Yahoo Daily News QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims is rising and some communities are living in a state of siege, a human rights group said on Friday, warning that sectarian violence...
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Al Jazeera The US and Afghanistan have reached the "last chapter" in their effort to establish a sovereign Afghanistan that can provide for its own security, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said. After a...
CBC Mali's president on Thursday asked France for help countering an offensive by extremist groups who control the northern half of the country and are heading south. France's UN ambassador, Gerard Araud,...
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The New York Times ISLAMBAD, Pakistan — Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded gunfire in the disputed territory of Kashmir for the second time in three days on Tuesday, this time leading to Indian claims that the Pakistanis had killed two Indian soldiers. Connect...
The Examiner Asteroid 99942 Apophis will come with 9.2 million miles of the Earth at 7:09am MST. Normally this would not be an observation of note, but astronomers will be paying close attention. Apophis has the potential of hitting the Earth. On April 13, 2029...
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