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Quake claims Haiti’s best and brightest
31 views. News posted yesterday. The Jan. 12 earthquake disproportionately killed young professionals, and compounding the loss is a quickening brain drain of people with the ability and means to leave a ravaged country. ... read full news >>
Record 237 entries for Nobel Prize
21 views. News posted yesterday. Agence France Presse OSLO: A record 237 candidates are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said today, with Chinese dissidents and the founders of the Internet known to be on the list. “The final number of candidates is 237, including 38 organisations,” Geir Lun ... read full news >>
Britain's Fritzl raped daughters for over 25yrs
27 views. News posted yesterday. AFP LONDON: Two British women who were raped and abused by their father for over 25 years, becoming pregnant 18 times, have won an apology from local authorities for failing to prevent the serial incest. In a case compared with that of Austria's notorious Josef Fritzl, the 56-year-old man, who cannot be named for ... read full news >>
Taliban claim suicide attack on NATO base
20 views. News posted yesterday. The Taliban claims responsibility for a suicide bombing inside a U.S.-Afghan base in eastern Afghanistan that killed two NATO service members. ... read full news >>
Dalai Lama: China aims to annihilate Buddhism
22 views. News posted yesterday. The Dalai Lama lashed out at China on Wednesday, accusing it of trying to "annihilate Buddhism" in Tibet and rebuffing all his efforts to reach a compromise over the disputed Himalayan region. ... read full news >>
7 held in Ireland over Swedish cartoonist plot
37 views. News posted Mar 10, 2010. AFP DUBLIN: Irish police have arrested seven Muslims suspected of conspiracy to murder over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, they said. The four men and three women were arrested Tuesday in the southern towns of Cork and Waterford in an operation c ... read full news >>
Newsweek: Why Merkel doesn’t want to lead Europe
29 views. News posted Mar 10, 2010. Europe needs a leader, but the likely candidate doesn’t want to take the job. ... read full news >>
Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from election
28 views. News posted Mar 10, 2010. A new election law issued by Myanmar's ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political party and thus running in upcoming elections, state-run newspapers said Wednesday. ... read full news >>
N.Korea says ready for both dialogue and war with US
27 views. News posted Mar 09, 2010. AFP SEOUL: North Korea said Tuesday it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent in response to US military threats and is prepared for both dialogue and war with Washington. The comments from a foreign ministry spokesman follow Monday's launch of a major US and South Korean military exercise which the North depict ... read full news >>
Women quota bill triggers uproar in Indian parliament
23 views. News posted Mar 09, 2010. Agence France Presse NEW DELHI: An attempt by India’s government to pass legislation reserving a third of all seats for women in parliament provoked an uproar today as opposition politicians forced repeated adjournments. The government had been confident that the Women Reservation Bill, which has been stall ... read full news >>
Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51
31 views. News posted Mar 09, 2010. AP OKCULAR: Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing 51 people. The damage appeared worst in the Kurdish village of Okcular, which ... read full news >>
Poker tourney robbers still on the run
22 views. News posted Mar 09, 2010. German police are hunting for four bandits who stormed a poker tournament in Berlin and made off with $328,000 in jackpot money in a brazen daylight heist. ... read full news >>
Cyprus police say found corpse could be ex-leader
21 views. News posted Mar 09, 2010. Cypriot police acting on a tipoff found a body at a Nicosia cemetery that they believe could be the stolen corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos, a spokesman said on Monday. ... read full news >>
टर्कीमा शक्तिशाली भूकम्प
7 views. News posted Mar 08, 2010. पूर्वी टर्कीमा आज बिहानै छ रेक्टर स्केलको शक्तिशाली भूकम्प भएको एएफपीले जनाएको छ। भूकम्प स्थानीय समय अनुसार बिहान ४ बजेर ३२ मिनेट (नेपाली समय बिहान ८ बजेर १७ मिनेटमा) गएको हो। भूकम्पको केन्द्रबिन्दू इलाजिगको काराकोकन नगर भएको इस्तानबुलस्थित कान्दिली अब्जर्भेटरीले जनाएको छ। क्षतिको विस्तृत विवरण आउन बाँकी छ। हालैका दिनमा हाइटी र चिलीमा भएका शक्तिशाल ... read full news >>
कराचीमा विस्फोट, ११ को मृत्यु, ६० भन्दा बढी घाइते
2 views. News posted Mar 08, 2010. पाकिस्तानको दोस्रो ठूलो सहर लाहौरमा  शक्तिशाली विस्फोट हुँदा ११ जनाको मृत्यु भएको छ। घटनामा ६० भन्दा बढी घाइते भएको एएफपीले जनाएको छ। विस्फोटक पदार्थ भरिएको गाडी भित्तामा ठोक्काएर गरिएको विस्फोटबाट जमिनमा ठूलो खाल्डो परेको र आकाशमा धुँवाको मुस्लो उडेको अनि उद्दारकर्मीहरुले हातैले भग्नावशेष हटाइ एम्बुलेन्सतिर घाइतेहरुलाई दौडाउँदै गरेको दृश्य टेलिभिज ... read full news >>
SKorea, US start drills despite NKorea's threat
2 views. News posted Mar 08, 2010. AFP SEOUL: South Korea and the U.S. kicked off annual military exercises Monday, a day after North Korea denounced the training as a rehearsal for invasion and threatened to attack the allies. About 18,000 American soldiers and an undisclosed number of South Korean troops are taking part in 11 days of drills acro ... read full news >>
Heavy security is new normal in China's Tibet
2 views. News posted Mar 08, 2010. Chinese troops with automatic rifles now patrol the Tibetan quarter of the capital of Chinese-controlled Tibet — as ever-present as Buddhist pilgrims. ... read full news >>
Central Nigeria on red alert after over 100 killed
2 views. News posted Mar 08, 2010. AFP Nigeria: Nigeria's acting president put security forces on alert after machete wielding gangs massacred at least 100 people, mainly women and children, near the central city of Jos, officials said. Witnesses described how victims were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attacke ... read full news >>
Aftershocks weaken Chile’s damaged buildings
3 views. News posted Mar 07, 2010. At least seven significant aftershocks shake  Chile, a week after the powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake. No additional damage or injuries are reported. ... read full news >>
Maoists aim to topple India by 2050: Pillai
3 views. News posted Mar 07, 2010. Agence France Presse NEW DELHI: India’s Maoist rebels aim to overthrow the Indian state by 2050, a top government official was quoted today as saying, warning security forces faced a “long, bloody war” to defeat the rebels. The Maoists are taking a gradual approach to building their forces for ... read full news >>
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