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BERLIN. -Angela Merkel, an unflappable pastor’s daughter, cemented her title as the world’s most powerful woman yesterday, triumphantly romping home to a third term as German chancellor. Her position during what may be the last of her juggernaut election
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ISLAMABAD. – At least 56 people were killed and 120 others injured when a twin suicide bomb attack hit a Christian church in Pakistan’s northwest city of Peshawar yesterday, hospital sources said. Chief executive of Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, which admitted all the
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JINAN. — Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of
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BAGHDAD. — The UN yesterday warned against revenge attacks in Iraq after two blasts killed 73 people in a Shiite area of Baghdad a day after a Sunni mosque was bombed. Saturday’s bombings struck near funeral tents for a tribal sheikh in the Sadr City district of north
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JAFFNA. — Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party won a landslide victory yesterday in landmark elections in the battle-scarred north, raising hopes of some degree of self-rule for the ethnic minority after decades of war. The opposition Tamil National Alliance won 30 out of 38 seats in
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MAIDUGURI. — The death toll from an attack in north-eastern Nigeria that saw insurgents dressed as soldiers set up checkpoints and gun down travellers on a highway has risen to at least 142, an official said yesterday. “We recovered 55 bodies on Wednesday and 87 on
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JINAN, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) — Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.
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A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed at least 60 people and injured more than 100 others, officials say.
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At least 59 people were killed and 175 injured in Saturday’s attack on a Nairobi shopping centre, the Kenyan interior minister has said.
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Militant gunmen stormed a shopping mall in Nairobi on Saturday killing at least 25 people, including children, and sending scores fleeing into shops, a cinema and onto the streets in search of safety.
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SADC has appointed a Tanzanian woman Dr. Stergomena L. Tax, who was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of East African Cooperation as the new SADC Executive Secretary.
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President Kenyatta will not attend a key United Nations meeting in New York to avoid a power vacuum in the country.
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An armed group stormed an upmarket shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi Saturday, killing at least three people and sparking a fierce gun battle, police said.
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BEIRUT – A new front is emerging in Syria’s war, as mainstream rebels come to blows with jihadists, endangering their common goal of ousting Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
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THE HAGUE – The world’s chemical weapons watchdog has received details on Syria’s programme and arsenal, which it has been tasked with dismantling, it said Friday.