Flash floods kill scores in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Flash floods and storm left dozens of people dead and thousands stranded in the most severe deluge in decades in northwest Pakistan, sources said.
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Woman gets 3 years’ jail term for terrorism
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court sentenced a woman to three years in prison on Thursday for harboring terrorists, including one of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted men.
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Rains hamper salvage of crashed plane
ISLAMABAD: Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.
West Bengal students demand teachers wear burqas
CALCUTTA: Students at an Islamic university in eastern India have refused to allow a female lecturer to teach unless she wears an all-encompassing Muslim veil, the teacher said on Thursday.
Qureshi expresses surprise at Cameron’s remarks
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi expressed surprise over the British premier’s statement in the Indian town of Bangalore on Wednesday.
French Mom admits smothering newborns
VILLERS-AU-TERTRE, France: A French woman who admitted suffocating eight of her newborns and concealing their corpses in the garden and garage of her home has been charged with manslaughter, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Russian security agency granted KGB-like powers
MOSCOW: Russians may now face jail time for crimes they have not yet committed under a new security law signed Thursday by President Dmitry Medvedev.
Sweltering heat breaks new record in Moscow
MOSCOW: The summer heat set a new all-time temperature record in Moscow on Thursday, a leading forecaster said, adding that the unprecedented long heatwave could be interrupted already on Friday.
France to expel illegal Roma immigrants
SAINT OUEN, France: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma.
Arizona preparing appeal of immigration ruling
PHOENIX: Arizona is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge’s ruling that put most of the state’s immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the US Supreme Court.
South Americans try to end Venezuela-Colombia rift
QUITO: South American foreign ministers were meeting in Ecuador on Thursday to discuss broken ties between Venezuela and Colombia, with sparks likely over the two Andean nations’ clashing plans to fix a crisis over leftist rebels.
Floods wash chemical barrels into China river
BEIJING: The water supply was safe in a northeastern China city after more than 3,000 containers of toxic chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods in a decade in the country, an official said on Thursday.