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  Taliban suicide bomber kills senior ANP minister, 7 others in Peshawar

  World | December 22, 2012 21:35 IST

  Peshawar, 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 | December 04, 2012 15:22 IST

  Dharamsala, 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 | November 24, 2012 19:09 IST

  Islamabad, 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 | November 09, 2012 9:13 IST

  Mexico 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 | November 04, 2012 9:16 IST

  Lucknow, 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 | August 25, 2012 22:30 IST

  Caracas, 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 | August 25, 2012 16:27 IST

  Kabul, 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 | August 24, 2012 21:39 IST

  New 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 | August 23, 2012 21:56 IST

  Islamabad, 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 | August 18, 2012 17:37 IST

  Islamabad, 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 | August 06, 2012 17:27 IST

  Kabul, 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 | July 19, 2012 12:27 IST

  Sofia, 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 | June 20, 2012 17:48 IST

  Gardez (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 | April 01, 2012 15:47 IST

  Hat 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 | March 20, 2012 9:50 IST

  Toulouse (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 | February 25, 2012 22:53 IST

  Kabul, 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 | January 20, 2012 20:23 IST

  Washington, 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 | January 14, 2012 18:13 IST

  Basra (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 | November 10, 2011 17:47 IST

  Beijing, 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 | September 06, 2011 23:13 IST

  Kabul, 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