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News for Friday, 20 Apr 2012

Ali Zafar, Shahid Kapoor to star together in new film

Ali Zafar will play Shahid Kapoor's older brother in the much talked-about Hindi remake of ‘Vettai’. Madhavan who played the older brother’ part in the original, is out of the...

Clashes in Bahrain ahead of F1 practices

Bahraini security forces clashed with protesters against Bahrain’s controversial Grand Prix in Shiite villages on Friday despite beefed up security for the start of practice sessions. The overnight clashes between...

Suspected Islamists kill eight in northern Nigeria

Suspected members of Islamist group Boko Haram have killed at least eight people, including a policeman, in separate attacks in restive northern Nigeria, police said Friday. The attacks, which also...

Qaeda, army clashes kill 20 in Yemen

Clashes between Al-Qaeda militants and the army on the outskirts of Zinjibar in Yemen’s restive south left 20 people dead, mostly jihadists, as soldiers advanced towards the city, the defence...

Sarkozy’s mea culpa as French presidential campaign winds up

Nicolas Sarkozy apologised for his mis-steps Friday, the final day of campaigning in France’s presidential election, while his main rival Francois Hollande was increasingly confident of victory. The latest polls ahead...

Political tension eases in Mali as prisoners freed

Mali’s transition premier, the astrophysicist Cheick Modibo Diarra, pondered the make up of his interim government Friday in a defused political climate after the military released 22 political prisoners. The military...

South Sudan orders troop pull out from Heglig oil field

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Friday ordered the immediate withdrawal of his troops from the contested Heglig oil field, as the two former civil war foes inched back from...

UN awaits Syria green light for $180m relief plan

A $180 million draft plan for delivering humanitarian aid for Syria’s one million needy has been drawn up and is awaiting the green light from Syria, the United Nations said...

Syria activists call protests as bomb kills 10

Syrian activists protested against Bashar al-Assad on Friday, saying the Syrian president will be defeated, as a bomb the government blamed on terrorists killed 10 security personnel. The latest violence, which...

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