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News for Wednesday, 21 Mar 2012

Salala attack was unintentional and unfortunate: Munter

The US ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, has said the attack on the Salala checkpost in Mohmand Agency was unintentional and unfortunate, and preventing such attacks from happening in the...

India accused of poverty ‘smokescreen’, Muslims poorest religious minority

India has been accused of creating a “smokescreen” to conceal the true scale of poverty in the country after the government claimed to have lifted more than 50 million people...

It’s business as usual for the PM

Irrespective of what fate holds for him in the contempt court and not even bothered by the possibility of his conviction in the case, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani remains...

Stop using Palestinian cause to justify terror: Fayyad

Extremists must stop using the Palestinian cause to justify their acts of violence, prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday after a deadly attack on a French Jewish school. “It is...

Colombia army kills 24 leftist rebels

Colombian troops killed 24 FARC leftist rebels and captured 10 others during a gun battle in the country’s eastern Arauca province, President Juan Manuel Santos said in a Twitter message...

Belarus strongman defends ‘tragic’ executions

Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday called the execution of two men controversially convicted of bombing the Minsk metro a “tragedy,” but said he had no doubts about their guilt....

British hostage Judith Tebbutt released in Somalia

British hostage Judith Tebbutt, kidnapped in Kenya over six months ago by gunmen who killed her husband, said Wednesday she was “happy” after she was released in Somalia to be...

Man claiming to be French shooter vows to post videos online

French police said Wednesday they were probing a call made to a news channel by a man claiming to be the killer of seven people, who said footage of the...

French Muslims fear backlash after ‘Islamist’ shootings

French Muslims said Wednesday they feared a backlash and increased inter-religious tensions as police besieged a suspected Islamist militant who killed seven people including three Jewish children. On the streets of...

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