At least 2.5 million people in India are marooned after heavy monsoon rains lashed their villages, a government minister said.
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Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.
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A car bomb blew up as a Pakistani police bus travelled across a bridge in the country's northwest on Thursday, killing 11 people, police said.
HEYET Net- Reuters
A suicide bomber detonated Wednesday afternoon his explosive-rigged car, targeting a US military convoy at Maliya crossroads of Mosul, at a spot near the location of another suicide attack that targeted a US military patrol earlier on Wednesday, reported a police source.
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12 persons were injured Wednesday in two separate roadside bombings in Baghdad.
Floodwaters raged through more than 1,000 villages unaccustomed to high water after a river in northeast India burst its banks, UNICEF India and government officials said Tuesday.
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The health ministry in the PA caretaker government has warned that the continued Israeli occupation authority's delay in opening the Gaza crossings would entail serious repercussions on lives of many patients.
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At least five people have been killed and 55 injured after a series of explosions at a chemical plant in southern China, the Xinhua state news agency reported.
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A suicide bomber has struck at an Iraqi security checkpoint in the northern Diyala province, killing at least 28 people and wounding 42 others, police say.
Mountains of clothes donated to victims of China's devastating earthquake are being auctioned off, recycled into mops or left in warehouses because no-one wants them, state press reported Wednesday.
Riot police took up positions early Wednesday outside Thailand's main government compound, as authorities tried to negotiate an end to protests aimed at forcing Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign.
Protesters who stormed Thailand's Government House, a TV station and key ministries went too far in their bid to oust the administration, newspapers said on Wednesday, suggesting the movement has lost public support.
The casualties resulting from suicide bombing at Jalawlaa district on Tuesday morning reached to 25 people dead and 45 wounded, according to a recent report.
A suicide bomber had detonated the explosive vest amid a crowd of civilians at the civil status department in Jalawlaa district of eastern Diyala province.
The increasing numbers of suicide bombers throughout in Iraq shows the brutal and vicious policy of the occupation aiming to divide the society spreading terror and chaos.
65 citizens living in Babil Governorate were arrested during the so-called military operations in the region according to the official spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in the current Iraqi Government.
HEYET Net – Occupied Iraq is witnessing another arrest campaigns targeting ordinary people through so-called military operations. 65 citizens have been arrested within the so-called “Leap of Knights” carried out by the troops in the province.
So-called security operation was extensively launched with participation of the current army, police and occupation forces in early morning on Wednesday. “Leap of Knights” plan is being carried out by two days in the north of Hilla where the imposition of curfew still valid.
Meanwhile analysists and many neutral observers criticize these operations as targeting ordinary citizens or the areas against the occupation and collaborators. Many times the detainees held in the government or occupation prisons have no right to defend themselves even majority of the detainess have not seen any judge so far.
