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Chikmagalur,
Thursday, May 16, 2013
A police constable of the Anti-Naxal Force suffered a minor injury during an exchange of fire between a group of suspected Maoists and ANF personnel near Heggane estate, around 30 km from Sringeri,...
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KABUL,
Thursday, May 16, 2013
At least two soldiers and four contractors with NATO-led forces were killed along with nine Afghan civilians on Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car struck a military convoy in Kabul, officials...
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STOCKHOLM,
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is dismissing suggestions that the Syrian government might not join a U.S.-Russia initiative to negotiate a peaceful transition in Syria. Syria’s informat...
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DUBAI,
May 10, 2013
Virtually on life-support, the mission of U.N. and Arab League envoy on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has been energised by the Moscow-Washington accord, which has set in motion a flurry of diplomatic act...
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May 10, 2013
The joint Russian and United States announcement of a conference to bring together Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government and opposition groups could be a decisive moment in a terrible civi...
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MOSCOW,
May 8, 2013
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that he hoped the U.S. and Russia could find “common ground” on Syria as they shared “some very significant comm...
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WASHINGTON,
May 4, 2013
An Israeli airstrike against Syria was targeting a shipment of advanced missiles bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Israeli officials confirmed on Saturday. It was the seco...
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DAMASCUS,
April 29, 2013
Syria’s Prime Minister escaped an assassination attempt on Monday when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Damascus, state media reported, in the latest attack to target a top official in Presiden...
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HYDERABAD,
April 24, 2013
Debate rages on pilot’s decision to lift off chopper, on evacuation mission, prematurely when it came under fire, leaving five commandos in the red zone
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Tel Aviv,
April 23, 2013
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against the armed rebels attempting to oust him from power, a senior Israel military officer said on Tuesday. “In our estimate, th...
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Seoul,
April 20, 2013
North Korea said on Saturday that it would never agree to talks on denuclearisation, but would be open to negotiations for arms reduction.Pyongyang said it will not give up its nuclear prog...
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Washington,
April 19, 2013
The two suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon had “international ties” and “military experience,” NBC News reported on Friday. The suspects are brothers with the last na...
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Baghdad,
April 15, 2013
A series of attacks across Iraq killed 27 people and wounded well over 100 on Monday morning, officials said. The attacks, many involving car bombs, took place less than a week before Ir...
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Dubai,
May 10, 2013
The recent Israeli attacks in Syria on storage sites for weapons that may have been kept for use by the Lebanese Hizbollah continued to spiral a dangerous dynamic. Hizbollah leader Hassan N...
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May 9, 2013
The war against the Assad regime has passed into the hands of al Qaeda affiliated jihadis. Obama should resist the pressure to intervene on their behalf
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DUBAI,
May 8, 2013
A string of Israeli air strikes on Syria is threatening to expand the geographical boundaries of the conflict by drawing Palestinian groups allied to the Syrian government and the Lebanese Hizboll...
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CHANDIGARH,
May 2, 2013
Thanks to political exigencies, the Akali Dal leadership on Wednesday got the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to remove militant leader Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale’s picture fro...
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April 27, 2013
The situation in Syria has reached a point of inflexion. Speaking in Abu Dhabi, U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel claimed that the American intelligence community has determined “with varying deg...
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BEIRUT,
April 23, 2013
Two Syrian rockets struck Lebanon on Tuesday, causing damage and heightening tensions between Lebanese Shiite and Sunni communities over neighbouring Syria’s civil war, security officials in Beiru...
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Tripoli,
April 23, 2013
A car bomb targeted the French embassy in the Libyan capital early on Tuesday, wounding two French guards and causing extensive material damage, Libyan security officials said. The expl...
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BEIRUT,
April 19, 2013
Gunmen killed a government official in a Damascus restaurant, Syrian State media and activists reported on Friday as regime troops and rebels fought fierce battles near the Lebanese border.
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NAIROBI,
April 19, 2013
A police chief says that a masked gunman believed to be a member of an al-Qaeda-linked Somalia militant group stormed a hotel in a Kenyan city near the border with Somalia and opened fire with an...
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CHENNAI,
April 15, 2013
Reiterating that Tamil Eelam alone could find a permanent solution to the problems of the Sri Lankan Tamils, Viduthalai Chiruthaikal Katchi (VCK) on Sunday demanded a referendum among them to ascer...
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