Archive for April 8th, 2008
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
The local administration of Dhading District, situated some 50 km west of capital Kathmandu, clamped indefinite curfew in the district headquarters Beshisahar from 10:00 a.m. Tuesday following clashes between political parties.
Acco ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic had started to install 6,000 centrifuges at Natanz nuclear plant, state media reported.
The president made the remarks after inspecting various se ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Jose Antonio Vargas, a 27-year-old Filipino American, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on an astonishing shooting spree in the United States, media reports said on Tuesday.
Vargas, having worked as a journalist for t ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Iran yesterday ruled out halting or limiting sensitive nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives from major powers and instead suggested it may announce new developments in the program this week.
Iran marks its National Day ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
A military aircraft crashed to a field in Vietnam's Hanoi capital city on Tuesday morning, killing all five people on board, a local official told Xinhua.
The Made-in-Russia AN-26 with two propellers of Vietnam's Air-force and Air D ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Related countries and regions should step up efforts to protect the Olympic torch relay and the bearers, said delegates to the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) here on Tuesday.
The 16th ANOC General Assembly, which ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
At least 30 Israeli tanks rolled in southeast Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning, creating fears among residents that it might be a beginning of a larger ground operation.
Residents of eastern Khan Younis town in southern Gaza Strip s ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Wind and solar power are the most popular energy sources to take New Zealand into the next decade, showed a survey released on Tuesday.
The poll was carried out for the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development.
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