17 die in Riyadh suicide attack: Al Qaeda blamed for incident
 RIYADH, Nov 9: At least 17 people, including five children, were killed and 122 injured in a suicide bombing at a residential compound in the early hours of Sunday, state television...
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Geelani may meet Rashid in Delhi: Saarc ministerial moot today
NEW DELHI, Nov 9: Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, due in New Delhi on Monday, is expected to meet Jammu and Kashmir’s hardline pro-Pakistan leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani but a...
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Democracy in no danger: Jamali
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali said on Sunday the opposition was not playing its due role in running parliament on proper lines, but hastened to add that...
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Japan’s ruling coalition wins 275 seats
TOKYO, Nov 9: Japan’s three-party ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party won 275 seats in Sunday’s election for the 480-seat Lower House of parliament, Kyodo news...
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Rs4bn credit line approved for TCP to purchase sugar
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The federal government has approved a Rs4 billion credit line for Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) to procure 200,000 tons of sugar from the mills in two instalments....
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Iran rules out access to non-nuclear sites: Enrichment suspension in few days
TEHRAN, Nov 9: Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will not be granted access to sites in Iran that are not related to its nuclear programme, the country’s top...
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Bombing widely Condemned
LONDON, Nov 9: Much of the world on Sunday condemned the “terrorist” bomb attack in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, which the Saudi ambassador here said was a plot by...
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US soldier killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov 9: A US soldier died and another was wounded in a bomb attack in Baghdad late on Saturday, a military spokeswoman told AFP....
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Sharon agrees to exchange prisoners with Hezbollah
AL QUDS, Nov 9: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet narrowly approved on Sunday a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese group Hezbollah that had run into strong opposition in Israel over the...
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US alerts diplomatic staff in S. Arabia
WASHINGTON, Nov 9: The United States has ordered its diplomatic staff and their families in Saudi Arabia to remain in their homes and not to leave Riyadh’s diplomatic enclave after a...
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India using Israeli equipment along LoC
JAMMU, Nov 9: Troops manning the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday claimed they were successfully preventing ‘infiltration’ of rebels into held Kashmir due to new thermal imaging cameras from Israel....
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Registered Madressahs to get Rs3 billion
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: The government has decided to allocate Rs3 billion annually to provide monetary assistance to all the registered seminaries in the country, a source in the interior ministry told...
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Pakistan shocked over bombing
ISLAMABAD, Nov 9: Pakistan on Sunday strongly condemned terrorist attack in Riyadh in which several people were killed....
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10 killed in Kashmir violence
SRINAGAR, Nov 9: Ten people including two children were killed in separate incidents in held Kashmir overnight and on Sunday, a police spokesman said....
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Riyadh vows to hunt down attackers
RIYADH, Nov 9: Saudi Arabia vowed on Sunday to hunt down those linked to a suspected Al Qaeda suicide attack at a Riyadh housing compound which killed 11 people and wounded...
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Delhi tests supersonic missile
BHUBANESWAR, Nov 9: India on Sunday tested a supersonic cruise anti-ship missile, jointly developing with Russia, from a launch site in the eastern state of Orissa, defence officials said....
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