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Death stalked Briton in Goa?
MIL/Agencies Jan 4, 2007 Author:
New Delhi, January 04, 2006 - The murder of a British national in a village in Raigad district has taken a new twist after the Briton's mother revealed that he had called her four days before his death to say that he feared for his life.
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Saddam execution issue creates controversy in UN
MIL/Agencies/PTI Jan 3, 2007 Author: Dharam Shourie
United Nataions, January 3, 2007 - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has landed himself into a controversy right on his first full day in office over, what observers say, were his attempts to dilute the world body's strong stand against death penalty.
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Central government panel to probe Nithari killings
MIL/Agencies Jan 3, 2007 Author:
Lucknow, January 3, 2007 - The committee would be chaired by Manjula Krishnan, joint secretary in the women and child development ministry, and include J.S. Kochher, a director in the same ministry, V.N. Gaur, joint secretary (police) in the home ministry, and Balvinder Kumar, secretary of department of women and child development, Uttar Pradesh.
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North Korean Foreign Minister Paek dies
MIL/Agencies Jan 3, 2007 Author:
Seoul, January 3, 2007 - North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam-sun, the reclusive country's top diplomat for much of the past decade of confrontation over its nuclear ambitions, has died, Pyongyang's official media reported on Wednesday, as per Reuters.
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Romania and Bulgaria join EU bringing to 27 members
MIL/Agencies/AP Jan 2, 2007 Author:
Sofia, 02 January 2007 - Bulgaria and Romania — two ex-communist nations from one of the poorest corners of Europe — joined the European Union, bringing the bloc's membership to 27 nations.
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 | Bush being questioned after execution of Saddam Hussein
MIL/NYT Jan 1, 2007 Author:
Baghdad, January 01, 2007 - With his plain pine coffin strapped into an American military helicopter for a predawn journey across the desert, Saddam Hussein, the executed dictator who built a legend with his defiance of America, completed a turbulent passage into history on Sunday.
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US deaths in Iraq war hit 3,000
MIL/Agencies Jan 1, 2007 Author: Raja Mishra
January 01, 2007 - An American soldier killed on the streets of Baghdad on Saturday became the 3,000th US service member to die in Iraq, nearly four years after the invasion of the country.
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 | Saddam executed this morning, mixed protests world over
MIL/Agencies Dec 30, 2006 Author:
Baghdad, 30 December 2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged early today for his alleged crimes against humanity. The toppled Iraqi leader was executed just before 6 A.M. at the Khadamiyah intelligence centre in Baghdad. It was the same centre where many of his opponents had been executed in previous years.
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It is confirmed that Canada melt down
MIL/Agencies Dec 30, 2006 Author: Michael Kanellos
December 30, 2006 - Using high tech monitoring devices, including satellite images, scientists have reconstructed a major climate event that occurred on August 13, 2005. That afternoon the forty-one square mile Ayles Ice Shelf broke free of Canada's Ellesmere Island. It now floats free, an ice island off northeastern Canada.
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Islamic leaders flee after Govt. forces take back the Somali capital
MIL/Agencies Dec 29, 2006 Author:
December 29, 2006 - In the end, Mogadishu’s feared Islamic militias simply melted away. Young fighters, some forced to swap schoolbooks for AK47s in recent months, had no stomach for a fight with an Ethiopian war machine that had helped Somali government troops to the outskirts of the capital. They discarded their fatigues, took off their Islamic caps and transferred their allegiance back to their clans.
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Hussein may be hanged any time any day
MIL/Agencies Dec 29, 2006 Author:
Baghdad, December 29, 2006 - Saddam Hussein met with two of his half brothers and his lawyers Thursday at a U.S. detention facility as a senior U.S. official said his execution could come within "a couple more days."
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Saddam handed over for execution
MIL/Agencies Dec 29, 2006 Author:
December 29, 2006 - The fate of Saddam Hussein hangs in the balance today, with some reports suggesting he has already been handed over for execution.
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Water supply restored in Mumbai
MIL/Agencies/PTI Dec 28, 2006 Author:
Mumbai, December 28, 2006 - Water flowed freely in Mumbai again on Thursday after a day when taps ran dry in the country's commercial capital, with the civic authorities restoring supply early this morning.
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Joint Forces Surround Somali Capital After Islamists Quit
MIL/Agencies Dec 28, 2006 Author:
December 28, 2006 - Joint Ethiopian and government forces were encircling the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, as the siege of the city was imminent after Islamist fighters fled from the capital.
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AIFB urges Mamata to end hunger strike
MIL/Agencies Dec 28, 2006 Author:
Lucknow, Dec 28: Appealing to Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to withdraw her hunger strike and come to the discussion table, All India Forward Block (AIFB) general secretary and MP Debabrata Biswas on Thursday said all possible efforts have been made to evolve the Singur deal as a pro-farmers project.
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 | Former U.S. president Gerald Ford dies at 93
MIL/Agencies Dec 27, 2006 Author:
California, December 27, 2006 - Former U.S. president Gerald Ford died at the age of 93 on Tuesday. He had been hospitalized several times the last year for various ailments, and had suffered two mild strokes since 2000. His wife, Betty Ford, made the announcement from California late Tuesday.
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 | Saddam to be hanged within 30 days
MIL/Agencies Dec 27, 2006 Author:
December 27, 2006 - Saddam Hussein is to be executed within the next 30 days after his appeal against a death sentence for crimes against humanity was rejected yesterday by the highest appeals court in Iraq.
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Govt to remove inequities faced by Muslims: PM
MIL/Agencies Dec 27, 2006 Author:
December 27, 2006 - Former Prime Ministers V P Singh and I K Gujral shared the dais with the Prime Minister at the conference organised by Lok Janshakti Party, headed by Ram Vilas Paswan.
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Vajpayee is 82 today , PM calls on his residence to congrat his Birthday
NIL/Agencies/IANS Dec 25, 2006 Author:
New Delhi, December 25, 2006 - Several political leaders including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called on the residence of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday to greet him on his 82nd birthday.
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Ethiopian planes bombard airport in the capital
MIL/BBC Dec 25, 2006 Author:
December 25, 2006 - The war in Somalia has increased in intensity, with Ethiopian planes bombing the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. The city is the stronghold of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which are now confronting the Ethiopians in locations across 400km (250 miles) of Somalia.
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