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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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Diana Langevin
The former MI6 head on Wednesday denied that the intelligence agency was responsible for the car accident that killed Princess Diana Langevin & her boyfriend Dodi al Fayed in 1997. The director of special operations for the agency at the time of Diana’s Paris accident Sir Richard Dearlove,
testified at the inquest into the pair’s death that he also believes an operation by rogue agents would have been impossible.
Mohamed Al Fayed Dodi al Fayed’s ….
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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Police of Egypt on Wednesday arrested 74 members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood, Islamists. They were arrested for belonging to an illegal organisation. The Islamists were arrested in dawn raids from their homes in Cairo.
On Sunday the police have arrested 51 Brotherhood members. Another 36 Muslim Brothers were arrested on February 14. They were belong to an office which operates openly in downtown Cairo.
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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Pervez Musharraf the president of Pakistan said that he is not planning to resign or retired despite his allies suffering a crushing defeat in the general election & asserted that he intends to stay in office to guide the democratic transition in the country.
Pervez Musharraf said, “No, not yet. We have to move forward in a way that we bring about a stable democratic government to Pakistan”.
“We are running a parliamentary system. The government is run by the Prime ….
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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Lakeview School bus & several other vehicles crashed in southwestern Minnesota on Wednesday in which four students killed & dozens injured.
The Lakeview School bus was hit by a van around 2:00 p.m. (IST) on a highway south of Cottonwood. The bus then hit a pickup & tipped on its side.
Thirteen students were taken to the nearby hospitals. Classes were canceled tommorow at Lakeview School. The bus was on its regular route, carrying children from kindergarten through 12th grade.
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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A view of damaged after earthquake
An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 hits Indonesia’s Sumatra island at 10:44 am loacal time on Wednesday, in which 70 people killed, thousands of people injured. The epicenter of this 8.2 magnitude earthquake was about 315 km from southeast of Banda Aceh, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Several buildings in Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, have collapsed, & some buildings have caught fire also. The US Geological said, “The ….
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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An English actress Dame Edna’s Madge has died. Dame Edna’s was 100 years old.Perry began playing the sour-faced Madge when she was 80, began appearing alongside Barry Humphries’ famous housewife & “gigastar” in 1987. She played Madge in Dame Edna’s Hollywood, Dame Edna’s Neighbourhood Watch, The Dame Edna Experience and The Dame Edna Satellite Experience.
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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Police attempted to shoot a 12 years old boy who allegedly threatened three teachers with knives in Safety Bay Senior High School in south of Perth. The incident occurred in the staffroom of School about 9am on Tuesday.
Police alleged that the student obtained two knives from the staffroom kitchen & threatened to harm the teachers. When police arrived they found the boy in possession of one knife & “in close proximity” to a pair of scissors. When police told the ….
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Feb 20th, 2008 |
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A helicopter of South Korean army crashed into a mountain near Seoul early on Wednesday in which seven people killed. The UH-1H went down in Yangpyong, about 40 kilometers from east of Seoul around 1:40 a.m., in which 2 pilots, two medical officers & three soldiers killed.
Soldiers were moving the bodies from the mountain to transport them to a military hospital. The accident happened as the chopper was returning to a base after transporting an emergency patient to a military ….
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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Dulmatin
The Indonesian bomb expert Dulmatin a terrorist who built the bombs used in the 2002 Bali atrocity is belived to be killed in the Philippines. The body of a man thought to be Dulmatin, was recovered from a shallow grave in the island of Tawi-tawi.
Dulmatin is believed to have built the devices used in the 2002 Bali atrocity, in which 202 people were killed including 88 Australians. DNA tests underway to confirm if it is ….
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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A view of celebrations in Pakistan after elections
The opposition parties of Pervez Musharraf the President of Pakistan won a big election victory on Tuesday after voters rejected his former ruling party, raising questions about the future of the US ally who has ruled since 1999.
The Counting was continuing with results still awaited in less than 20 seats, but no party was expected to win a majority in the 342-seat National Assembly.
The opposition parties of assassinated ….
