Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Israel is set to resume piping fuel to Gaza power plant Wednesday after a week of halting, director of the Palestinian petrol agency said.
"Today, two million liters of industrial diesel will be allowed into Gaza and the station wil ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Governors of California, Arizona and New Mexico on Tuesday called for the extension of Operation Jump Start, a program aiming at reducing illegal border crossings and limiting the influx of narcotics and human trafficking.
In a lett ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Five people were killed when a vehicle plunged into a deep ravine in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday morning.
The official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted police as saying that the vehicle carrying employees of Telecommunicat ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Police in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province detained a Taliban commander who was in charge of facilitating and carrying out suicide bombings in the restive province, said a statement of the Interior Ministry released Wednesday.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
At least 52 Tamil Tiger rebels and 15 government soldiers were killed in a major confrontation in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula Wednesday morning, officials said.
Officials from the Media Center for National Security said th ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
A man who killed a woman and her 11-month-old baby daughter in 1999 when he was 18 was sentenced to death by a Japanese court on Tuesday.
The case, in which the youth strangled and raped the woman and killed her daughter, prompted a ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Democrats in Pennsylvania made their choice yesterday in the presidential nominating race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, with Clinton aiming for a big win to keep her flickering White House hopes alive.
The New York senator wa ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, on a truce with Israel, Egypt's state newspaper al-Ahram said yesterday.
"Egypt has reached a preliminary agreement with H ...
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