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News for Saturday, 8 Jan 2011

Ouattara says rival Gbagbo ordered I Coast violence

PARIS/ABIDJAN - Ivory Coast's presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara said on Thursday he had proof his rival, Laurent Gbagbo, had instigated post-election violence and ordered foreign agents to carry out killings....

Two dead, 400 hurt in Algerian riots

ALGIERS - Two people were killed and 400 injured, 300 of them police, in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Oul Kablia said...

‘UN should publish Darfur reports’

KHARTOUM - The United Nations should publish reports on rights abuses and a humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region where violence has flared in recent months, a coalition of rights...

Russian official arrested for 1.3 million dollar bribe demand

MOSCOW - A senior Russian regional official has been arrested on suspicion of demanding a massive 1.3 million-dollar bribe from a group of businessmen, Russian television reported on Saturday.

On the clock

While the federal government is out of the doldrums for the time being, one is not sure when the MQM is going to spring another surprise yet again, sending alarm...

Too intrusive

There are things you just shouldnt say even if you mean them. US Ambassador Cameron Munter must have ignored the basic principle of diplomacy when he tried to justify American...

Faith and religion

The other day I heard a debate between Tony Blair and the author Christopher Hitchens on the BBC on whether religion had done more harm than good. Blair is an...

Plunging headlong

Qadri the man who brutally killed the Punjab Governor, Salmaan Taseer in his own possessed demeanor had interpreted the law to kill the man he was supposed to protect. Some...

A voice of reason

It was simply outrageous. The gruesome murder of Governor Salmaan Taseer has traumatised the nation already shaken by terrorism which has claimed thousands of innocent lives over the past decade....

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