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Flood waters threatens to submerge Thatta; forces mass exodus in Pakistan
Daily News & Analysis
Place: ISLAMABAD | Agency: PTI Flood waters today breached more protective dykes and threatened to submerge the southern city of Thatta and nearby regions forcing a mass exodus, even as the UN warned that an estimated 72000 children were at "high risk ...
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ICC complains to UNSC against Kenya's hosting of Bashir
Hindustan Times
PTI Angry over Sudan President Omar-al Bashir's open defiance of its arrest warrants, the International Criminal Court has complained to the UN Security Council that Kenya, which hosted him this week, had failed its obligation to arrest him. ...
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Camp Hope families wait in Chile's Atacama Desert for trapped miners
Telegraph.co.uk
As the 33 miners trapped by in a Chilean mine come to terms with their situation, Philip Sherwell travels to the north of Chile and finds a miraculous story of survival. By Philip Sherwell at Camp Hope in the Atacama desert The roaring fires fend off ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Qaeda in Iraq Says It Was Behind Latest Attacks
New York Times
By ANTHONY SHADID BAGHDAD — Insurgents affiliated with Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility on Saturday for a wave of car bombings, roadside mines and hit-and-run attacks this week in at least 13 Iraqi cities and towns, a deadly and relentless ...
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Ottawa arrest unrelated to terrorism
CBC.ca
Secrecy surrounded Saturday's court appearance of a fourth man arrested by officers investigating an alleged Ottawa-based terrorism cell. There was a broad publication ban on charges and arguments at the man's bail hearing in Ottawa and journalists ...
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India to route flood relief to Pakistan through UN
The Hindu
New Delhi has accepted Islamabad's suggestion to route its offer of $5 million in relief materials for flood victims through the United Nations system. This suggestion was officially made on Friday evening when Deputy High Commissioner Rahul ...
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Independents could go separate ways
Sydney Morning Herald
THE bloc of three rural independents could split and negotiate separately in shaping the next government, amid deep divisions over key policy questions. New South Wales MP Tony Windsor said it should not be assumed the bloc formed with fellow NSW ...
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Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG — Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda's foreign minister says ...
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UNICEF scrambles to save malnourished children in Pakistan
The Hindu
A Pakistani girl prays in the historical Badshahi mosque in Lahore on Friday. People across Pakistan held special prayers for flood victims. Photo: AP. The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF immediately needs 80 million dollars to provide emergency ...
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The Hindu
Paris protesters rally against Iran stoning sentence
euronews
French feminists and protesters have rallied in Paris in support of an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning. The case of 43 year-old mother of two Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani has sparked international outrage after she was found guilty of ...
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euronews
China organizes government probe into deadly plane crash
CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff Beijing, China (CNN) -- China's State Council has organized a task force of six central government agencies to investigate the country's first fatal passenger plane crash in almost six years, state media reported Saturday. ...
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Zuma criticises S.African strike, confident of deal
AFP
CAPE TOWN — President Jacob Zuma on Saturday spoke out against striking South African workers for abandoning hospitals and schools, saying he was confident of a deal to halt an 11-day old public sector walkout. An indefinite strike since August 18 by ...
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