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French Shooting Suspect Killed During Siege
March 22, 2012
A police siege in the French city of Toulouse has ended with a man suspected of killing seven people now dead, the French interior minister has said. Merah, 23, was wanted in the killings of three French paratroopers and of three students and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, in a string of [...]…
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February 27, 2012
Pakistan is more than half way through its demolition of the compound where US forces killed Osama Bin Laden, in the north-western city of Abbottabad. The security forces along with the local administration on Sunday completed demolishing the compound, where Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by US seals raid on May 2, 2011. [...]…
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Death Toll Hits 217 In Shelling Of Syria’s Homs
February 4, 2012
Hundreds of people have been killed or injured in a major army offensive in the central Syrian city of Homs, activists say. Activists accused the military of massacring women and children in the worst violence in 11 months of unrest. The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights cited witnesses as saying that hundreds were wounded in [...]…
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Gunmen Kill Three Lawyers In Karachi
January 25, 2012
Three lawyers belonging to Shia community were killed and another was injured when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle here at Pakistan Chowk area on Wednesday. A fourth lawyers is in critical condition and is undergoing surgery at the Civil Hospital. The dead lawyers include Kafeel, Shakeel and Badar Ali. The attackers escaped from the [...]…
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New Convictions Over UK ‘Racist’ Murder
January 4, 2012
Two men found guilty of the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence in south east London have been detained for life. The two men are scheduled for sentencing on Wednesday. Lawrence was an 18-year-old school student when he was stabbed to death at a bus stop in southeast London in an unprovoked attack by a gang [...]…
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Taliban ‘Confirms’ Deal To Open Qatar Office
January 3, 2012
The Taliban has confirmed it has come to an “initial agreement” to open a political office overseas as part of peace talks with the US, according to a statement. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will back the opening of a Taliban liaison office in Qatar to try to help consolidate the peace process. [...]…
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Philippines Storm Triggers Deadly Flash Floods, 180 Dead
December 17, 2011
A typhoon has hit the southern Philippines, triggering flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday. Some of the dead were swept out at sea in the worst-hit coastal cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan in the Mindanao region, [...]…
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Euro Crisis: Brussels Summit Rejects EU-Wide Treaty Change
December 9, 2011
Europe divided on Friday in a historic rift over building a fiscal union to preserve the euro, with a large majority of countries led by Germany and France agreeing to move ahead with a separate treaty, leaving Britain isolated. French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the 17 nations in the eurozone would now press ahead to [...]…
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RPPs Lacking Transparency Can be Cancelled
December 1, 2011
Chief Justice (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Tuesday during hearing of the RPP case remarked that non-implementation of judicial decisions cause anarchy in a society. The chief justice during hearing of the Rental Power Projects case also said that the President’s name should not be taken in the matter, a president inaugurate a project as…
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Blast in Peshwar’s Karkhano Market
December 1, 2011
PESHAWAR, Pakistan News: A huge explosion rocked Karkhano Market in Peshawar on Wednesday killing at least one person and injuring scores of others. The blast near a checkpost also damaged several vehicles, reports said. According to an eyewitness the blast that caused panic in the area, was happened in a car. Police and relief agencies [...]
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