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Iran will never abandon nuclear work-Khamenei

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 1 min read

TEHRAN, Jan 8 (Reuters): Iran's highest authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said today Tehran would never yield to international pressure to depri...

Saudi boy hangs self to mimic Saddam - paper

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 1 min read

RIYADH, Jan 8 (Reuters): A Saudi boy who hanged himself in northeastern Saudi Arabia may have been influenced by television coverage of Saddam Hussein's executi...

22 heroin packets found in dead body's stomach in Israel

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 1 min read

JERUSALEM, Jan 3 (Agencies): An Israeli national, who died in China recently, had 22 packets of heroin in his stomach, a media report said. The drugs, 400 grams...

Iraq: 12,000 civilians killed in '06

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 2 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (Agencies): Iraq reported Tuesday that about 12,000 civilians were killed last year - the third full year since the US-led invasion - with a dram...

Pakistan man loses ears, nose for love marriage

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 2 min read

MULTAN, Jan 3 (Reuters): Armed men cut off the ears and nose of a Pakistani man who married one of their tribe for love after he and his family refused to hand ...

Learn lessons from Iraq: Ahmadinejad

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 1 min read

TEHRAN, Jan 3 (Agencies): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned American and British leaders to learn a lesson from the execution of former Iraqi preside...

Ban lands into controversy over Saddam execution issue

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 2 min read

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 3 (Agencies): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon landed himself into controversy right on his first full day in office over, what observers sa...

Videocon-Daewoo deal in jeopardy

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 2 min read

SEOUL, Jan 3 (Agencies): A deal to sell South Korea's third-largest electronics maker to a consortium led by India's Videocon Industries is in jeopardy because ...

Anger as Indonesia resumes search for airliner

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 3 min read

MAKASSAR, Indonesia, Jan 3 (Reuters): Indonesian rescuers launched new sea, land and air searches today for a missing plane with 102 people aboard as anger grew...

Iraqis were responsible for Saddam hanging -US general

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 1 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 3 (Reuters): A senior U S general said today U S forces left all security measures at Saddam Hussein's execution, including searching witnesses for...

Dubai court acquits an Indian of bribery charges

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 1 min read

DUBAI, Jan 3 (UNI):: An Indian has been acquitted by a Dubai court of charges of offering 55,000 Dirham as bribe to a government official. Manohar Ratu, who was...

Sri Lanka bombs rebels, UN urges end to fighting

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, Jan 3 (Reuters): Sri Lankan jets bombed Tamil Tiger rebel positions today, the military said, one day after a raid in the northwest of the island which...

Oman, an attraction for Indian Filmmakers

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 1 min read

DUBAI, Jan 3 (UNI):: Oman is emerging as a favourite locale for Indian filmmakers because of its natural diversity and clean environment, say film producers. Th...

Police discipline hearings to be held in public

Staff Reporter · Jan 4, 2007 · 3 min read

LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters): Disciplinary hearings for police officers accused of serious neglect or incompetence will be heard in public for the first time, the In...

Indian one-day governor in US state

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 3 min read

NEW YORK, Dec 29 (UNI): For the first time, an Indian-American has become the governor of a US state, though for a day. An immigrant from India, Kris Kolluri, b...

Foreign troops will flee Afghanistan-Taliban chief

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 2 min read

KABUL, Dec 29 (Reuters): Foreign troops will be forced out of Afghanistan in the face of Taliban attacks, the Islamic group's fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad O...

Pakistani relatives protest over missing detainees

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 2 min read

RAWALPINDI, Dec 29 (Agencies): Pakistani police broke up a protest on Thursday by dozens relatives of people who have disappeared, apparently after being detain...

Muslim pilgrims say safety in God's hands at haj

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 3 min read

MECCA, Dec 29 (Agencies): Nazir Hussein's uncle and aunt were among 362 Muslim pilgrims who were killed in a stampede in Mecca in January. But that has not stop...

Saddam legal team asked to pick up personal effects

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 2 min read

AMMAN, Dec 29 (Agencies): The US military has asked lawyers for Saddam Hussein to pick up the former Iraqi dictator's personal effects in advance of his executi...

Border agreements with India, Bhutan pending: China

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2006 · 2 min read

BEIJING, Dec 29 (Agencies): China has signed border agreements with 11 of its 13 neighbours barring India and Bhutan, with whom negotiations are on to settle th...

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