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Nephew fingers Israel for Arafat poisoning
07-12 21:15
Israel poisoned the late Yasser Arafat with the lethal radioactive substance polonium, a nephew of the veteran Palestinian leader alleged today. But Israel ...

BBC World Service faces bad news with office switch
07-12 20:53
BBC World Service, the British Foreign Office organ that promotes the UK’s interests abroad, blowing Britain’s trumpet on shortwave radio, but which al...

Spaniard in Bangkok posts suicide on Facebook
07-12 20:26
A Spanish man found dead in his apartment in downtown Bangkok on the eve of his 37th birthday had blogged his suicide live on his Facebook page, Thai police sa...

Manila slams duplicitous China in islands dispute
07-12 20:15
Philippines foreign minister denounced China’s “duplicity’’ and “intimidation’’ in the South China Sea, souring the mood at a regional summit designed t...

Nepali gets 170 years jail for trafficking girls to India
07-12 19:11
A Nepalese court has jailed a man for a record 170 years for trafficking teenage girls to work as prostitutes in India, a public prosecutor said. Bajir Singh ...

Avalanche sweeps Alps, killed 9
07-12 19:00
An avalanche swept over a group of foreign climbers in the French Alps on Thursday, killing at least nine people in the deadliest such disaster in the region in...

Currywurst stays in the family
07-12 18:58
Call it the battle of the bangers. A family feud over sausage succession rights is adding some spice to Berlin's summer. This week, after months of bitter legal...

Hackers claim to steal 450,000 Yahoo accounts
07-12 18:42
A previously unknown hacker group has posted online the details of 450,000 user accounts and passwords it claims to have taken from a Yahoo server, Reuters repor...

Rolling Stones celebrate 50th, hint about tour
07-12 18:37
Half a century after their first live gig on London's Oxford Street, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the Rolling Stones will mark the band's 5...

Trial interrupted as Mladic falls ill
07-12 17:38
Former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was taken to hospital after being taken ill in court, a spokeswoman for the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal said. “...

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