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    Referendum turnout passes 60 percent in Southern Sudan

    South Sudan has reached the 60 per cent turnout needed to pass the referendum on secession from the north. The south’s ruling party, Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement and ex-rebel group says, the 60 per cent threshold has been achieved but we are asking for a 100 per cent turnout. The SPLM’s Anne Itto did not […]

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    China bans imports of German pork, egg goods

    China has banned imports of German pork and egg goods after tests last week had revealed levels of dioxin at 77 times the permitted level in animal feed. The Chinese authorities said, it will also inspect goods shipped from Germany before the ban was imposed to see if they are safe. Previously only South Korea […]

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    Floods continue to rattle northeast Aus; water enters Brisbane Floodwaters enter

    Floodwaters entered the low-lying areas of Australia’s third-largest city on Wednesday as the Brisbane river breached its banks, forcing thousands in the Queensland capital to flee their homes in the midst of frantic rescue efforts. Up to 30 people are believed to have died in Queensland state since floods swept northeast of Australia. The water […]

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    Pakistan court convicts imam and his son for blasphemy

    A Pakistani court has sentenced an imam and his son to life imprisonment after convicting them on controversial blasphemy charges after they removed a poster containing Quranic verses, officials said. Less than a week after Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer was gunned down by a police guard for criticising the blasphemy law, Judge Rao Ayub of […]

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    Six Taliban militants killed in US drone attack in Pak

    US drones targeted a militant compound in northwest Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, killing at least six Taliban fighters, officials said. The Predator spy planes fired four missiles at the militant compound in Mir Ali town near Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan tribal agency, they said. Six Taliban militants were killed […]

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    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to Speak at World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi : His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, has announced his participation and attendance at the fourth annual World Future Energy Summit (WFES), held in Abu Dhabi from 17-20 January 2011, and hosted by Masdar. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon will address Heads of State and international delegates at WFES, a forum that […]

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    UN Chief Urges Redoubling Efforts to Help Haiti

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to redouble its efforts to support the people of Haiti on the eve of the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 220,000 and made 1.5 million others homeless. In a statement issued by his spokesman here Tuesday evening, Ban noted that the UN and […]

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    S. Korea, DPRK Restore Communication Hotline

    South Korea and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Wednesday restored a hotline at their truce village, nearly eight months after the latter unilaterally cut it off in protest, the unification ministry said. The two sides spoke to each other for ten minutes via the restored Red Cross communication channel at the border […]

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    Fresh protests in suburb of Tunisian capital

    Fresh protests have broken out in a suburb of the Tunisian capital, Tunis. Police reportedly fired into the air to disperse protesters in Ettadamen, 15 kilometres from the centre of Tunis. Officials have said 21 people were killed in protests in recent days though union and health officials say the toll may be at least […]

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    China denies its troops cross into Indian territory in Ladakh

    China has denied that its troops had crossed into Indian territory in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier region of Ladakh and said it has been respecting the peace agreements between the two countries. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing that China’s border personnel have been respecting the two agreements made between the […]

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