Japan successfully launched the world's first satellite dedicated to monitoring global greenhouse gas emissions on Friday as part of efforts to tackle climate change. " The project will help scientists measure...
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MSNBC is reporting that a cruise ship that had 122 people aboard has run agound in Antartica. The ship, Ushuaia, has started to take on water and leak fuel after it ran aground in Wilhelmina Bay, a pensula that...
" Peshawar - Pakistani police say suspected militants have killed a policeman and torched 62 trucks at a terminal used to supply Nato and US troops in Afghanistan. Police official Kashif Alam says about 30...
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In a most regrettable act, Israel blocked a Libyan ship on its way to the Gaza strip. The ship carried humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians enduring the Israeli blockade. Israel stated this...
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- College senior Kyla Berry was looking forward to voting in her first presidential election, even carrying her voter registration card in her wallet. ...
On the charges of armed insurrection, aiding terror group and illegal possession of explosives, a group of 86 people are to be tried at a Turkish court. The massive trial held near Istanbul is organised agaisnt Ergenekon group for about 30 charges, including membership...
Taliban molitia killed more than 25 Afgan people in southern province of Kandhar .This incident took place when the militia man tried to stop the bus, on the refusal to do so they openely fired several rounds...
In the northeastern Indian state of Assam an overcrowded speeding bus collided with a stationary truck and killed 23 people and injured 44 others. The bus was carrying laborers to work before dawn in the state's Dhubri district some 185 miles (300...
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The prime minister of Iraq has said that British troops should withdraw from Southern Iraq because they are no longer needed there, according to reports today."British troops should leave Iraq because they are no longer needed to maintain security, Iraq's prime minister has...
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More than 60 bus passengers were killed when the bus they were travelling collided with a milk tanker and caught fire in central Pakistan. Eyewtinesses said that The bus, travelling from Karachi, was speeding when it struck the other vehicle on a...
The Somali pirates being confronted by a coalition of the worlds' navies off the Africa coast have been surrounded by three warships: one Russian, one American, and one unknown. "Somali pirates aboard a ship...
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A massive bomb explosion ripped apart a bus carrying Lebanese troops in the city of Tripoli in the north of Lebanon on Monday. Initial report said five people killed and 17 hurt in the bombing at Bahsas at the southern entrance of Tripoli during the...
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" Kathmandu (PTI): A row has erupted in Nepal over Maoists cadres carrying weapons inside the Parliament, with the House today being disrupted over the issue. The Constituent Assembly, which is tasked to...
" By VOA News 26 September 2008 The Russian navy says it is sending a warship to Somalia's coast after pirates there seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks and other military hardware, as well as crew.In a statement Friday, Russian Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo says...
"Sir Paul McCartney said he was carrying a message of peace for Israel and Palestine as he toured the West Bank town of Bethlehem ahead of his planned concert in Tel Aviv. By Tim Butcher in Bethlehem Last...