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News for Monday, 19 Sep 2011

Ali Zafar hosts special screening in Pakistan

Actor Ali Zafar hosted a special screening of his movie ‘Mere Brother ki Dulhan’ in Lahore for his close friends and family members earlier this week. The Pakistani singer-actor is...

China shuts solar plant after violent protests

China shut down a solar panel factory on Monday after hundreds of angry residents staged days of violent protests over pollution, the second such incident in as many months. A...

Kenyan charged for Britons’ murder

A man was charged in a Kenyan court on Monday following the murder of a British tourist and the abduction of his wife at a remote beach resort near the...

Islamic party protests turn violent across Bangladesh

Street marches by members of Bangladesh’s biggest Islamic party seeking the release of its leaders from jail turned violent across the country on Monday, with at least 70 people wounded...

Iran arrests six working for BBC

Iran has arrested five men and a woman for gathering information for the BBC’s Farsi language service, a state television website reported, citing an informed source. “These identified individuals were...

Five killed by Syrian forces

Security forces massed in the flashpoint province of Daraa, where demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime first erupted six months ago, activists said on Monday. “More than 30 buses carrying...

Gaddafi’s son sighted in Libya

Fierce fighting raged Monday in Bani Walid as new regime fighters attacked the oasis town where a son of Muammar Gaddafi is believed holed up, possibly with his father, said...

20 killed as protesters throng Yemen capital

Yemeni security forces Monday killed 20 people, including three dissident soldiers and two children, raising the death toll to 46 since Sunday, medics said, as protesters thronged Sanaa’s streets. The wave...

Thousands protest against nuclear power in Japan

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Tokyo on Monday calling for an end to nuclear energy in Japan after the March 11 disaster that sparked the worst atomic crisis...

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