in charge of the vessel. Rescue force commander Gen Jaime Dominguez said in Madrid on Sunday that the Spanish owned fishing boat Alakrana was hijacked by pirates on Friday. It is being monitored by tw...
October 4, 2009 11:24 PM
In Indonesia, search teams lost hope of finding any more survivors under the rubble left by a massive earthquake, as torrential rains on Sunday held up aid delivery in the remote hills of western part of the country where several villages were wiped out. Rescue teams instead focused on retrieving th...
October 4, 2009 7:58 PM
Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor reached Bahrain today on an official visit. According to diplomatic sources, the Minister today addressed a group of Bahraini business and Industry organized by Bahrain-India Society on the issue of Expanding Horizons of Cooperation between I...
October 4, 2009 7:47 PM
In Bangladesh, the Supreme Court today constituted a five-member bench for final appeal hearing in the murder trial of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from tomorrow. The hearing starts eight and half years after 12 ex-Army officers were awarded death penalties in the case.Justice Mo...
October 4, 2009 7:21 PM
In Nepal, top leaders of three largest political parties - Nepali Congress, CPN(UML) and the opposition Unified CPN(Maoist) have expressed hope that the prevailing political deadlock will be resolved soon to take forward the task of constitution writing and the peace process.Talking to newsmen at a ...
October 4, 2009 7:16 PM
In the Philippines, landslides buried two families today who took shelter in their homes to escape Asia's latest deadly typhoon Parma , which killed at least 16 people and left more than a dozen villages flooded . Typhoon Parma cut a destructive path across the northern Philippines but spared t...
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