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General Strike after Attack on Pakistani Shi'ites - Voice of America

General Strike after Attack on Pakistani Shi'ites
Voice of America
Photo: AP A general strike is in effect in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, following Friday's suicide bombing that targeted minority Shi'ites and killed at least 57 people. More than 160 others were wounded by the explosion at a Shi'ite rally ...
Death toll from Pakistan suicide bombing rises to 73CNN
Pakistan on high alert after blastAljazeera.net
TTP claims responsibility for Quetta, Lahore attacksHindustan Times
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'180 degree' shift in PA attitude following talks launch - Jerusalem Post

'180 degree' shift in PA attitude following talks launch
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF Palestinian delegation "more positive" after meetings in Washington, says report; Erekat denies report that negotiating teams scheduled to meet in West Bank beginning of next week. Palestinian members of the peace talks delegation ...
Rocket fired from Gaza hits IsraelAljazeera.net
Rocket fired from Gaza hits Israel, no casualtiesReuters
Gaza militants fire Qassam into southern IsraelHa'aretz
BBC News -Independent -Washington Post
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Canterbury earthquake really three quakes? - Stuff.co.nz

Canterbury earthquake really three quakes?
Stuff.co.nz
Scientists are investigating whether the 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck Christchurch and its surrounding communities today was actually two or three shocks in quick succession. The US Geological Survey (USGS ) in Golden, Colorado, has said that ...
Police curfew after NZ earthquakeBBC News
New Zealand Quake Causes 'Significant' DamageVoice of America
Canterbury quake: As it happenedTVNZ
Telegraph.co.uk -Los Angeles Times -Herald Sun
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UPS Cargo Plane Crashes Near Dubai - Wall Street Journal

UPS Cargo Plane Crashes Near Dubai
Wall Street Journal
DUBAI—A United Parcel Service Inc. cargo plane crashed Friday evening after takeoff near Dubai, killing two pilots in the package delivery giant's first fatal aircraft accident. Associated Press Smoke rose from the site ...
Factbox: Details of cargo plane which crashed in DubaiReuters
Middle East Plane crashes near Dubai airportAljazeera.net
UPS 747 Freighter Crashes on Takeoff in Dubai, Kills TwoBloomberg
Telegraph.co.uk -Daily Mail -National
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New Zealand plane crash kills nine - The Guardian

New Zealand plane crash kills nine
The Guardian
Nine people, including a British man, have died in a plane crash in New Zealand. The aircraft, carrying a party of skydivers and tourists, crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff from Fox Glacier airport on the west coast of the South ...
Nine dead as small plane crashes in New ZealandReuters
Plane crash kills 9 in New ZealandCNN
Nine die in New Zealand air crashBBC News
abc13.com -New Zealand Herald -The Epoch Times
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Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing - The Guardian

Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing
The Guardian
Violence has broken out at the first public signing for Tony Blair's memoirs, with anti-war protesters hurling shoes and eggs at the former prime minister. The projectiles did not hit Blair as he arrived at a bookshop in Dublin, Ireland, to be greeted ...
Shoes, eggs hurled at Blair in DublinThe Hindu
Shoe, eggs hurled at ex-Brit PM Blair in DublinThe Associated Press
Protesters Pelt Blair With Shoes And EggsSky News
BBC News -AFP -Monsters and Critics.com
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Nine injured in wildfires in Russia's Volgograd region still in hospital - RIA Novosti

Nine injured in wildfires in Russia's Volgograd region still in hospital
RIA Novosti
A total of nine people injured in wildfires in Russia's Volgograd Region remain hospitalized, with another 19 receiving ambulatory treatment, a local emergency ministry department said in a statement on Saturday. Wildfires raging in Russia's Volgograd ...
Eight die as wildfires consume Russian villagesReuters
Fires ravage central RussiaCNN
8 killed in latest wave of Russian forest firesThe Associated Press
AFP -BBC News -RT
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Volcano erupts again in Indonesia - Aljazeera.net

Volcano erupts again in Indonesia
Aljazeera.net
Mount Sinabung blast heard eight kilometres away as thousands of residents forced to flee for the second time in a week. A volcano on Indonesia's western-most island of Sumatra has unleashed its most violent eruption so far after laying dormant for 400 ...
Indonesia's North Sumatra volcano continues to eruptXinhua
Indonesian volcano spews new burst of ashThe Associated Press
Volcano spews in Indonesia, sends villagers fleeingCNN
CBC.ca -BBC News -The Press Association
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Ahmadinejad: Middle East Peace Talks Doomed To Fail - RTT News

Ahmadinejad: Middle East Peace Talks Doomed To Fail
RTT News
(RTTNews) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted Friday that the recently re-launched peace talks in Washington between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would fail, and urged the Palestinians to continue with their armed resistance to ...
Iran says Mideast peace talks doomed to failXinhua
Iranian opposition leader kept from anti-Israel ralliesCNN
Al-Quds rally condemns Israeli occupation of Palestinians' landDaily Times
Ha'aretz -Los Angeles Times -The Guardian
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Netherlands coalition talks fail - BBC News

Netherlands coalition talks fail
BBC News
Negotiations to form a coalition in the Netherlands have collapsed after the leader of the far-right Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, walked out. Mr Wilders said he did not trust some members of the Christian Democrats to adhere to any agreement reached. ...
Dutch coalition negotiations faileuronews
Coalition talks with ultra-right Freedom Party in Netherlands failITAR-TASS
Muslim cleric calls for beheading of Dutch politicianReuters
Bloomberg -Telegraph.co.uk -Expatica Netherlands
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