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Violence in Pakistan's Quetta continues during Eid
Full Article Deutsche Welle
09 Aug 2013

More violence has erupted in the Pakistani city of Quetta. Gunmen fired on the vehicle of a former politician, killing at least nine people, as he emerged from a mosque during Eid as Muslims ended their fasting month. Gunmen in the western city of Quetta fired on the vehicle of a former provincial minister leaving a mosque on Friday, during Eid,...

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People rush an injured man to a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, following a gun attack outside a mosque.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt

updated 03 Aug 2013; published 15 Jul 2013
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Violence against Shia Muslims in Quetta, Pakistan
updated 02 Apr 2013; published 18 Feb 2013
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PAKISTAN Sectarian Violence: Suicide Bombing On Quetta Market Targets Shia, 84 Dead 173 Wounded
updated 05 Aug 2013; published 16 Jun 2013
2:59
Deadly Siege At A Hospital In Quetta (Pakistan) Ends
updated 19 Jul 2013; published 17 Apr 2013
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Against Elections - Against Democracy - More Attacks To Come
updated 28 Apr 2013; published 04 Mar 2013
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[Attack in Pakistan] - Bomb Exlodes Kills 45 at Shi'ite mosque in Karachi, Pakistan
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 19 May 2013
1:46
Pakistan Politician Zahra Shahid Hussain Killed In Karachi
US pulls staff from Lahore consulate over 'threats'
Full Article The Himalayan
09 Aug 2013

Added At: 2013-08-09 9:19 AM Last Updated At: 2013-08-09 11:22 AM The Himalayan Times - Saved Articles(s) The headlines has been added to your saved article(s) To View your saved article(s)please Click Here » Close "The Department of State ordered this drawdown due to specific threats concerning the...

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A Pakistani police officer fires in the air during clashes that erupted as demonstrators tried to approach the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012.
photo: AP / Anjum Naveed

updated 08 Feb 2013; published 25 Apr 2011
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END WAR Pakistan American Shooter Not Diplomat But CIA, Ex-Blackwater Operative
updated 03 Aug 2013; published 04 Jun 2009
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cctv footage pakistan lahore bomb blast at rescue 15 and ISI office
updated 23 Jul 2012; published 15 Feb 2011
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Raymond Davis case - Barack Obama, BADLY ill-informed on Vienna Conventions on Consular Relations
updated 10 Dec 2012; published 18 Jan 2011
1:36
Embassy Test Centre UK Marriage Visa English Test
updated 27 Aug 2010; published 05 Apr 2010
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Peshawar Bomb Blast near American consulate (5 April 2010)
updated 25 May 2013; published 24 May 2013
2:20
Royal Air force , UK , fighter jet , Scramble , PIA Flight for Manchester , 24th May 2013
Nagasaki marks 68th anniversary of atomic bombing
Full Article The Wichita Eagle
09 Aug 2013

TOKYONagasaki mayor criticized Japan's government for lacking effort in international nuclear disarmament as the...

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 Smoke billows up over Nagasaki, Japan after bombing by atomic bomb on 9 August 1945. Two planes of the 509th Composite Group, part of the 313th Wing of the 20th Air Force, participated in this mission; one to carry the bomb, the other to act as escort.
photo: USAF file

updated 13 Aug 2010; published 09 Aug 2010
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Nagasaki to mark WWII atomic bombing - CCTV 100809
updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
2:21
Japan Marks 68 Years After Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 09 Aug 2012
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WorldLeadersTV: HIROSHIMA - NAGASAKI A-BOMBS; IAEA's YUKIYA AMANO
updated 09 Aug 2012; published 09 Aug 2012
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8/9/2012 Nagasaki atom bomb anniversary remembered
updated 09 Aug 2011; published 09 Aug 2011
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Nagasaki marks 66th anniversary of American atomic bombing - CCTV 110809
updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
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Hiroshima 68th marks anniversary of US atomic bombing
Suicide bomber kills 30 at policeman's funeral in Pakistan
Full Article Swissinfo
08 Aug 2013

Reuters August 8, 2013 - 15:41 By Gul Yusufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 30 people at the funeral of a policeman in Pakistan on Thursday, including five senior police officers, in the third deadly attack on government targets in two weeks. A Reuters reporter at the scene in the western city of Quetta described...

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Pakistani's carry an injured police officer from the site of a bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013.
photo: AP / Arshad Butt

updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
1:16
Pakistan police killed in funeral bombing
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
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Pakistan: bomber targets policeman's funeral killing mourning officers
updated 18 Jun 2013; published 18 Jun 2013
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Suicide bomber kills 30 at funeral in Pakistan
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
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Quetta police funeral bombing aftermath
updated 04 Aug 2013; published 19 Jul 2013
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Suicide bomber targets funeral in Pakistan killing 30
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 08 Aug 2013
0:47
Suicide bomber kills 30 at policeman's funeral in Pakistan-Atentado suicida en Pakistan
Bihar, India and Gandhian Sacraments
Full Article WorldNews.com
08 Aug 2013

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling It is tragic that Mahatma Gandhi's formative sacrament was rejected when India declared: "Why should we bother with food? Our reserves are the wheat fields of Kansas." India's short-sighted policy was in response to its nation's all-out industrialization scheme, a scheme which emphasized producing and...

