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India invites tenders ‘to build tallest statue’
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
The Indian state of Gujarat has invited bidders from around the world to help build what they say would be the world’s tallest statue. The latest issue of the...
UN debates lifting sanctions on Afghan ex-Taliban
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
The UN Security Council is meeting to consider the removal of a number of former Taliban figures in Afghanistan from a UN sanctions blacklist. Western diplomats say the...
Bollywood actor to fight new drinking age laws (AFP)
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
AFP – Top Bollywood actor Imran Khan said on Friday that he will challenge in court a decision to raise the age for buying alcohol in India’s entertainment...
Flooded Chinese river at highest level since 1955 (AP)
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
AP – A flooded river in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years, the government said Friday as thousands of train passengers were stranded...
Pakistan protests to US, Afghans over incursions (AP)
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
AP – Pakistan has lodged a protest with the U.S. and Afghanistan over border incursions by NATO aircraft and militants.
Japan to start cleaning nuclear runoff water
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
TOKYO (AFP) – Emergency crews at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant Friday prepared to start decontaminating more than 100,000 tonnes of highly radioactive water...
Malaysia suspends officers over naked squat claims
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysia has suspended two immigration officers as it investigates allegations that they forced a pair of Singaporean women to do squats...
Tremlett rips through S. Lanka in third England Test
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
SOUTHAMPTON, England (AFP) – Chris Tremlett marked his return to the Rose Bowl with a Test-best haul to leave Sri Lanka on 177 for nine when rain forced an early...
Can India’s Power Thieves Be Stopped?
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
To run his fan, lamp, and small television, Sikander strings a homemade wire hook over power cables outside his one-room New Delhi house. “The cables are right...
Reporting Under Fire: a Survey of a Century of War Correspondents
juni 17, 2011by latadmin
MANCHESTER, England — Within a few hundred yards of each other in Old Trafford lie the Manchester United Football Club and the Imperial War Museum North. One is a...
