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Russian punk band convicted
08-17 19:33
A Russian judge found three women from the punk band Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for staging an anti-Kremlin protest on the ...

Bodies in Thai disco fire burnt beyond recognition
08-17 18:57
Thai authorities are yet to identify the four people who died in a disco fire on the island of Phuket. Foreigners were among the injured in the blaze at the ...

Bangladesh saves 60 fishermen from pirates
08-17 18:44
Bangladesh authorities said today they had rescued at least 60 fishermen abducted last week by pirates in the Bay of Bengal, as naval and air forces crack down o...

India growth set to slow further
08-17 17:55
India's economy will grow 6.7 percent in the current fiscal year, an advisory panel to the prime minister forecast, saying that an ongoing slowdown was of “great...

(Diaoyu update) Japanese nationalists ready for island trip
08-17 17:48
Japanese nationalists said today they are preparign to sail to the disputed Diaoyu Islands immediately after activists from Hong Kong headed for home from Nah...

Iran rails against Israel
08-17 17:10
Israel is a “cancerous tumor'' that will soon be finished off, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told demonstrators holding an annual protest against T...

Japanese man, 106, travels the world on public transport
08-17 16:48
A 106-year-old Japanese man has become the oldest person to have travelled around the world using public transport, a report said Friday. Saburo Shochi has...

More flee in fear despite Indian PM’s assurances
08-17 15:34
India's prime minister assured migrants from the northeast of the country that they were safe as thousands continued to flee from Mumbai, Bangalore and other cit...

Severed head, foot found in Canada
08-17 14:55
Canadian police found a severed woman's head in eastern Ontario province near Toronto, after earlier retrieving a foot from the same river. Officials at the ...

Australia slammed for bias in banishing asylum-seekers
08-17 14:24
Human rights campaigners have condemned Australia’s decision to dump asylum-seekers including children arriving by boat in Pacific islands. The United Sta...

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