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ISLAMABAD, Oct 30 (UNI): Eighty-odd suspected militants were killed when Pakistani security forces carried out an anti-terror operation in the country’s tribal ...
DHAKA, Oct 30 (Agencies): Security forces were put on alert in Bangladesh today after President Iajuddin Ahmed took charge of the caretaker government, triggeri...
ALGIERS, Oct 30 (Reuters): Two people were killed and 17 wounded when Algerian Islamist rebels set off explosives-laden vehicles outside two police stations eas...
LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters): Britain is moving most civilian staff from its consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to the airport because of safety concerns...
SOKOTO, Nigeria, Oct 30 (Reuters): Thousands of tearful Nigerian Muslims gathered to mourn today at the palace of their traditional ruler, the Sultan of Sokoto,...
KATHMANDU, Oct 30 (UNI): The Nepal government has appointed former Home Secretary Bhojraj Pokharel as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) as part of the p...
DUBAI, Mar 13 (UNI): Iran has expressed the hope that the proposed seven billion dollar gas pipeline connecting the country to Pakistan and India would be reali...
ISLAMABAD, Mar 13 (UNI): China has invited Pakistan PresidentPervez Musharraf to attend the sixth Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, scheduled to t...
PORT LOUIS, Mar 13 (UNI): The moments were laden with emotion and poignancy as President APJ Abdul Kalam today visited the 'Apravasi Ghat', the site of the form...
LAHORE, Pakistan, Mar 13 (Reuters): Police in Pakistan's second city detained more than 1,000 people at the weekend for flying kites in defiance of a newly impo...
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan, Mar 13 (Reuters): Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants today said thousands of Afghans thought to be liv...
DUBAI, Mar 13 (UNI): Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee has handed over a letter from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Oman's Sultan Qaboos Bin Said on deepening...
HARDOI, UP, Mar 13 (UNI): Body of a World War II veteran has been lying unclaimed at the district hospital mortuary since Saturday. Parmeshwar Deen Singh died a...
BEIJING, Mar 13 (Reuters): A blast at a Chinese coal mine trapped 25 people today, the official Xinhua news agency said, the most recent in a series of accident...
THE HAGUE, Mar 13 (Reuters): Blood tests showed Slobodan Milosevic took drugs to worsen his health and bolster his case for treatment in Russia, a Dutch medical...
KATHMANDU, Feb 12 (UNI) At a time when army has been mobilised to suppress the peaceful demonstration in Nepal, Amnesty International has called the internation...
KATHMANDU, Dec 15 (Reuters): Nepali soldiers opened fire on a group of people near a temple just outside Kathmandu, killing at least 11 people overnight, offici...
BANDA ACEH, Dec 15 (Reuters): One moment Sartinah Fatar is painting her lovely new traditional Acehnese house, chattering happily to her husband. The next she's...
BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters): China was upset by a shipment of donations from a U S church to Chinese orphans containing expired medical equipment and stained bedd...
HONG KONG, Dec 15 (UNI): The European Union today rejected the demand from India and Brazil to include the developing countries in the "Development Package (DP)...