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.
HEYET Net- AFP
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.
HEYET Net
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.
HEYET- Net- Agencies
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.
HEYET Net- PIC
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.
In the press statement the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) condemned American occupation forces for thieving the enriched Iraqi uranium.
HEYET Net – AMSI said in the press statement that the theft of enriched Iraqi uranium by US occupation forces was sold to a Canadian company in exchange for tens of millions of dollars. AMSI affirmed that the right will return to his owner sooner or later and the occupation will not change the ownership.
Press Statement
“The Pentagon has stated that the transfer of 550 metric tons natural uranium in Ali al Jawda Centre from the remnants of the former nuclear programme from Iraq to Canada. The news leaked from American sources told that this quantity sold through Iraqi officials to the Canadian company of “Cameco Corporation” –which could be reached at www.cameco.com – in exchange for tens of millions of dollars. The source said that the mentioned Canadian company will be dealt with the material for use in reactors producing energy.”
AMSI Press Statement warned the parties involved in this robbery as following: “the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) condemns this robbery of American and Iraqi sides; affirming that this amount of national wealth is enormous and will be the responsibility of the US occupation to compensate Iraqis with real value.
For the aforesaid Canadian Company or any party related to this process, they should understand that they are participating in the robbery in a broad daylight. For the world: We invite the world to condemn this robbery of material which was able to rule Iraq for investment in energy programs for peaceful purposes and others.”