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Indian children eat free school lunch at a school in Bodhgaya, Bihar state, India, Wednesday, July 17, 2013. At least 23 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide.
photo: AP / Manish Bhandari

updated 21 Oct 2010; published 21 Oct 2010
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing a huge rally in Sitamarhi Bihar, 21st October 2010 Part 01
updated 31 Jan 2010; published 31 Jan 2010
3:48
Martyrs Day in Patna by GM Free Bihar Movement against Bt Brinjal
updated 31 Jan 2010; published 31 Jan 2010
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Martyrs Day in Patna by GM Free Bihar Movement against Bt Brinjal 6.
updated 31 Jan 2010; published 31 Jan 2010
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Martyrs Day in Patna by GM Free Bihar Movement against Bt Brinjal
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 23 Apr 2011
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Mahatma Gandhi : Film : MAHATMA - Life of Gandhi, 1869-1948 (5hrs 10min)
updated 25 Oct 2010; published 25 Oct 2010
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Bettiah (Bihar), 25th October 2010 Part 01
UN experts: Al-Qaeda affiliates remain a threat
Full Article Sun Star
08 Aug 2013

UNITED NATIONS -- Al-Qaeda's senior leadership has a diminished ability to direct global terror operations but the threat from loosely linked affiliates and individuals radicalized by its "infectious ideas" is becoming more sophisticated, UN experts said Wednesday. In a report to the Security Council, the panel monitoring UN sanctions against...

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A wide view of the meeting of the Security Council on cooperation between the UN and regional and subregional organizations in maintaining international peace and security, 6 August, 2013.
photo: UN / Mark Garten

updated 03 Aug 2013; published 03 Aug 2013
1:35
Global travel warning: US cites al-Qaida threat
updated 13 May 2012; published 13 May 2012
6:55
TV9 - Al-Qaida's Underwear Bomb Threat In India : "Underwear Bomb" - 1/3
updated 13 May 2012; published 13 May 2012
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TV9 - Al-Qaida's Underwear Bomb Threat In India : "Underwear Bomb" - 2/3
updated 13 May 2012; published 13 May 2012
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TV9 - Al-Qaida's Underwear Bomb Threat In India : "Underwear Bomb" - 3/3
updated 15 Nov 2012; published 15 Nov 2012
3:35
Al Qaeda ideology is weakening - Algerian activist Abdullah Anas
updated 12 Oct 2010; published 12 Oct 2010
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Al-Qaeda threat is real, EU anti-terrorism coordinator says.mp4
Obama scraps summit with Putin
Full Article Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
08 Aug 2013

LOS ANGELES -- President Barack Obama's decision to scrap a meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin reflects the White House's growing frustration with the Russian government over its embrace of intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, as well as its reluctance to engage over a host of issues that are key to the relationship....

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President Barack Obama meets with Secretary of State John Kerry in the Oval Office, July 29, 2013.
photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy

updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
1:48
Obama Cancels Visit: President Barack Obama Moscow summit with President Vladimir Putin
updated 03 Aug 2013; published 01 Aug 2013
3:44
White House 'Extreme' Disappointment in Russia's Asylum for Snowden
updated 08 Aug 2013; published 01 Aug 2013
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White House Extremely Disappointed With Snowden Asylum
updated 02 Aug 2013; published 02 Aug 2013
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White House Extremely Disappointed With Russia
updated 05 Aug 2013; published 09 Jul 2013
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(Snowden hoax) The best political analysis on Edward Snowden
updated 03 Aug 2013; published 01 Aug 2013
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IT'S PAYBACK TIME FOR "OBAMA"!
Indian group offers new plan for Bhopal
Full Article Al Jazeera
07 Aug 2013

The international fight for justice by survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster in India has been a rollercoaster ride of delay, disappointment and few victories for families of the tens of thousands of people who died in one of the world's worst industrial disasters. However, three recent major legal and environmental developments suggest that...

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File - A senior citizen taking part in a protest rally shouts slogans against the Bhopal gas tragedy verdict, in Kolkata on Tuesday 15 June 2010 in Eastern India City.
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
8:42
Cleaning After Chemical Disaster
updated 07 Mar 2013; published 07 Mar 2013
6:35
Bill Gates Confronted On His Eugenics Vaccine Program That Has Crippled Nearly 50K Indian Children
updated 21 Mar 2009; published 21 Mar 2009
5:39
Panimalar : CSE ROCKERs Farewell Fun "2004-2008 batch"
updated 09 Jul 2008; published 09 Jul 2008
8:48
Panimalar : 2004-2008 CSE Gals "unforgettable last day in college"
updated 21 Mar 2009; published 21 Mar 2009
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Panimalar : CSE ROCKERs FAREWELL DAY - 01.04.08 "2004-2008 batch"
updated 22 Mar 2009; published 22 Mar 2009
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Panimalar : 5th convocation (15.03.09) CSE 2004-2008 batch
Why Yemen's al-Qaeda branch is so feared by the West
Full Article CBC
07 Aug 2013

The closing of embassies in the Middle East and North Africa by the U.S. and other Western countries "due to the continued potential for terrorist attacks" has once again focused attention on the Yemen-based group, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In May, U.S. President Barack Obama identified AQAP as the al-Qaeda branch "most active in plotting...

