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Pig waste avalanche blocks China town taps

Staff Reporter · Dec 16, 2005 · 2 min read

BEIJING, Dec 15 (Reuters): Taps were turned back on in a rural area of southwest China this week after pig excrement flooded a local river and forced water supp...

US lobbied against World Bank guarantee for Iran

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 3 min read

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) As the World Bank prepared to approve its first guarantee for an investment in Iran, the United States lobbied hard to convince othe...

Suspected rebels kill five Sri Lanka soldiers

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, Dec 6 (Reuters) Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed five Sri Lankan soldiers in a second claymore mine attack in the island"s north in three days, the ...

U S closes Manila embassy after threat

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 2 min read

MANILA, Dec 6 (Reuters) The U S embassy temporarily shut its doors today after a security threat, with Philippine police warning of potential suicide bombings b...

Watchdog urges Pakistan to find missing reporter

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Pakistan to act swiftly to find a journalist kidnapped after reporting on a ...

Sikh student acquitted of charges for possessing "Kirpan"

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 2 min read

New York, Dec 6 (UNI) A Sikh student of Wayne State University, charged with violation of the local Knife Ordinance Code for keeping a"Kirpan", was acquitted fo...

Indian pays an eye for an eye

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 1 min read

Dubai, Dec 6 (UNI) An Indian jailed in Saudi Arabia is set to have his one eye gouged out as punishment for partially blinding a Saudi national in an altercatio...

1-Police say 20 bodies found in western Iraq

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 1 min read

FALLUJA, Iraq, Dec 6 (Reuters) Police said today they had found the bodies of 20 people dumped in two separate locations in an area of western Iraq well-known f...

Saddam trial halts over witness protection hitch

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 1 min read

BAGHDAD, Dec 6 (Reuters) The first woman witness today took the stand against Saddam Hussein, hidden behind a high curtain, but problems with equipment intended...

Prepared to face any LTTE threat; Gen Fonseka

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 2 min read

Colombo, Dec 6 (UNI) Dispelling fears that the ongoing sporadic claymore blast incidents in the Jaffna peninsula would drag the country back into a full scale b...

Rice says US rectifies mistakes in terror war

Staff Reporter · Dec 7, 2005 · 2 min read

BERLIN, Dec 6 (Reuters) US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today that Washington would work to rectify any mistakes it made in its war on terror, but d...

India-US Defence Policy Group meets in Washington

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (UNI): A three-day meeting of India and US experts ended here after exchanging views on ways to strengthening cooperation in defense supplies...

US, China sign agreement to thwart nuke material smuggle

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (UNI): The United States and China signed an agreement over the weekend to help thwart smuggling of nuclear and other radioactive material. U...

World opposes Iran making nuclear fuel-EU draft

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 2 min read

VIENNA, Nov 24 (Reuters): The UN nuclear watchdog's governing board has reached a "broad consensus" that Iran should not be allowed to pursue nuclear enrichment...

Canada to hold inquiry into Air India bombing

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 3 min read

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 24 (Reuters): Canada will hold an inquiry into whether it could have prevented the 1985 Air India attack and then bungled the i...

Car bomb kills 30 in Baghdad

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 2 min read

BAGHDAD, Nov 24 (Reuters): A car bomb blew up outside a hospital where Iraqi police were gathered in a town south of Baghdad today, killing 31 people and woundi...

Imran to play new innings as UK varsity chancellor

Staff Reporter · Nov 25, 2005 · 3 min read

LONDON, Nov 24 (Agencies): Former Pakistan cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan is all set to begin a new innings when he is installed as Chancellor of the Un...

For Pakistan fort, quake succeeds where invaders fail

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 3 min read

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Oct 29 (Reuters): Invaders over the centuries failed to bring down the walls of the Red Fort in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, but the massi...

Large number of Indians in Gulf under mental stress

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 1 min read

DUBAI, Oct 29 (UNI): A large number of Indian expatriates in the UAE, suffer from what is termed as "visa neurosis" because of anxieties over job security and d...

Pakistan bank warns on quake cost to govt

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 3 min read

KARACHI, Oct 29 (Reuters): Pakistan's central bank said on Saturday the government's fiscal deficit may widen due to the cost of rebuilding after the massive ea...

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