"Three Nato soldiers have been killed in new violence in Afghanistan, days after a deadly Taleban attack on French troops in the country. The soldiers died in Ghazni province, in the centre of Afghanistan. Polish news agency PAP said they were members of Warsaw's contingent...
An Italian mountaineer, Marco Confortola, has been rescued from the K2 mountain located in Pakistan. The second highest peak in the world, K2 had earlier swallowed 11 climbers during this recent expedition....
After 6 years waiting, the defendant finally will be executed in holly month of ramadan. Why wait until ramadhan, why not now?!"Indonesia says it hopes to execute three militants for their part in the 2002 Bali...
Nine American soldiers died in an already bloody Sunday in Afghanistan, after Taliban insurgents attacked a U.S. base near the border with Pakistan." Taliban insurgents carried out a bold assault on a remote base...
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Suspected Tamil rebels have killed 4 bus passengers and wounded many others bus passengers. "At least four people have been killed and 25 others wounded when gunmen ambushed a crowded passenger bus in Sri Lanka, the...
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What is the Conservative Argument against state run healthcare, Read this story by investigatve reporters at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You may understand the rational behind the view. Alone...
"In a case of neglect that resulted in the death of Tiffany Hirst, 3, a court was told yesterday how passers-by used to see the gaunt face of the toddler staring through the window of her mother’s squalid flat." ...
A train crashed into a schoolbus on the tracks in a region of France close to the Swiss border, killing five children and one adult on board and sending 30 others to hospital. 50 Kids were on board the bus at the time of the crash.The children were on a field trip to the...
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Five people have been killed in a collision between a fishing trawler and a small cabin crusier in Australia's Sydney harbour."Nine others were injured as all 14 people aboard the smaller boat were thrown into Sydney...
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A funeral for two anti-al Qaeda Sunni men turned from tragedy to devastation on Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked.At least 50 people were killed and 55 were wounded in the blast, which occurred north of Baghdad."A suicide bomber struck the funeral of two anti-al Qaeda...
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US Dept of State published today the Opening Remarks from the Institute of Medicine's Public Meeting of the Committee on Transforming the Case for U.S. Commitment to Global Health Washington, DC March 24, 2008 It...
Locals of a small village in southwest France have been told they will be severly punished if they die, because there's no room left in the town's cemetery to bury them. I wonder how someone can be serverly punished...
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A French woman suffering from an incurable facial tumour that has left her blind, disfigured and in agony, has lost her court battle to be allowed a doctor-assisted suicide.
""This is the happiest period for us, because we are soon to die as martyrs," Ali Ghufron, the eldest of three bombers, was quoted by AFP as telling the Koran Tempo daily from his jail off the southern coast of Java...
Rome (ANTARA News) - More than 1,000 migrants have lost their lives trying to reach the European Union so far this year, an Italian monitoring group said Wednesday.
The group, Fortress Europe, said 1,096 migrants had died on their way to an EU country in 2007, including 99...