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Yemenis stage mass rival rallies
Jul 2nd
SANAA: Hundreds of thousands of protesters staged huge rallies across Yemen on Friday calling for the departure of all figures in the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been hospitalised in Riyadh for nearly a month.
Saleh supporters also…
Two dead in Peshawar blast, 13 injured
Jun 30th
PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and 13 others sustained injuries when a vehicle blew up with a loud blast at Shoba Chowk here on Thursday, Geo News reported. The gas cylinder of the vehicle blew up and caused the blast, Senior Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bashir Ahmed Bilour confirmed. The injured and dead were shifted to [...]
Peshawar: City of death and hope
Jun 30th
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/6700/peshawar-city-of-death-and-hope/
NASA clears last space shuttle for July 8 blast-off
Jun 29th
FLORIDA: NASA managers cleared space shuttle Atlantis on Tuesday for a July 8 launch, approving it for a cargo run to the International Space Station and the final flight in the 30-year-old shuttle program.
Lift-off of the shuttle manned by a minimal …
Afghan hotel assault; all attackers killed
Jun 29th
KABUL: Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a top Kabul hotel, sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter in an assault that left at least 10 people dead Wednesday.
Red tracer bullets arced through the night s…
Hague court issues arrest warrant for Gaddafi
Jun 28th
TRIPOLI: The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and rebels trying to oust him said their forces had advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of the capital Tripoli.
The court approved warrants fo…
Afghan hospital suicide bomb toll rises to 38
Jun 27th
KABUL: The toll from a suicide car bombing at an Afghan hospital rose to 38 Sunday, a local official said, days after President Barack Obama said 10,000 US troops would leave the country this year.
Many of the victims in Logar province, about 75 kilom…
Multan blast kills three policemen
Jun 26th
MULTAN: At least three policemen were killed and several hurt in blast at a security check post, DCO Multan said, Geo News reported.
Police, and rescue teams have reached the spot. Casualties might go up and nature of the blast was uncertain. Victims …
Multan blast hurt several security men
Jun 26th
MULTAN: A blast has been reported in Multan at security check post injuring several security personnel, Geo News reported.
30 die in Afghan hospital car bomb: officials
Jun 25th
PULI ALAM: Thirty people were killed in a suicide car bombing Saturday targeting a hospital in Afghanistan”s Logar province, just south of the capital Kabul, a provincial official said.
“A suicide car bomb attacker targeted a hospital in Azra distri…
