Posted in International Issues, Terrorism on Apr 1st, 2012
Tweet Bomb Blast in Thailand Injuring Over 110 People, Militants planned deadly attack in the troubled south Thailand, killing 11people and wounded 110 in a car bomb targeted buyers before lunch time on Saturday. Said district police chief Colonel Kritsada Kaewchandee first batch of explosivesplanted inside a parked pickup truck exploded in an area of restaurants and shops in abusy area of the city of Yala, the main trading center for a boycott of the troubledsouthern Thailand. About 20 minutes later, a second bomb exploded car just as spectators gathered at the blast site, causing most of the victims. ”This is the worst attack in recent years,” saidColonel Pramote promi, deputy spokesman for the agency and regional security.
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Posted in International Issues on Mar 14th, 2012
Tweet Tsunami warning in Japan after earthquake of 6.8 , Japan has issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday after the earthquake measuring 6.8 struck off the eastern coast, warning of a wave of up to 50 centimeters (20 inches), andurging people to evacuate their homes. Gave the Meteorological Agency to warn of the tsunami after the quake hit some 210 km(130 miles) off the northern island of Hokkaido. But he said the American observers, there was no threat to the Pacific Tsunami scale. The agency said it is expected that the first [...]
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Posted in International Issues, Iran, Israel on Mar 14th, 2012
Tweet How Isreal Plans to Attack Iran Leaked Plan With Maps, Late in Iran in a dark night, moonlit or cloudy heavy. Suddenly the silence was broken by sonic booms, followed by the sound of jets roaring overhead.
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Posted in International Issues, News on Mar 14th, 2012
Tweet Police said the bus crashed into a tunnel in Switzerland, killing 28 people, including 22 children, on Tuesday night. Police and another 24 children were injured in the wreckage.
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Tweet Pentagon:Looking forward to work with new ISI chief.The US is looking forward to work with the new head of Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan, Pentagon said, noting the US-Pak relationship is critical for the region and Afghanistan. “We look forward to working with the new chief,” the Pentagon spokesman, Navy Captain John Kirby, said yesterday, when asked about announcement [...]
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Tweet Lorax trumps John Carter at box office.Dr Seuss’ The Lorax, a film about the hazards of industrialised society, topped the box office for a second consecutive week, earning $39.1 million in the US and Canadian ticket sales over the weekend, industry estimates showed. In Pakistan also, the film did reasonably well, especially over the weekend, [...]
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Tweet Very sad if India boycotted London Olympics: British PM.British prime minister David Cameron has said he would be “very sad” if India boycotted the London Olympics following the row over sponsorship of the event by Dow Chemicals, linked to the Bhopal Gas tragedy of 1984.
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Tweet 9/11 mastermind set to face US military court.Nine years after his arrest in Pakistan, self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Mohammed could soon be back in court for the much-awaited “trial of the century.”
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Posted in International Issues, Iran, News, USA on Mar 9th, 2012
Tweet Clash with Iran could see use of huge, new US bomb.A 30,000-pound (13,600-kg) bunker buster bomb designed to smash through some 200 feet of concrete before exploding is a “great weapon” that could be used by US forces in a clash with Iran over its nuclear program, an Air Force general said on Thursday.
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Tweet Karzai under fire on Afghan women’s rights.President Hamid Karzai’s US-backed government is under fire this International Women’s Day, accused of selling out on Afghan women’s rights as it tries to woo the Taliban into peace talks.
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Tweet Hong Kong dentist to help check pharaoh’s cavity.A Hong Kong dentist is wielding forceps to help reach for answers inside the last surviving example of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Tweet Ministerial proposals: Bengalis, Biharis inching closer to citizenship.More than three million Bengalis and Biharis living in Pakistan could finally see a change in their status if the latest recommendations made by the interior ministry see the light of day, sources said.
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Tweet Pakistan possesses up to 110 nuclear weapons, report .Pakistan possessed up to 110 nuclear weapons and spent a whopping $2.2 billion on its atomic arsenal last year, claims a report by an international NGO, promptingIslamabad to call it “highly exaggerated”.
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Tweet Foreign militants fighting in Syria battlefields.Foreign Sunni militants are fighting alongside Syrian rebels who have taken on President Basharal Assad, but their numbers are hard to assess and almost certainly small, insurgents and analysts say.
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Tweet China official sees militant links in Pakistan.China is facing a network of militants entrenched in neighbouring states, but authorities, especially in Pakistan, are trying to stamp out violence and protect China’s interests, the governor of China’s Xinjiang region said on Wednesday.
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Tweet Foreign militants fighting in Syria battlefields.Foreign Sunni militants are fighting alongside Syrian rebels who have taken on President Basharal Assad, but their numbers are hard to assess and almost certainly small, insurgents and analysts say.
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Tweet Pakistani Celebrities Not Happy with Focus on Indian Models.The leading designers and models are a part of this lawn mania. The lawn mania stills persists with all leadingPakistani designers supported by own models doing wonders to the whole activity. And at a recent launches of lawn prints.
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Tweet Yemen army toll from Qaeda assault rises to 78.A surprise attack by al Qaeda extremists on troops in Yemen’s restive south has killed at least 78 soldiers and 25 militants, medics and military officials said on Monday.
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Tweet US to offer legal backing for killing Americans overseas for terrorism.The Obama administration on Monday plans to outline how US laws empower the government to kill Americans overseas who engage in terrorism against their home country, a source familiar with the matter said, months after a drone strike killed a US-born cleric who plotted [...]
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Tweet Syria crisis: China to send envoy to Damascus.China said on Monday it will send an envoy to Syria in a fresh bid to help staunch violence there that has divided Beijing from Western and Arab powers demanding stronger action to rein in the forces of President Bashar alAssad.
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Tweet Australian kids think yoghurt grows on trees: Survey. Most Australian children in their last year of primary school think cotton socks come from animals while one-quarter believe yoghurt is from plants, a study warning of the growing gap between city and country found Monday.
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Tweet One hurt in bomb blast near Turkish PM’s office.A bomb exploded Monday near the offices of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, lightly injuring one person, private NTV television reported.
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Posted in International Issues on Mar 3rd, 2012
Tweet A Nepalese man who stands no taller than a newborn has been declared the world’s shortest man in history. Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who says he’s 72, earned the title with a height of 54.6 centimeters (21.5 inches), Guinness World Records announced Sunday.
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Posted in International Issues on Mar 3rd, 2012
Tweet A local airline has found itself in hot water with environmentalists over a recent cargo flight of dolphins. According to the Chinese newspaper China Daily, the airline transported five dolphins from Japan to Vietnam on January 16. An internal memo to the airline staff was leaked boasting of the transaction’s success saying that it earned the [...]
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Tweet Pakistan warns west against war with Iran, seals pipeline deal. Pakistan has cautioned the west against attacking Iran over its nuclear ambitions, saying it should learn the lessons from the Iraq war.
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