Tweet Jodhpur: At least 35 people, mostly policemen, were injured in Rajasthan Sunday in a clash between police and villagers who were demanding arrest of criminals involved in murdering three people during a robbery Saturday, officials said. According to police, thousands of villagers gathered Sunday on the National Highway 112 near Bilara town, some 330 [...]
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Tweet Islamabad: At least 18 people were killed and more than 30 injured in a bomb blast Sunday at a religious gathering of Shia Muslims in Pakistan's Punjab province. An official confirmed it was a bomb, rejecting an earlier report that said it was a transformer explosion. The bomb was detonated by a remote controlled [...]
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Tweet Mumbai: A Norwegian ship, with 20 Indian crew members, was hijacked by Somali pirates Tuesday morning off the coast of Nigeria but freed from their control soon after by security forces, a maritime authority said here. The crew members of the ship, MV Spar Rigel, locked themselves in the citadel – a safe [...]
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Tweet Manila: At least 27 bodies have been recovered while search and rescue operations continued Saturday for the 46 missing people following a landslide which occurred in a mining village in the Philippines last Thursday, officials said Saturday. At least 23 of the bodies were already identified while the number of missing in the landslide [...]
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Tweet Chennai: At least 33 people were killed as cyclone Thane, with a wind speed of 140 kmph, hit the Tamil Nadu coast near Cuddalore Friday morning, leaving a trail of death and destruction in the state and Puducherry, officials said. The cyclone did not have much impact on Andhra Pradesh coastline. The total number [...]
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Tweet Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and 21 injured Friday evening in a powerful car bombing in Pakistan's Quetta city, media reports said. The blast took place on Arbab Karam Khan Road near Raisani Chowk, Geo News reported. The Balochistan Liberation Army has taken responsibility for the bombing. While Dawn News put the [...]
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Tweet Yangon: A huge explosion early Thursday at a warehouse on the outskirts of Yangon left at least 15 people dead, among them five women, officials said. The blast took place around 2.00 a.m. in Mingalartaungnyung, about five kilometres east of downtown Yangon. A huge fire engulfed the warehouse after the blast. The cause of [...]
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Tweet Beijing: It's not easy for women in a Chinese province to have unprotected sex and then buy morning-after pills as the government has made it compulsory to register using "real names" before every purchase. In Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province, buyers of emergency contraception are now forced to register their names, phone numbers, and [...]
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Tweet Dhaka: Bangladesh has issued an alert over Cyclone Thane that is heading towards its southeast coast. The storm was about 1,200 km from the Chittagong port, the meteorological department said Wednesday. It is likely to intensify and move in a northwestern direction, it added. Fishing boats and trawlers over north bay have been advised [...]
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Tweet Islamabad: At least five troopers were killed and 12 injured early Saturday when a suicide bomber drove his vehicle packed with explosives into a paramilitary camp in northwest Pakistan, a media report said. The dead and the injured were paramilitary soldiers, said Geo TV. The attack took place at about 6 a.m. Saturday when [...]
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