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Police in an armored vehicle secure a road leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country.
photo: AP / Hani Mohammed

updated 18 Jul 2013; published 17 Jul 2013
0:36
Arabian al-Qaeda mumber two confirmed dead
updated 22 May 2012; published 22 May 2012
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Al Qaeda- Yemen Suicide Bombing 'Revenge'
updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
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Al-Qaeda Plans In Yemen Prevented?
updated 18 Apr 2013; published 18 Apr 2013
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Arab Al Qaeda Cell Is Arrested In UAE
updated 03 Aug 2013; published 03 Aug 2013
1:35
Global travel warning: US cites al-Qaida threat
updated 06 Aug 2013; published 06 Aug 2013
5:54
BBC World News: Al-Qaeda leaders' talks 'sparked US embassy closures'
First likely case of H7N9 bird flu spread by humans is reported
Full Article South China Morning Post
07 Aug 2013

Chinese scientists on Wednesday reported the first likely case of direct person-to-person transmission of the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed more than 40 people since March. The development was “worrying” and should be closely watched, the team wrote in the British online journal bmj.com, but stressed that the virus, believed to jump from...

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File - The Ministry of Agriculture called in thousands of chicks in poultry farms for fear of transmission of "bird flu" in Deir al-Balah, which had been smuggled in through border tunnels between Egypt and Gaza on February 05, 2013.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 07 Aug 2013; published 07 Aug 2013
1:14
Likely case of bird flu spread by humans reported
updated 02 Apr 2013; published 02 Apr 2013
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China reports 3 cases of new avian flu in humans
updated 04 May 2013; published 04 May 2013
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Four new cases of H7N9 bird flu reported in China
updated 03 Apr 2013; published 03 Apr 2013
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Report: Third man in China dies from unusual bird flu strain
updated 24 Apr 2013; published 24 Apr 2013
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WHO Says H7N9 is "Most Lethal" Bird Flu Virus
updated 29 Apr 2013; published 29 Apr 2013
1:48
Bird Flu Spreads in China

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WASHINGTON - New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction...
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- Once again, the United States has demonstrated its potency by managing to get the Israelis and Palestinians back to peace talks. It has managed to do so despite a backdrop of...
Asia Times
By Emad Mekay BERKELEY - Before an ultimatum to attack an anti-coup sit-in earlier this week, Egypt's new strongman and coup leader General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received one of his...

A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport as Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke at a meeting with tribal leaders in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, Sunday June 13, 2010.
The U.S. has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks, including three strikes on Thursday alone in which a dozen died. The action...
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A banner supporting Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed at Central, Hong Kong's business district, Friday, June 21, 2013.
An encrypted email service thought to have been used by fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has abruptly shut down. Ladar Levison, owner of the Texas-based Lavabit service, said legal reasons prevented him explaining his decision. But he...
photo: AP / Kin Cheung
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with the President of the Union of Myanmar, Thein Sein, in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw, 30 April, 2012.
By David Santoro Myanmar needs to honor its nonproliferation promises. This, in short, is the key finding of the US Department of State's 2013 Report on Adherence to and Compliance with Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Disarmament Agreements and...
photo: UN / Mark Garten
US Navy 030302-N-5362A-003 Military working dog, Camp Patriot, Kuwait, USA
As of Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, at least 2,121 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. The...
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A boa constrictor sits in its cage during a press conference at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks announced a proposed ban on bringing Burmese pythons and eight other kinds of large snakes in the country, saying they threaten the environment.
Autopsies will be done Tuesday in Saint John on the two young brothers believed to have been strangled to death by a python that escaped from a pet store in northern New Brunswick. Connor Barthe, 5, and his brother Noah, 7, were found lifeless in an...
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A Buddhist monk sets himself on fire in Nepal to protest Chinaese repressive rule in Tibet
Article by Yeshe Choesang, WN Correspondent Dharamshala. Dharamshala: - A Tibetan monk reportedly died early Tuesday morning after setting himself on fire near the Boudhanath shrine, one of the holiest Buddhist sites in Kathmandu, Nepal, to protest...
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A NASA satellite image showing the Indus River at the time of floods.  The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 following heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan regions of Pakistan and affected the Indus River basin.
ISLAMABAD — Heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in different parts of Pakistan have killed 80 people and displaced more than 80,000 over the past four days, a Pakistani official said Tuesday. Civil and military authorities...
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