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Clashes at Cairo demo calling on Morsi to resign
CAIRO: Demonstrators calling for Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo late Friday.
Hundreds of people had marched on Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday for the protest, called by a number of opposition groups.
The demonstrators, most of them teenagers, threw molotov cocktails at the police who replied with volleys of tear gas ... |
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Russia sends advanced anti-ship missiles to Syria
WASHINGTON: US officials on Friday claimed that Russia has sent Syria advanced anti-ship missiles, in a bid to bolster Assad regime's defence power.
The development came even as much of the international community pleaded Moscow not to stop supply weapons to President Bashar al-Assad's forces.
One of the US officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told a news agency that the latest Ya... |
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Cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' kills at least 14 in Bangladesh
DHAKA: At least 14 people were killed on Thursday as cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines, damaging thousands of thatched houses and forcing evacuation of over one million people from low-lying areas.
"All the deaths were reported from the southwestern coastlines where the cyclone hit with its maximum strength before being weakened gradually," said a disaster m... |
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Nigeria police uncover second 'baby factory' in a week
LAGOS: Nigerian police on Wednesday said they had found six pregnant teenage girls in a raid on a house and arrested three people suspected of planning to sell their babies.
It was the second so-called baby-factory uncovered in a week in the west African nation.
"We acted on intelligence information and raided the house in Enugu (city) where we met six girls, under 17 and all pregnant, and f... |
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Boat with 150 Rohingya Muslims capsizes off Myanmar
YANGON: A boat carrying up to 150 Rohingya Muslims fleeing a cyclone has capsized off Myanmar's coast, the UN said Tuesday, as the storm threatened to strike flood-prone Rakhine State over coming days.
The boat went missing on Monday night after it left Pauktaw township, a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said.
Thousands of people displaced by commun... |
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Myanmar moves internal refugees as cyclone nears
YANGON: Myanmar on Sunday began moving people into emergency shelters as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees.
About 140,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in flimsy tents or makeshift housing are seen as particularly vulnerable to cyclone Mahasen, which was gathering strength in the Bay of Bengal.
The cyclone is ... |
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Cleveland abduction: Rape culprit’s family disowns him
LONDON: The family of the man who abducted and raped three women in his Cleveland home for roughly a decade has disowned him, saying he must suffer the consequences for his crimes.
Ariel Castro’s daughter, Angie, 29, described him as ‘the most evil, vile, demonic criminal,’ adding ‘he that he is dead for her’.
Castro’s another daughter, 22-year-old Arlene, vowed never to see him again.
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Survivor pulled from Bangladesh ruins after 17 days
SAVAR, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi rescuers pulled a woman alive from the ruins of a collapsed garment factory complex on Friday after she spent 17 days trapped in a basement under the rubble.
Hours after officials had announced the death toll had surged past the 1,000 mark, recovery teams who had long given up any hope of finding more survivors were stunned to hear the voice of a woman calling for... |
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US could keep 9 Afghanistan bases: Karzai
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that he could allow the United States to keep nine military bases in the country as part of negotiations over a long-term security pact with Washington.
After more than 11 years of US-led military intervention in Afghanistan, the two countries are hammering out a deal to allow a limited US troop presence to remain when the international coaliti... |
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Bangladesh building death toll crosses 750
DHAKA: The death toll from the collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 750 on Wednesday after a dozen more bodies were found in the rubble overnight, a fortnight after the disaster.
Army spokesman Lieutenant Mir Rabbi told that the "toll now stands at 752" but a general overseeing the recovery operation warned that it was likely to rise further.
More than 3,000 garment wor... |
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