Tweet Chennai: India's second largest car maker Hyundai Motor India Ltd. (HMIL) will be expanding its capacity by 40,000 units next year while waiting for clarity on fuel pricing to put up up a diesel engine plant, said a company official Monday. "We will expand our annual production capacity to 670,000 units from the current [...]
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Tweet Washington: Hundreds of people were arrested at protests against corporate greed in cities across the US, police said Sunday. About 175 people were arrested early Sunday in Chicago, where a march was held around Grant Park. "The whole world is watching", protesters chanted as they marched, referring to the demonstrations against the Vietnam War [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Nine people, including five children, were killed when a fire broke out in a house in Russia's Siberia early Monday, officials said. The fire broke out around 12.30 a.m. in Nizhnaya Poima village in Krasnoyarsk region. Related News StoriesRussia plans new Mars probe in 2018Drug money damages world economy by $2 trillion annually17 [...]
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Tweet Mexico City: Twenty people were killed Sunday in a mudslide triggered by torrential rains in El Salvador, Xinhua reported. Rain-related deaths in the country increased to 27 after Sunday's mudslide, said civil protection director Jorge Mendez. Weather officials forecast heavy rains to continue in Central America. Related News Stories23 die as hurricane rains hit [...]
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Tweet Minsk: The Belarusian government hopes to get a loan of $3-7 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Belarusian Prima Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich met an IMF delegation led by Christopher Jarvis to discuss financial aid to crisis-hit Belarus, the press service of the country's Council of Ministers said. "The (Belarusian) government confirmed it was [...]
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Tweet Mexico City: A fight among inmates at a prison in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas Saturday left 20 dead and 12 injured, officials said. The state's Public Safety Secretariat said in a communique that the incident occurred early Saturday when a fight broke out between two inmates and soon other convicts jumped into [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the country's system of public administration should be changed, and offered to establish a 'large government', which will cooperate with the ruling party and public representatives. "It will act in cooperation with the ruling party, which may form such a government, with United Russia, the civil society, [...]
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Tweet Hong Kong: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted south of the Fiji Islands Sunday, said the US Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 6.24 (Beijing time) Sunday, Xinhua reported. It's epicentre, with a depth of 153.20 km, was initially determined to be at 25.6641 degrees south latitude and 177.4509 degrees west [...]
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Tweet Moscow: At least 70 people, including police, were injured in Rome as protests turned violent during demonstrations against global financial policies, the Italian media said Saturday. The demonstration in Rome gathered a thick crowd of 100,000 people Saturday afternoon. This is when thousands of people across the world took to the streets in solidarity [...]
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Tweet London: British royal couple Prince William and Kate Middleton have helped to raise 625,000 pounds for a charity, after hosting a special dinner here. Dailystar.co.uk reports that they welcomed guests to the 100 Women in Hedge Funds gala at St. James' Palace Thursday to benefit the Child Bereavement Charity, of which the prince is [...]
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