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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Twister in Brazil
A twister struck a residential area of Brazil on Tuesday in which at least 5 people killed & 36 injured. The storms ripped apart homes & pitfall residents. The two victims were found outside a house that had been blown away by the storm. It destroyed four homes. Numerous crashes were reported & the authorities urged people to stay off roads.
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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The Two children 2 & 5 years old have been found dead on Tuesday evening in the backyard of a Sydney home. A neighbour said that she has seen a woman attacking the children in McKibbin St, Canley heights.
The NRMA CareFlight helicopter was called to their home, but a spokesman for the service said “there was nothing the doctor & paramedic on board could do”.
Spokesman said, “The children were already dead when we arrived”.
“Police are investigating the ….
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro 81 years old resigned as president & commander-in-chief of Cuba on Tuesday. Castro wrote in a message published in the online version of the official daily Granma, “I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, I repeat, I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state & commander-in-chief”.
Castro announced his resignation almost 19 months after a severe illness caused him to ….
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Feb 19th, 2008 |
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In Guyana the Gunmen have killed 12 people, including three police officers, in an attack on a small town. The gunmen were dressed in military uniforms & took weapons from a police station in Bartica, 130km from south-west of the capital Georgetown.
The six gunmen arrived in Bartica late on Sunday by a speedboat on the Essequibo River & attacked the town’s police station. Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said nine of the civilians killed included five people who were sleeping in ….
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Feb 18th, 2008 |
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Jessica Baty
Jessica Baty the girlfriend of the gunman who killed five people & then shot himself at Northern
Illinois University on Thursday said that there was “no indication he was planning something like this”.
The 28 years old Jessica Baty said, “He wasn’t erratic. He wasn’t delusional. He was Steve & normal”. Jessica Baty said she dated Steven Kazmierczak off & on for two years & had most recently been living with him.
Baty said, “He was ….
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Feb 18th, 2008 |
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A tornado struck a residential area in Prattville, Alabama on Sunday. There were about 9,000 homes were reported without power in Prattville after storms swept across the South, damaging homes in Alabama & in the Florida Panhandle. A tornado destroyed four homes in Escambia County, Florida, with several others damaged.
Across the border in Escambia County, Alabama, two houses were destroyed by a possible tornado in rural Dixie. The storm damaged some structures in Covington County, ….
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Feb 18th, 2008 |
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Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan 86 years old was taken to a hospital of Los Angeles after a fall at her home on Sunday. Nancy Reagan will remain overnight for observation at a hospital in Santa Monica, California. Joanne Drake the chief of staff for the Reagan Foundation said, “She is doing well & is visiting with friends in her room”.
Drake said that Nancy Reagan is staying in the same room where former President ….
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Feb 18th, 2008 |
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An unidentified gunmen attacked on party workers of elections in which, a PML-N candidate for Pakistan’s general election was shot dead & nine other party workers were injured on Monday. Chaudhry Asif Ashraf, a candidate of the PML-N contesting elections to the Punjab provincial assembly, died after being taken to the hospital. His death sparked tension in parts of Lahore but senior PML-N leaders like Shahbaz Sharif appealed to party workers to remain calm.
Ahsan Iqbal spokesman of PML-N said Pakistan ….
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Feb 18th, 2008 |
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Islamic Scholars said that a girl has the full right to choose her husband & if forced to marry against her wish, she can declare the marriage void. Islamic scholars said that a girl cannot be forced to marry. The decision was taken at a meeting which was attended by the members of AIMPLB under the banner of (IFA) Islamic Fiqh Academy.
In meeting they decided that in Islam, the girl has every right to marry the boy of ….
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Feb 16th, 2008 |
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Ontario’s law requiring helmets for motorcyclists is being challenged by a Canadian-Indian Thirty Nine years old Sikh Bajendra Badesha living in northwest of Toronto, tribune reported.
Badesha who wears a turban, says he should be permitted to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. Badesha said, “We want an exemption for our religion, we can’t put a helmet on turban”.
The Ontario Human Rights Commision supports Bajendra Badesha & his lawyer Scott Hutchison, told the court that the law which makes helmets necessary ….
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