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October 3, 2009 6:38 PM

Suu Kyi meets Myanmar Junta minister

Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held a rare meeting with a minister of the ruling junta today, a day after a court rejected her appeal against extended house arrest. The detained opposition leader met Aung Kyi, the Labour Minister and official liaison between herself and the government. ...

October 3, 2009 5:01 PM

Aid flows into quake-hit Sumatra

International aid has started arriving in Sumatra as concern grows that remote areas may have been devastated by Wednesday's powerful earthquake. British, Australian and South Korean rescuers have arrived and the EU and Russia are also sending help. More than 1,100 people are known to have died...

October 3, 2009 4:58 PM

Atleast 34 killed in North Yemen clashes

In Yemen, at least 34 people were killed in clashes between the rebels and the army in the north. Reports from the capital Sanaa says, 28 of those killed were Shiite rebels. Four Yemeni soldiers and two tribesmen were also killed in the latest fighting on the seventh week of the army offensive. Saba...

October 3, 2009 4:54 PM

Typhoon Parma slams into Philippines

Typhoon Parma slammed into the storm-ravaged Philippines this afternoon, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate for safer shelter. Parma had maximum sustained winds of 148 km per hour with gusts as high as 185 km per hour as it made landfall in a rural region of fishermen and farmers in Luz...

October 3, 2009 2:20 PM

Bus accident claims 17 lives in China

In China,seventeen people were killed and fifty four others injured when an overcrowded bus in which they were travelling crashed near a village in China's Hunan Province. According to the official Xinhua news agency , nine people including the driver were killed on the spot, while eight others...

October 3, 2009 1:57 PM

Pak court put off trial of seven suspects in connection with Mumbai attacks

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today put off for a week the trial of seven suspects, including LeT's operations chief Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, in connection with the Mumbai attacks.The judge conducting the trial within the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi has imposed ...

October 3, 2009 9:05 AM

Court in Burma rejects an appeal for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

A court in Burma has rejected an appeal for the release of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Her lawyers say they will appeal to a higher court.<br/>Lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi say a district court in Rangoon Friday rejected their appeal for her release.<br/> <br/...

October 3, 2009 5:53 AM

Four NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, four NATO soldiers including three from US were killed in the latest incidents of violence. Two US soldiers were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber struck a convoy of US forces in southern Afghanistan. One US solider was killed when Taliban militants fired rocket-propelled grenad...

October 3, 2009 5:44 AM

Pak: Security forces killed 33 militants in Swat valley

Pakistani security forces have killed 33 militants and captured 11 during operations in the restive Swat valley and the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. The military authorities said in Islamabad today that twenty-seven militants, including two commanders, were killed during an operation by secur...

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