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Taliban suicide bomber kills senior ANP minister, 7 others in Peshawar
World | Dec 22, 2012, 09:35 PM ISTPeshawar, Dec 22: A Taliban suicide bomber today blew himself up killing Awami National Party's senior inister Bashir Ahmed Bilour and 7 others, and injuring 18 people. Bashir Ahmed Bilour, who was a senior minister
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Another monk kills himself in Tibet
World | Dec 04, 2012, 03:22 PM ISTDharamsala, Dec 4: Another monk has committed self-immolation in Tibet, the Tibetan government-in-exile said here Tuesday.Total 92 such cases have taken place since 2009 and over 20 cases took place in November this year.Lobsang Gendun,
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Bomb blast at Muharram procession in Pakistan kills 7, injures dozens
World | Nov 24, 2012, 07:09 PM ISTIslamabad, Nov 24: A roadside bomb killed at least seven people, including three children, and wounded 30 others at the Shia Muslim procession of Muharram in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police said, as minority Shias
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'52 killed, 1.2 mn affected by Guatemalan quake'
World | Nov 09, 2012, 09:13 AM ISTMexico City, Nov 9: At least 52 people have been killed,22 missing and 1.2 million others affected by the 7.4-magnitude earthquake which hit the country's Pacific coast Wednesday, said Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina. The
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Mob sets fire to truck after it kills three in Lucknow
India | Nov 04, 2012, 09:16 AM ISTLucknow, Nov 4 : An angry mob set fire to a DCM Toyota truck on Saturday night in Kotwali here after it mowed down five people, out of which three died on the spot. Those
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Refinery blast kills 24 in Venezuela, dozens hurt
World | Aug 25, 2012, 10:30 PM ISTCaracas, Aug 25: A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery early Saturday, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 50 others in the deadliest disaster in memory for the country's key oil
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NATO airstrike kills 12 militants in Afghanistan
World | Aug 25, 2012, 04:27 PM ISTKabul, Aug 25: A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan targeting a group of insurgents near the Pakistani border killed at least 12 militants, the international military coalition said.Pakistani intelligence and Afghan officials said Mullah Dadullah,
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Gunman kills 1, wounds 8 at Empire State Building
World | Aug 24, 2012, 09:39 PM ISTNew York, Aug 24: A recently fired store worker shot a former colleague to death Friday morning outside New York's iconic Empire State Building and then randomly opened fired on people nearby, two law enforcement
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US drone kills Kashmiri militant 'Engineer' in N Waziristan
World | Aug 23, 2012, 09:56 PM ISTIslamabad, Aug 23: Kashmiri militant leader ‘Engineer' Ahsan Aziz was among those killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region last week, his father said today.Abdul Aziz, a former militant
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Drone strike kills 4 in northwest Pakistan
World | Aug 18, 2012, 05:37 PM ISTIslamabad, Aug 18: A US drone targeted a compound in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan today, killing four persons and injuring two more. The drone struck a compound in Shawal area
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NATO airstrike kills Haqqani leader
World | Aug 06, 2012, 05:27 PM ISTKabul, Aug 6: NATO forces killed a local commander for the Haqqani insurgent group in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Monday.Sher Mohammad Hakimi was hit on Sunday in Logar province, the
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Eight killed, dozens injured in suicide bomb attack on Israelis in Bulgaria
World | Jul 19, 2012, 12:27 PM ISTSofia, Bulgaria, July 19: Bulgaria's interior minister says a bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack. He says the suspected attacker
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Suicide attack targets NATO, kills 17 Afghans
World | Jun 20, 2012, 05:48 PM ISTGardez (Afghanistan), Jun 20: A suicide bomber on a motorbike struck a joint Afghan-NATO patrol in the town of Khost today, killing 17 Afghans and causing coalition casualties, officials said.The blast in the eastern town
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Bombs In Southern Thailand Kill 14, Injure 340
World | Apr 01, 2012, 03:47 PM ISTHat Yai (Thailand), Apr 1: Suspected Muslim insurgents staged the most deadly coordinated attacks in years in Thailand's restive south, killing 14 people and injuring 340 with car bombs that targeted Saturday shoppers and a
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Racist Killer On The Loose, 4 Slain At French Jewish School
World | Mar 20, 2012, 09:50 AM ISTToulouse (France), Mar 20: A gunman on a motorbike opened fire Monday at a Jewish school, killing a rabbi and his two young sons as they waited for a bus, then chased down a 7-year-old
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Gunman Kills 2 Americans Inside Afghan Ministry
World | Feb 25, 2012, 10:53 PM ISTKabul, Feb 25: Two US service members were shot dead today by another Westerner inside the Afghan Interior Ministry, officials said.The attack came as tensions between the Afghans and the Americans are high following the
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Drone Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Operative In Pakistan, US Says
World | Jan 20, 2012, 08:23 PM ISTWashington, Jan 20: A Pakistani top al Qaeda operations planner, who was working a plot to attack Western targets, has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Pakistan's restive tribal area last week, a
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Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills 50 At Pilgrimage Climax
World | Jan 14, 2012, 06:13 PM ISTBasra (Iraq), Jan 14: A suicide bomber killed 50 people in an apparent sectarian attack in south Iraq today casting a pall over the climax of a Shiite pilgrimage that draws hundreds of thousands from
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Gas Leak Kills 20 In Latest China Mine Accident
World | Nov 10, 2011, 05:47 PM ISTBeijing, Nov 10: Hundreds of rescuers were working Thursday to save 23 Chinese coal miners trapped underground by a gas leak that killed 20 others.It comes less than a week after dozens of miners were
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Taliban Bomb Kills Afghan Governor, Three Guards
World | Sep 06, 2011, 11:13 PM ISTKabul, Sept 6: An Afghan district governor and three of his guards were killed Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a Taliban roadside bomb in the east of the country, an official said.Asil