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| Obama calls French President-elect Hollande |
U.S. President Barack Obama called the French President-elect Francois Hollande to congratulate him on his electoral victory and indicated him that he looks forward to working with him on a range of issues, the White House said.
“President Obama indicated that he looks forward to working closely with Hollande and his government on a range of shared economic and security challenges,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement.
“Obama noted that he will welcome President-elect Hollande to Camp David for the G-8 Summit and to .... |
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| 'Roadside bomb kills five Afghan police' |
Five border policemen were killed when a roadside bomb ripped through their patrol vehicle in eastern Afghanistan, an official said today.
The bomb struck their pick-up truck in the Dur Baba district of Nangarhar province, near the Pakistan border, late last night, the provincial governor''s spokesman told AFP.
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| U.S. drone strike kills 8 in Pakistan |
An American drone fired a volley of missiles into a house close to the Afghan border on Saturday, killing eight suspected militants and indicating U.S .... |
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Osama wanted Ilyas Kashmiri to kill ObamaOsama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who was then top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Ilyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them.
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Six killed in China landslideSix construction workers were killed after a landslide buried a work shed in China''s Southeast Fujian province.
The incident occurred last week when a section of mountain, near Longdeyang village in Daqiao township, collapsed killing six construction workers, Xinhua reported today.
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15 killed in Pak bus accidentAt least 15 people, including two policemen, were killed and over 20 injured on Thursday when a speeding bus fell into a deep ravine near Kohistan in northern Pakistan, officials said.
The bus was travelling from Rawalpidi to Gilgit when it fell into the ravine while negotiating a turn in a mountainous area, officials sa .... |
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Obama's affair becomes a rave in AustraliaUS President Barack Obama had a fling with an Australian woman in New York during 1980s and a new biography threatens to bare this torrid affair.
Secret diaries of Genevieve Cook, daughter of an Australian diplomat, who was one of young Obama''s girlfriends are being carried in the forthcoming book ''Barack Obama: The St .... |
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We will emerge stronger: MurdochRupert Murdoch has reportedly told staffers at his U.K. newspapers that his business can emerge “better and stronger” following the phone-hacking scandal, even as a panel of British MPs on Monday branded the news baron “unfit” to run his global media empire.
In his email shot to his employees in the UK, the 81-year-old A .... |
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France gets new leader, Europe new directionFrance handed the presidency on Sunday to leftist Francois Hollande, a champion of government stimulus programmes who says the state should protect the downtrodden a victory that could deal a death blow to the drive for austerity that has been the hallmark of Europe in recent years.
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Eight killed in Kabul attack after Obama visitEight people were killed and 17 injured in suicide bombings and a gunbattle in the Afghan capital Wednesday, hours after US President Barack Obama's Kabul visit that came exactly a year after Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was gunned down in Pakistan.
The brazen attacks were mounted after Obama left Kabul following a pre .... |
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Nepal PM to form new coalition governmentIn a last-ditch effort to finish years of work on Nepal’s new constitution, Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai will dissolve his Cabinet and form a new coalition government that includes members of the main opposition parties, an aide said Thursday.
Bhattarai’s press adviser Ram Rijan Yadav said the Prime Minister will hol .... |
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13 killed in copter crash in ColombiaOfficials in Colombia say a Colombian air force helicopter has crashed near the Caribbean coast and all 13 people aboard have been killed.
Atlantico state civil defence director Jorge Fernandez says the aircraft crashed in a field in a rural area of the town of Sabanagrande.
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