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September 28, 2009 7:05 PM

Strong storm hits China

Strong gale brought by tropical storm Kestana began to hit China's southernmost island province of Hainan today. The provincial meteorological station monitored the storm at 16.1 degrees north and 113.3 degrees east, and was 470 kilometres away from Hainan this morning. The station said the sto...

September 28, 2009 5:45 PM

Palestine blames Israel for increasing tension

Palestinian leaders have blamed Israel for raising tension in Jerusalem after a day of clashes at the city's most sensitive religious site. Police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse 150 Palestinian protesters who had thrown rocks at non-Muslims who entered the al-Aqsa mosque compound. ...

September 28, 2009 5:45 PM

Merkel to form centre-right coalition in Germany

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to hold talks on forming a centre right coalition after her sweeping win in Sunday's general elections. Mrs. Merkel said the priority of her second term in office will be to return prosperity to Europe's largest economy. She said a coalition between t...

September 28, 2009 5:20 PM

Iran test fires long-range misssile

Iran today test-fired its two long-range missiles which it says could hit targets in arch-foe Israel, as the Revolutionary Guards staged war games for the second straight day. The exercises coincide with heightened tension with the West after the UN nuclear watchdog revealed on Friday that Tehran wa...

September 28, 2009 2:45 PM

Pak court admits petition filed by Saeed

A Pakistani court on Monday admitted a petition filed by banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed challenging two cases registered against him by Police under the Anti-Terrorism Act for inciting people to wage jehad. After a preliminary hearing, a two-judge bench of the Lahore High Court is...

September 28, 2009 2:38 PM

Iran test-fired long-range Shahab-3 missile

Iran has test fired long-range Shahab-3 missile on Monday during its military exercise. According to Iranian television PressTV, the range of Shahab-3 missiles are 1,300 to 2,000 kilometers. It added that several models of medium-range Shahab-1 and Shahab-2 missiles were also tested during the milit...

September 28, 2009 1:47 PM

Iran test-fired long-range Shahab-3 missile

Iran on Monday test-fired its long-range Shahab-3 missile. The exercise comes at a time of heightened tension with the West after the UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday that the Islamic republic was building a second uranium enrichment plant. Iran's English-language state-owned Press TV channel...

September 28, 2009 1:01 PM

Pakistani court summons former Pak President and his key aides

A Pakistani court has summoned former President Pervez Musharraf and several of his key aides to appear before it on October 7 for the hearing of a petition seeking their trial in the murder of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. A division bench of the Balochistan High Court sent notices t...

September 28, 2009 12:47 PM

Suicide bomber kills at least five persons

In Pakistan, at least five persons were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber targeted an anti-Taliban tribal elder in a volatile region in the North West Frontier Province. The suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the car of the pro-government tribal elder Malik Abdul Hakim ne...

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