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    Ship Carrying Acid Capsizes on Rhine in Germany

    A ship carrying 2,400 tons of sulfuric acid capsized on the Rhine River in Germany early Thursday, causing two crews missing and a halt on vessel traffic, authorities said. The ship overturned on the river near the famed Loreley Cliff, about 30 km south of the German tourism city Koblenz, German Federal Shipping Administration said […]

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    Flood waters submerge over 30 suburbs in Brisbane

    In the Australian state of Queensland, powerful flood waters have surged through the capital, Brisbane, leaving thousands of homes submerged. More than 30 suburbs are under water. Huge amounts of debris – cars, boats and jetties – have been floating downstream, some smashing into bridges. According to ABC, one man died when he was sucked […]

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    Flood, rains kill 42 people in Philippines

    Heavy rain and floods in the central and southern Philippines have killed 42 people and damaged crops and infrastructure worth more than 23 million dollars. Head of the government’s disaster agency, Benito Ramos, on Thursday told reporters that floods and landslides caused by more than two weeks of heavy rains in late December and January […]

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    Nepal’s opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) in favour of regulated India-Nepal border

    Nepal’s opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) on Thursday indicated that his party favoured a regulated open border between India and Nepal and to review the 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship. Talking to newsmen in Kathmandu before leaving for India to deliver the 3rd Anuradha Ghandy memorial lecture in Mumbai, Dr. Bhattarai said his party appreciated […]

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    Nigeria’s ruling party to hold presidential primary

    Nigeria’s ruling People’s Democratic Party’s delegates have started arriving in Abuja from across the country to pick its presidential candidate for the April election amid tight security. The major contenders are incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan and former vice president Atiku Abubakar who have large followers across the country. The key issue in the primary may […]

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    US cable predicts Vietnam PM to keep job

    Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was likely to be handed a second term despite criticism of his leadership, according to a leaked US diplomatic memo published by a British newspaper. The cable, published Wednesday, appeared to be written in late 2009 — well before a five-yearly communist Congress which also began Wednesday to decide […]

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    Iraq and Kuwait agree to step up efforts to resolve issues

    Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to step up efforts to resolve issues dating from Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It was emerged during the visit of Kuwait’s prime Minister to Iraq for the first time after Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The advisor of the Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Moussaw told that two sides […]

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    South Korea has a right to retaliate against any new North Korean attack

    The US Defence Secretary says South Korea has a right to retaliate against any new North Korean attack, but that he is trying to make sure that does not become necessary. Robert Gates made the remarks after meetings with top officials in Japan today, the second stop on this three-country Asian tour. He will travel […]

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    Mudslides and floods in Brazil kill nearly 270 people so far

    In Brazil, devastating mudslides and floods have swept the mountainous area, Serrana near Rio de Janeiro killing nearly 270 people so far. With death toll likely to rise, the Brazilian officials have said that entire neighbourhoods in the municipalities of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis were swept away by rivers of mud and tumbling rocks. […]

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    Ten people killed and eight others injured in a fire incident in China

    In China, ten people have been killed and eight others injured in a fire incident at a hotel in the central Hunan Province. Reports say the fire ripped through a small hotel, in Yuelu District of provincial capital Changsha in the early hours today. Six people were killed on the spot while four others succumbed […]

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