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Three Indonesian students beheaded

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 4 min read

JAKARTA, Oct 29 (Reuters): Three teenage Christian women were beheaded today by two assailants wearing helmets in eastern Indonesia as they walked to school nea...

Never surf a tsunami, California town says

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 1 min read

LOS ANGELES, Oct 29 (Reuters): An exclusive California beach enclave has raised eyebrows by passing out tsunami safety brochures that warn residents, in capital...

Musharraf extends gratitude to India for relief support

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Oct 29 (UNI): Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf has thanked Indians and religious leaders for extending their moral and material support to...

Sinclair's Indian bike ride to help terminally ill children

Staff Reporter · Oct 30, 2005 · 4 min read

LONDON, Oct 29 (UNI): Two brothers of Haltwhistle, who work as drivers, will embark on a gruelling 1000-km ride on a bike in India next month, to help terminall...

No formal invitation yet for Musharraf: Pakistan

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2005 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, March 10 (UNI) Pakistan today said it is yet to receive a formal invitation from India for President GeneralPervez Musharraf to witnesses a match of ...

Pakistan proposes new dates for the SAARC summit

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2005 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, March 10 (UNI) Pakistan has proposed to convene the 13th Saarc summit in mid-April, a leading Pakistani newspaper reported today. Dawn quoting "well-...

Recall of ambassadors reflects deep concern: US

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 1 min read

WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (UNI): The recall of ambassadors by United States, UK, India and France was an "indication of the deep concern in the international community...

Nepal king names two loyalists as deputies

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 4 min read

KATHMANDU, Feb 15 (Reuters): Nepali King Gyanendra named two former royalist prime ministers to be deputies of his ruling council, state radio said yesterday, i...

China mine accident kills 200

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 5 min read

BEIJING, Feb 15 (Reuters): A gas explosion in a coal mine in China's northeastern province of Liaoning has killed as many as 203 miners in the worst disaster to...

Another strike in Bangladesh; political foes battle

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 7 min read

DHAKA, Feb 15 (Reuters): The eighth general strike in just three weeks largely paralysed Bangladesh today and the country's main Opposition party said there wou...

Singh arives in Kabul; Flight diverted midair

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

KABUL, Feb 15 (UNI): After much confusion and initial announcement that the Afghanistan-leg of the three-nation two-day visit was cancelled due to bad weather i...

Israel plans new West Bank settlement

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

JERUSALEM, Feb 15 (Reuters): Israel plans to build a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank that could house settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip after a with...

Nepal bristles at criticism, says fights terrorism

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 3 min read

KATHMANDU, Feb 15 (Reuters): Nepal today rejected international criticism of King Gyanendra's decision to assume full power, saying the step was crucial to figh...

Tsunami survivor lived on jackfruit for 36 days

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

CAMPBELL BAY, Feb 15 (UNI): Eighteen-year-old Jessie who was rescued 36 days after the killer tsunami struck this archipelago, had survived only on jackfruit an...

China mine accident kills over than 200

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 5 min read

BEIJING, Feb 15 (Reuters): A gas explosion in a coal mine in China's northeastern rust-belt province of Liaoning killed at least 203 workers in the worst disast...

Natwar Singh hands over 49 vehicles to ANA

Staff Reporter · Feb 16, 2005 · 2 min read

KABUL, Feb 15 (UNI): External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh today handed over 49 of the 300 vehicles committed to the Afghan National Army (ANA) as part of Indi...

Briton charged with Indian diplomat's murder

Staff Reporter · Dec 5, 2004 · 1 min read

LONDON, Nov 5 (UNI) A British man has been charged with the murderof Deputy Indian High Commissioner Ravindra Mhatre who waskindnapped in 1984 by a group demand...

US non-committal on permanent UN SC seat for India

Staff Reporter · Dec 5, 2004 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (UNI): The United States is non-committal on its support to India's bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Asked about India's c...

Musharraf cautious on U N reform plan

Staff Reporter · Dec 5, 2004 · 2 min read

MEXICO CITY, Dec 3 (Reuters): Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Mexican President Vicente Fox have expressed backing for reforming the United Nations but...

US forces search Gilgit, Baltistan mountains for Osama

Staff Reporter · Dec 5, 2004 · 5 min read

GILGIT, Dec 3 (UNI): The American forces have intensified their search for the world's most wanted terrorists, Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri and...

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