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ISLAMABAD, Dec 14 (Reuters): A Pakistani court ordered today thatfive Americans detained in the country who officials said were seeking to join up with militant...
NAIROBI, Dec 14 (Reuters): Pirates have seized an Indian dhow off the coast of Somalia in the third such incident in a week, a regional maritime official said t...
TAIPEI, Dec 14 (Reuters): Taiwan said today it would investigate reports that local firms had sold nuclear technology to Iran, which the West suspects aims to b...
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (Reuters): Iran has arrested several people over the tearing up of a picture of the Islamic Republic's late founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini d...
KATHMANDU, Dec 14, (UNI): At least ten people were killed and morethree dozen injured in a bus accident near Pokhara, 200 km westof Nepalese capital Kathmandu, ...
CHICAGO, USA, Dec 14 (UNI):The US army has announced that it will accept a second Sikh recruit,Captain Tejdeep Singh Rattan, with his Sikh identity intact. Capt...
ANTIAGO, Dec 14 (Reuters): Conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera led Chile's presidential vote and today was seen as the favorite to win a run-off and lead ...
HONG KONG, Dec 14 (Reuters): Opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong are poised to resign en masse from the city legislature in a bid to trigger what amounts to a ref...
BANGKOK, Dec 14 (Reuters): Ethnic groups in northeastern Myanmar have stepped up opium cultivation to buy weapons to defend themselves against possible attacks ...
KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN, Dec 14 (Reuters): Insurgents allied to the Taliban attacked a police post in northern Afghanistan killing eight policemen, a provincial off...
BANGKOK, Dec 14 (Reuters): A Thai court today extended the detention of the crew of a seized cargo aircraft loaded with 35 tonnes of arms from North Korea as it...
MILAN, Dec 14 (Reuters): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was rushed to hospital covered in blood with a broken nose and teeth after a man with mental p...
DUBAI, Dec 14 (Agencies): Abu Dhabi stepped in to help fellow United Arab Emirates member Dubai with a $10 billion injection, of which $4.1 billion was allocate...
KARACHI, Dec 14 (Agencies): Pakistani police Monday seized luggage and a cell phone from a hotel where three of five Americans arrested on suspicion of militant...
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Agencies): US President Barack Obama said Sunday that his decision to pour 30,000 more US troops into the war in Afghanistan was the most di...
WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Agencies): Senior US officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan’s tribal region and into a major city in an attempt t...
DUBAI, NOV 30 (Agencies): Osama bin Laden urged Europeans to break ranks with the United States and quit Afghanistan, while stressing he alone was behind the 9/...
COIMBATORE,NOV 30 (Agencies): A group of medicos, protesting the Centre's proposal to extend the five-and-a-half MBBS course by a year, today tonsured their hea...
MOSCOW, NOV 30 (Agencies): Amidst worsening ties with the US, President Vladimir Putin today signed a decree suspending Russia's obligations under the cornersto...
COLOMBO, NOV 29 (Agencies): The woman suicide bomber of the LTTE, who blew herself up outside the office of a Sri Lankan Minister and senior Tamil leader in a f...