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Bangladesh investors riot over stock market fall
december 19, 2010by latadmin
Hundreds of angry investors have staged protests in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, after the stock exchange saw its steepest ever fall in a day. Reports said they threw...
Afghan troops shoot rebels dead to end siege (AFP)
december 19, 2010by latadmin
AFP – Troops shot dead rebels at an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan Sunday to end a day-long seige following two attacks by militants that killed...
U.N. council meets as North Korea raises the alert (Reuters)
december 19, 2010by latadmin
Reuters – The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session on Sunday to try to cool tensions on the Korean peninsula as North Korea’s military was reported...
Tendulkar adds to legend in S.Africa cricket Test (AFP)
december 19, 2010by latadmin
AFP – The legend of Sachin Tendulkar continued to grow on Sunday as the Indian batting maestro hit his 50th Test century and shared a remarkable partnership with...
Biden: US out of Afghanistan by 2014 (AP)
december 19, 2010by latadmin
AP – Despite uneven progress in Afghanistan, Vice President Joe Biden said next summer’s planned withdrawal would be more than a token reduction and that the...
Security Council meets on Korea tensions (AP)
december 19, 2010by latadmin
AP – The U.N. Security Council met in emergency session Sunday amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean warning of a...
NATO kills 20 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan (AP)
december 18, 2010by latadmin
AP – NATO troops killed more than 20 insurgents in fighting in eastern Afghanistan Saturday after a patrol came under fire, the coalition said, while in the north,...
SKorea delays firing drills amid NKorea threat (AP)
december 18, 2010by latadmin
AP – Military maneuvers planned by South Korean troops will be delayed because of bad weather on a border island shelled by North Korea last month, as Russia and...
Bangladeshi engineer killed in Afghanistan kidnap (AFP)
december 18, 2010by latadmin
AFP – Kidnappers in Afghanistan killed a Bangladeshi working for a South Korean firm and are holding three road workers hostage after storming their camp at...
Merkel meets Karzai and visits troops in Afghanistan
december 18, 2010by latadmin
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Saturday to boost German troops' morale for a war...
