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Wednesday, 02 May 2012

Rahul Gandhi visits survivors after India ferry sinking

India's ruling Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi has visited the site of the ferry disaster in Assam state. Mr Gandhi assured families that the authorities were doing all they could to find the missing victims. Rescue workers have found five more bodies in the Brahmaputra river, where the ferry capsized in...

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Philippines asks US for radar, patrol boats and aircraft Yahoo Daily News

The Philippines said Wednesday it has asked the United States to supply its armed forces with patrol boats and aircraft as well as radar systems amid an escalating territorial dispute with China. Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said the hardware would help his country achieve a...

Rallies in Pakistan pay tribute to bin Laden Al Jazeera

Hundreds of supporters of Osama bin Laden rallied in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta to pay tribute to former al-Qaeda chief on the first anniversary of his death. Around 1,000 activists from the pro-Taliban Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam religious political party gathered on Wednesday in the...

Taliban hit Kabul on Osama anniversary, seven dead Zeenews

Kabul: Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, announcing the start of their annual "spring offensive" in defiance of calls from US President Barack Obama during a visit to Afghanistan that the war was ending. Seven people were killed after...

‘Pak govt, military had a hand in catching Osama’ Zeenews

Islamabad: A year after Pakistan was left embarrassed by the unilateral US raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar on Wednesday said Pakistani government and forces "had a hand" in catching him. He said the al-Qaeda chief was traced through a mobile phone SIM that...

UN sanctions N. Korea firms over rocket launch Yahoo Daily News

The UN Security Council on Wednesday ordered sanctions against three "very significant" North Korean state firms over the country's failed rocket launch, US ambassador Susan Rice said. With fears mounting that North Korea is about to stage a nuclear bomb test, the United States, European Union,...

The first, and last, French presidential debate kicks off France24

In what has been widely dubbed as Nicolas Sarkozy’s “last chance” to seize the initiative in his bid for reelection, the incumbent French president is...

News Corp 'has full confidence in Rupert Murdoch' BBC News

The News Corporation board says it has "full confidence" in Rupert Murdoch. In...

WWF Indonesia calls for probe into elephant death Yahoo Daily News

Environmental organisation WWF called on the government Wednesday to investigate the death of a critically endangered Sumatran elephant allegedly poisoned at an Indonesian oil palm plantation. A ranger at the plantation in Aceh Jaya on Sumatra island...

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