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Rains wreak havoc across Southeast Asia
More than 100 people have died and tens of thousands of others have been displaced as monsoon rains continue to wreak havoc across Southeast Asia. In Cambodia and southern Vietnam, more than a 100 people have died this week in the worst flooding along the Mekong River in 11 years. Heavy rain swamped homes, washed away bridges and forced thousands of.. More -
Egyptians gather to 'reclaim revolution'
Egyptian activists have gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square to press the ruling military to speed up the transfer of power to civilians and revoke emergency laws once used by Hosni Mubarak, the ousted president, against his opponents. Activists said they expect thousands to join the protests, which they call "reclaiming the revolution", amid.. More -
Shanghai subway crash injures hundreds
More than200 people have been injuredafter a subway train hit the rear end of another train in Shanghai, China's official state media has said. No deaths were immediately reported, but pictures posted on Chinese websites showed bloodied passengers, some lying onthe floor apparently unconscious and others with injuries to their heads The train systems.. More -
Libyan fighters capture Sirte airport
Forces loyal to Libya's interim government say theyhavecaptured the airport in Sirte, the birthplace of the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Fighters belonging to National Transitional Council said on Wednesday they were in control of the airport after intense fightingin the coastal city, one of the last of two bastions of support for the deposed.. More -
Deaths in US listeria outbreak
At least 13 people have died due to an outbreak of listeria in the United States, health officials have said. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that 18 states have reported 72 infections, linked to tainted cantaloupes, a type of melon,from one of the four strains of listeria involved in the outbreak. Four of the.. More -
Western states backdown on UN Syria sanctions
Western powers have dropped earlier calls for immediate sanctions against Syria by the UN Security Council in the face of veto threats from China and Russia, as activists reported more civilian deaths in the country. Put togetherby Britain, France, Germany and Portugal, with backing from the United States, the scaled-back draft resolution, which.. More -
Israel okays new buildings in east Jerusalem
Israel's government has granted the go-ahead for construction of 1,100 new housing units in illegally occupied east Jerusalem, raising already heightened tensions fuelled by last week's Palestinian move to seek full UN membership. Israel's interior ministry said on Tuesday that the homes would be built in Gilo, a Jewish enclave in southeast Jerusalem... More -
Blast hits Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel
An explosion has destroyed an Egyptian gas pipeline in the Sinai that supplies Israel and Jordan, security sources and witnesses say. At least three gunmen in a van opened fire on a gas installation before anexplosion hit the pipeline near the town of al-Arish in the north of the Sinaipeninsula, witnesses said on Tuesday. A local hospital said one.. More -
US Senate averts government shutdown
The US Senate has reached a deal to avert a government shutdown and make billions of dollars of aid available to victims of recent natural disasters. The deal, made on Monday, would end a standoff that has threatened disaster aid delivery to thousands of citizens and put the government at risk of having to shut down operations for the third time this.. More -
Typhoon lashes eastern Philippines
A powerful typhoon has made landfall in the northern Philippines, where authorities have ordered more than 100,000 people to seek refuge from heavy rains and gusts of up to 170km per hourthat have blown away roofs, uprooted small trees and toppled power lines. At least one person, a baby, was killed when Typhoon Nesat made landfall before dawn on Tuesday.. More -
Mass grave of Libyan prisoners found
A mass grave with the remains of 1,700 prisoners killed during a notorious crackdown by Muammar Gaddafi's regimehas been found, the country's new rulers say. News of the gruesome find came on Sunday as hundreds of fighters of the National Transitional Councilthrust into Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown. NATO warplanes pounded the coastal city for a second.. More -
Libya fighters gain ground in fight for Sirte
Libyan interim government forces have mounted a round of new attacks in Muammar Gaddafi's home town of Sirte, getting as close as half a kilometre from the centre of theformer leader's coastal stronghold. Pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns and loaded with National Transitional Council (NTC)fighters have raced into the town's centre, backed up.. More -
Protesters arrested in anti-Wall Street rally
The New York police say at leasteighty protestershave beenarrested in a march as several hundred protestersmarched through the streets of lower Manhattan. Saturday's protests were part of a series of demonstrations in the past week againstagainst bank bailouts, the mortgage crisis and the US state of Georgia's execution of Troy Davis. The marchers.. More -
Deaths in Nepal plane crash
An aircraft carrying tourists to view Mount Everest has crashed while attempting to land in dense fog in Nepal, police and witnesses say. A witness said on Sunday that 18 bodies were pulled out of the wreckage of the aircraft, which was carrying 19 people. The Beechcraft aircraft belonging to Buddha Air was carrying 16 foreign tourists and three crew.. More -
Abbas stakes Palestinian claim to state at U.N.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has handed over a request to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking the United Nations to admit the state of Palestine as a full member. In his address, Abbas said he was ready to return to negotiations based on the 1967 borders, saying he did not want to 'isolate or delegitimize' Israel. But he maintained previous peace.. More
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