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• India: Bus accident claims 23 lives
  2008-10-14 03:08:16 - (SomaliNet) At least 23 people were killed when a bus collided head-on with a truck in north-east India\'s Assam state on Tuesday, police said. Another 40 people were injured in the crash. Th
  
• US: Two people die in Los Angeles wildfires
  2008-10-14 03:06:54 - (SomaliNet) Deadly wind-driven brush fires roared out of the foothills and canyons on the northern fringe of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying dozens of homes and threatening hundreds more dwellings.
  
• Greece rocked by an earthquake measuring 5.1
  2008-10-14 03:05:20 - (SomaliNet) Greece has been rocked by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale. The epicentre lay in the Aegean Sea near the island of Evia, northeast of the capital Athens. The quake could be
  
• Aid organisations criticize IMF and World Bank
  2008-10-14 03:02:33 - (SomaliNet) Aid organisations have expressed serious dissatisfaction with the meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The meetings were overshadowed by the worldwide fina
  
• Saudi Arabia: Amnesty condemns rise in Saudi Arabian executions
  2008-10-14 02:58:26 - (SomaliNet) Amnesty International says there has been an alarming rise in the number of executions carried out in Saudi Arabia. Last year 158 people were executed, four times as many as in 2006.
  
• Iraqi: Law maker killed in bomb attack
  2008-10-10 07:09:27 - (SomaliNet) A Member of Parliamnet (MP) has been killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in a bomb attack. At least one passer-by was also killed. The MP, Saleh al-Ugaili was a member of the Shiite
  
• Pakistan: Roadside bomb kills 11 in Pakistan
  2008-10-10 07:07:55 - (SomaliNet) A roadside bomb in the Upper Dir district of Pakistan\'s North-West Frontier Province killed at least 11 people. The bomb exploded as a prison bus and a school bus were passing. Three
  
• US to revise North Korea\'s terrorism blacklist status
  2008-10-10 07:06:14 - (SomaliNet) Washington is about to remove North Korea from its list of countries that support terrorism, reports in the US media suggest said. Some expect an official statement on the issue later toda
  
• Belgium: 500 kilos of cocaine found in tuna shipment
  2008-10-10 07:04:01 - (SomaliNet) Some 500 kilograms of cocaine have been found in a container which was on its way to Rotterdam. The shipment was discovered in the port of Antwerp following a tip. The container came
  
• UK: British Gov’t to loan 250 billion euros to banks
  2008-10-08 06:41:04 - (SomaliNet) As part of a plan to keep the British banking system afloat, the British government is to make billions of euros available. The Bank of England will set aside 250 billion euros for short-t
  

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