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    Egypt’s military ruler summoned in Mubarak trial

    The chief judge in the criminal trial of Hosni Mubarak has summoned high-profile witnesses, including Egypt’s military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, to testify in court, a move which could bare the interim regime’s intentions on the fate of the ousted President. The judge, Ahmed Refaat, set 11th September as the date for Tantawi to […]

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    23 dead as Syria accused of ‘crimes against humanity’

    France accused Syria of “crimes against humanity” on Thursday, as activists said regime forces killed at least 23 people, 21 of them in a tank-backed raid on the flashpoint central city of Homs. “The Syrian regime has committed crimes against humanity,” French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said during talks in Moscow with his Russian counterpart […]

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    At least 30,000 died in the war in Libya

    At least 30,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded in Libya’s six-month civil war, the interim health minister said, offering a first detailed estimate of the high cost in lives of bringing down Muammar Gaddafi. There have been rough estimates in the past, but Naji Barakat, the health minister in the new Libyan leadership, said […]

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    US wildfires claim four lives, destroys 1,000 homes

    Massive wildfires have killed four people and destroyed at least 1,000 homes in Central Texas as the US firefighters battled some of the worst blazes in the state’s history. More than 180 fires have erupted in the past week across the rain-starved state. The blaze burned more than 116 square kilometres, killing two more people […]

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    Ice Hockey players among 44 killed in Russian air crash

    At least 44 people, including an entire ice hockey team, were killed when a jet carrying them for a match crashed and burst into flames immediately after taking off from an airport in western Russia. The Russian aircraft, a Yakovlev Yak-42, crashed at 4.00 pm (17.30 IST) after failing to gain altitude immediately after leaving […]

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    26 killed as bombers strike house of military Cdr in Quetta

    Targeting para-military forces which recently captured top al-Qaeda operatives, Taliban suicide bombers hit the house of a top Pakistan military commander in southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, killing 26 people, most of them soldiers and wounding 82 others. The suicide bombers, who detonated more than 90 kgs of explosives, in and around the house […]

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    Thousands of people stranded in typhoon hit Japan, death toll 41

    Thousands of people remained stranded in western Japan on Tuesday after the death toll from the fierce typhoon Talas rose to 41. Torrential rain brought by the powerful Talas, which made landfall on Saturday, was the deadliest in seven years. It caused rivers to swell and triggered floods and landslides that swept away buildings, homes […]

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    Gaddafi in top health, planning defence

    Muammar Gaddafi is “in excellent health and planning and organising Libya’s defence,” his spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told Syria’s Arrai television channel. “We are still powerful,” he said, adding that the sons of the toppled dictator “had assumed their role in the defence of and sacrifice for” their country. Pledging “a fight to the death or […]

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    Five killed in sectarian clash in Karachi

    Still reeling from a spate of gang wars, Pakistan’s commercial hub has now been hit by sectarian violence with at least five people killed in clash between two religious groups, police said today. The clash occurred yesterday between banned Sunni extremist group ‘Sipah-e-Sahaba’ and ‘Sunni Tehrik’ at New Karachi area. The police said that unidentified […]

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    Libya rebels: Talks for loyalist town have failed

    Negotiations over the surrender of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s remaining strongholds have collapsed, and Libyan rebels were waiting for orders to launch their final attack on the besieged town of Bani Walid. Rebel negotiator Abdullah Kanshil said on Sunday the talks had broken down after Moussa Ibrahim, Gaddafi’s chief spokesman and a top aide, had […]

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