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Dawn
05 Jan 2014
A day after he called for a separate province for the Urdu-speaking people, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain and his top lieutenants took pains to explain on Saturday that no demand for the division of Sindh was made at the public meeting in Hyderabad, the previous day, and that the party only wanted equitable distribution of resources....(size: 2.6Kb)
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Toronto Sun
05 Jan 2014
After a three-day handout that saw tempers flare in long lineups to get the ice storm aid, the province has ended the program ... The program will now move to other parts of the province to help those impacted by the storm ... The province gave out more than 21,600 gift cards and ......(size: 1.4Kb)
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The Japan News
05 Jan 2014
Those fines vary by province and municipality, but are generally levied on the basis of income ... In August, for example, I visited Yangchun, a farm town in the mountains of Fujian Province where the fine was around $819 per extra-legal child—a considerable burden that, I was told, exceeds the average annual income of most villagers (rural per capita income for all of China was around $1,300 in 2012)....(size: 5.1Kb)
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05 Jan 2014
Provincial spokesman Dhari al-Rishawi said Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen are pressing their campaign to rout al-Qaida from Fallujah and Ramadi, two main cities in the western Anbar province ... Hadi Razeij, head of the Anbar province police force, said police had left the city center entirely and had positioned themselves on the edge of town....(size: 2.9Kb)
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WPXI
05 Jan 2014
The clashes began Friday after residents accused the al-Qaida-linked fighters of killing a doctor in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Fighting quickly spread to rebel-held areas of the northeast province of Idlib and the central province of Hama ... Rebels seized the ISIL compound in the town of Manbij in the northern province of Aleppo, the Observatory reported....(size: 3.1Kb)
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The Australian
05 Jan 2014
And fighting in Anbar province killed 65 people - eight soldiers, two government-allied tribesmen and 55 militants from the al-Qa'ida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, security officials said. It is the worst violence to hit the province in years, and the first time militants have exercised such open control in major cities since the height of the bloody insurgency that followed the US-led invasion of 2003....(size: 4.5Kb)
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National Public Radio
05 Jan 2014
Al-Qaida-linked militants have taken over parts of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province. You may recall that the province was among the most unstable during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq ... But last week's capture of positions in Ramadi and large parts of Falluja was the first time in years that Sunni insurgents had taken ground in the province's major cities and held their positions for days."....(size: 2.0Kb)
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Dawn
05 Jan 2014
Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said coordination and understanding between his government, frontier corps and intelligence agencies has improved in terms of maintaining law and order in the restive province ... Dr Baloch's predecessor Nawab Aslam Raisani, the former chief minister Balochistan, had repeatedly stated that frontier corps had established a parallel government in the province....(size: 2.2Kb)
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Huffington Post
05 Jan 2014
The clashes began Friday after residents accused the al-Qaida-linked fighters of killing a doctor in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. Fighting quickly spread to rebel-held areas of the northeast province of Idlib and the central province of Hama ... Rebels seized the ISIL compound in the town of Manbij in the northern province of Aleppo, the Observatory reported....(size: 3.5Kb)
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Xinhua
05 Jan 2014
4 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi security forces on Saturday lost control of Fallujah, a city in Anbar province some 50 km west of Baghdad, to some tribesmen and al-Qaida fighters, a security source said ... The clashes in Anbar province entered their sixth day after tensions flared up in the western province on Monday when Iraqi police dismantled an anti-government protest site outside it capital city of Ramadi....(size: 2.2Kb)
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Chicago Sun-Times
05 Jan 2014
Hadi Razeij, head of the Anbar province police force, said police had left the city center entirely and had positioned themselves on the edge of town ... Fallujah, along with the capital of Anbar province, Ramadi, was a stronghold of Sunni insurgents during the U.S.-led war ... In a speech in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said government forces would press on to clear the province of militants....(size: 3.7Kb)
