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Flooding submerges more towns in Sindh

Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:13

SUKKUR: About 150,000 people were forced to move to higher ground as floodwaters from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south, a government spokesman said Saturday.

US security firm 'to pay $42m fine'

Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:12

The private security contractor previously known as Blackwater, has agreed to pay $42m in fines for hundreds of violations of US export rules, according to the New York T...

Hamas rejects call for direct negotiations

Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:10

GAZA, (PIC) Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, said on Friday that his movement rejects the U.S. call for direct negotiations between the Oslo team in...

13 soldiers, 2 civilians killed in Yemen clashes

Saturday, 21 August 2010 11:08

Aden, YEMEN (Agencies) Thirteen soldiers and two civilians were killed on Friday when the army fought gunmen in the city of Loder in south Yemen, a local security officia...

Afghan villagers protest night raid

Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:04

Hundreds of villagers have blocked a highway in eastern Afghanistan to protest a night raid by Nato and Afghan soldiers that left two people dead.
A statement from the Nat...

Last US combat brigade leaves Iraq

Thursday, 19 August 2010 10:01

The last US combat brigade has withdrawn from Iraq, bringing combat operations to an end in a war that has lasted more than seven years and claimed the lives of more than...

1000s take to the streets in Kashmir

Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:59

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Indian-administered Kashmir following the death of a Kashmiri at the hands of Indian security forces.

6.8mn Americans lose jobs in Q4 2009

Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:55

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says 6.8 million jobs were lost from September to December 2009 and the world's biggest economy is still facing a tough time.

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IOA plans to build new tunnels under J'lem

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 11:11

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) intends to build new tunnels beneath the occupied city of Jerusalem connecting the Judaized Sharaf neig...