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Suicide car bomb attack on Nigerian church ten dead

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A suicide attacker has driven a car bomb into a Nigerian church, sparking fierce reprisals in which a Christian mob burned a man alive in a day of bloody of violence that has left at least 0 people dead and 145 wounded. Christian youths took to the streets of the northern city of Kaduna with machetes and sticks after the blast, targeting those More >

Two car bombs exploded killing dozens in Syria

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At least two car bombs have exploded in the centre of Syria’s second city Aleppo killing and wounding dozens of people, mainly soldiers,   The blasts occurred at Saadallah al-Jabiri Square near a military officers’ club and a hotel on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding without elaborating that there were “dozens of More >

Egyptian protesters tear down US embassy flag

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Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators tore down the Stars and Stripes at the US embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and replaced it with an Islamic flag on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, an AFP photographer reported. Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement or More >

Imam arrested in Pakistan for evidence tampering

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A Pakistani cleric who submitted evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy has been arrested on suspicion of evidence-tampering and desecrating the Koran. Rimsha has been in custody since she was arrested in the poor Islamabad suburb of Mehrabad more than two weeks ago accused of burning papers containing verses from the Koran, in More >

Low calorie diet boost health but may not prolong life

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A LOW CALORIE diet boosts health but does not prolong life, at least not in rhesus monkeys, scientists reported on Wednesday in a new study into a long-held link between food restriction and longevity. Spanning 23 years, the research found monkeys that ate fewer calories than non-dieting counterparts were healthier but did not live any More >

News,124 Bangladeshi sportsmen jailed over mutiny

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News –  More than 120 Bangladeshi sportsmen, including top internationals, have been jailed for their role in a bloody 2009 mutiny, a prosecutor says, part of the largest trial in the country’s history. Fifty-seven senior army officers were killed during an uprising that began when soldiers at the Bangladeshi Rifles (BDR) headquarters in the More >

Egyptians hunting militants suspected in border killings

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Egyptian troops and police on Tuesday raided homes in search of suspects in an attack that killed 16 soldiers on the border with Israel and prepared to close smuggling tunnels to Gaza, security officials said.

An AFP correspondent witnessed large trucks loaded with bulldozers headed to Rafah, a town on the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip More >

Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian at checkpoint

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Israeli soldiers have shot dead one Palestinian and wounded two others early Monday at a checkpoint near East Jerusalem, Palestinian medical and security sources say.

The victim, 40-year-old Akram Dair from a village in the West Bank near Ramallah, was driving in a car with two other Palestinians when border guards opened fire on them, the More >

Manhunt after two French women paramilitaries killed

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A MASSIVE manhunt was under way after an armed man shot dead two female paramilitary gendarmes in a village in southeast France.

“Two female soldiers from the gendarmerie were killed by firearm” on Sunday evening in the village of Collobrieres, local government chief Paul Mourier told AFP.

He said he had asked for the entire Var department More >

TV crew missing in Philippines

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A THREE-man news team is missing on a remote Philippine island notorious for Islamist militants and kidnappings, police say.

Jordanian Baker Atyani and his two Filipino crew failed to return to their hotel on Jolo island on Tuesday, provincial police chief Antonio Freyra said.

They were working for the Dubai-based Al Arabiya network.

“The Jolo More >

Japanese physicists crack box office code

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UNLIKELY candidates for box office stardom, a team of Japanese physicists may soon be in high demand with moviemakers after devising a formula to predict how successful a film is likely to be.

The team from Tottori University devised a set of mathematical models that measure how much money was spent on advertising before a movie is released, over More >

US voiced fears Syria planning new massacre

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The United States voiced fears that Syria’s government is planning a new massacre, as regime helicopters fired on rebel stronghold towns and raging violence killed over 100 people.

On the political front, the newly elected leader of Syria’s exiled opposition urged President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to his deputy, in line with a plan More >

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