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    135 missing people found in Indonesia tsunami zone

    More than 130 people listed as missing, have been found alive on high ground on a remote Indonesian island, that was devastated by a tsunami five days ago, an official said. “Rescuers have found some of the missing people on higher ground in North Pagai island,” disaster management official Agus Prayitno told adding that 163 […]

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    Kanishka families may get ex-gratia payment soon

    Canada is considering bringing closure to the 25-year-old bombing case of Air India’s Kanishka flight, with proposed ex-gratia payments to family members of the victims of the worst terrorist attack in the country in which 329 people were killed. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney spoke with relatives of the 329 […]

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    Russian Prez in Vietnam, nuclear deal in the offing

    President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Vietnam on Saturday, for a visit that will see Russia sign a multi-billion-euro nuclear power plant deal, with the former Soviet-era Communist ally. Medvedev said he was expecting “serious results” from the trip, which is aimed at establishing wider energy ties. Referring to close links between the Soviet Union and […]

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    UN seals historic treaty to protect threatened ecosystems

    A historic global treaty to protect the world’s forests, coral reefs and other threatened ecosystems within 10 years was sealed at a UN summit on Saturday. Rich and poor nations agreed to take “effective and urgent” action to curb the destruction of nature in an effort to halt the loss of the world’s biodiversity on […]

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    US airports on alert after suspicious packages found in UK

    Airports across the United States were put on high alert after suspicious packages originating from Yemen were found, on a plane in UK, even as FBI is investigating whether it is a part of a terror group’s rehearsal for a mail bomb attack. “As a result of security precautions triggered by this threat, the additional […]

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    Russia conducts successful test of new naval missile

    Russian navy on Friday successfully test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile hoping that it will be the future of its nuclear arsenal. The nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental missile launch is the second successful firing this month after a string of failures that brought the programme to a halt for 10 months, the defence ministry said. The […]

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    EU nations to create a financial shield for future debt crisis

    Leaders of the European Union have agreed to create a permanent financial shield to protect the euro zone nations from facing liquidity crisis in the future. They have endorsed “limited changes” to the Lisbon Treaty for the purpose. The proposed fund is part of a “crisis prevention mechanism” which gives the European Commission, the executive […]

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    Nepal’s House fails to elect new PM in 14th run-off poll

    Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudyal, the sole candidate who is adamant over not quitting the prime ministerial race, on Friday failed to garner a majority in Parliament for an unprecedented 14th time in a row, prolonging the leadership crisis in the country. Four months after the 22-party coalition led by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar […]

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    Court rejects Fonseka’s charges on re-election of Rajapaksa

    Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Friday dismissed a petition challenging the re-election of President Mahinda Rajapaksa filed by his defeated opponent and now jailed former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka alleging that there were large-scale irregularities in the polls. The five-member Supreme Court bench dismissed the petition by upholding on a preliminary objection raised on behalf of […]

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    German Parliament vote to extend use of nuclear power

    The German parliament has passed a controversial legislation that extends the life span of the country’s 17 nuclear reactors on an average by 12 years after a fierce debate in which the opposition accused the government of capitulating to the powerful atomic industry. Extending the life span of the reactors is a central element of […]

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