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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...