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| 13 killed in copter crash in Colombia |
Officials 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.
Two officials who spoke on condition they not be further identified put the death toll at 13. Both say they were not authorised to disclose the number.
They say that the aircraft caught fire as it fell to the ground and that police and air force personnel were aboa .... |
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| Myanmar president meets UN chief |
Myanmar president U Thein Sein held talks with UN chief Ban Ki-moon in Myanmar's capital Naypyidaw Monday, a day after his arrival in Yangon.
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Obama calls French President-elect HollandeU.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 gov .... |
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China to issue passports with electronic chipsChina will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder''s personal informations.
The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chip containing informations like the cardholder''s name, his date of birth, photograph and finger prints will be installed .... |
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U.S. drone strike kills 8 in PakistanAn 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. resolve to continue with the attacks despite renewed Pakistani opposition, officials said.
The strike in North Waziristan was the second American drone operation in Pakis .... |
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Obama’s ex recalls his ‘sexual warmth’US President Barack Obama had a fling with an Australian woman in New York in the 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 Stor .... |
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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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'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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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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