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Tamil Tiger rebels training in India: Sri Lanka pm

Remnants of Sri Lanka`s defeated Tamil rebels are undergoing military training in India in a bid to revive their ...

Hamas Appoints First Female Minister In Reshuffle

Hamas leader Ismail Haniya reshuffled his Gaza-based cabinet on Thursday, appointing a female minister to his ...

Indian police claim killing of top militant in Kashmir

Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had shot dead the top commander of a Pakistan-based militant group blamed ...

14 dead, 135 injured in China quake

At least 14 people were killed and 135 others injured in an earthquake that struck a remote area of southwest China ...

Australian survives attack by four-metre croc

An Australian fisherman was recovering in hospital Thursday after surviving a terrifying attack by a four-metre ...

Strong 6.6 quake hits Papua New Guinea

A remote region of Papua New Guinea was rattled by a strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake Thursday, seismologists said, but ...

Series of strong quakes rattles Japan

A series of strong offshore earthquakes of above 6.0 magnitude shook Japan early on Thursday but there was no danger ...

Hundreds in clashes in Cairo`s Tahrir square

Attackers armed with knives and machetes on Wednesday waded into hundreds of pro-democracy activists in Cairo`s Tahrir ...

Baghdad blast kills Iraqi army general

A roadside bomb attack in east Baghdad killed an Iraqi army general on Wednesday while violence across the capital ...

Gaddafi defiant as west mulls action

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi stood firm Wednesday, accusing the West of plotting to seize his country`s oil and the ...

Afghan presiden jokes he is "oppressed" by wife

Afghan President Hamid Karzai joked Tuesday that he was "oppressed" by his wife during a speech to mark International ...

Mass fish death in California Harbor

Millions of dead fish were found floating in a California harbor Tuesday, after apparently becoming trapped and ...

Defiant Kadhafi visits Tripoli journalists` hotel

Embattled Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi turned up at a Tripoli hotel where many foreign journalists are staying late on ...

US, Libyan opposition meet in Cairo: Official

US Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz and other US officials met in Cairo with members of the opposition seeking to topple ...

Japan Approves UN Sanctions Against Libya

Japan approved sanctions Tuesday against Libya, including an assets freeze and travel ban against several regime ...