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United States military and the Afghan police officials announced that an American military convoy was attacked in a crowded market on Thursday. The attack came a day after the suicide bombing in Afghanistan and killed one soldier and 18 civilians. A Toyota Corolla approached the military convoy and blew off at around 8 a.m., Among the murdered civilians there... |
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co said Wednesday that it was scrapping its 5.85-billion-dollar bid for US memory card maker SanDisk Corp, citing its third-quarter loss and a partnership with Samsung's rival Toshiba Corp.
Lee Yoon Woo, Samsung's chief executive officer, said in a letter to SanDisk's board that the Milpitas,...
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sacked his chief of intelligence, Tawfiq Tirawi, officials at his office confirmed Wednesday.
Abbas issued a presidential decree, appointing Tirawi, 61, as a security advisor to the president with the rank of minister, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative political bloc has been given a boost by the government's 480 billion bank (650 billion dollars) rescue plan, a key opinion poll released Wednesday showed.
The weekly Forsa opinion poll, published in Stern magazine and on the RTL television station, showed Merkel's Christian Democrats and their...
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US-led coalition forces mistakenly bombed an Afghan national army position in Khost province early Wednesday and killed at least nine soldiers, while police claimed to have killed more than 35 Taliban rebels in a southern district, official said.
The airstrike occurred in Sayedkhail district of the south-eastern province of Khost when...
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Indonesian police said Wednesday they arrested five Muslim extremists suspected of plotting to attack a major fuel depot in the capital Jakarta.
National police spokesman Brigadier General Sulistyo Ishaq said anti-terror operations also netted bomb-making materials, weapons and ammunition during a raid Tuesday morning at a house in...
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Indian equities slid 5 per cent Wednesday, tracking weak global cues.
The benchmark Sensex index, which had traded firmly in the last two sessions and gained 460 points Tuesday, dropped 513.49 points, or 4.81 per cent, to close at 10,169.9.
Metal and real-estate shares led declines.
The broader 50-share Nifty index fell...
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Iran's speaker of parliament Ali Larijani, in an interview published in Bahrain on Wednesday, criticized US policies on the Middle East conflict and the situation in Iraq.
"The West needs to reconsider what they say. The top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice, during the Israeli aggression against Lebanon which lasted 33 days,...
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Singapore Petroleum Company Limited and Eni International B V, equal joint venture partners in ItalSing Petroleum Company Pte Ltd, Wednesday sold a combined 55 per cent stake in ItalSing to Nippon Oil (Asia) Pte Ltd of Japan.
SPC and ENI will each continue to hold 22.5 per cent in ItalSing Petroleum, SPC said in a statement.
Nippon...
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Five people were killed and nine injured in attacks in Mosul and Baghdad Wednesday.
In western Mosul, four civilians were killed and three injured in a car bomb explosion, a police source said. He told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that the explosion occurred in the al-Thawra neighborhood.
Mosul, the capital city of Nineveh,...
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At least 24 people including 23 women were drowned when an overcrowded boat capsized in India's eastern state of Bihar on Wednesday, police said.
The boat ferrying 28 agricultural workers capsized on a small river in Khagaria district located over 200 kilometres east of state capital Patna.
"As the boat approached the banks,...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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