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80 protestors who walked 500 miles detained
10:54am Tuesday 6th May 2008
Police have detained 80 people who walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak in central India to protest outside the prime minister's residence in New Dehli, an organiser said.

Six civilians killed in airstrike
9:47am Thursday 3rd April 2008
The US military says an air strike has destroyed a house in the southern city of Basra, killing a militant, but it does not have reports of civilian deaths.

Anti-racism conference boycott
9:45am Thursday 3rd April 2008
Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, law professor Alan Dershowitz and former CIA director James Woolsey are urging the US to boycott next year's United Nations anti-racism conference which they have dubbed anti-Semitic.

People's Party nominates PM
7:12pm Saturday 22nd March 2008
A former parliament speaker and aide to murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was nominated today as the parliamentary majority's choice to be Pakistan's next prime minister.

History repeating itself?
1:16pm Friday 21st March 2008
US President George Bush was today compared to ill-starred Roman general Crassus - whose invasion of Iraq 2,000 years ago led to disaster for the West.

Gurkhas hand back medals in protest
12:53pm Wednesday 19th March 2008
Crowds of Nepalese Gurkhas have descended on the British Parliament to watch 50 veterans hand back their medals in protest at their "immoral discrimination".

War costs every man, woman and child in UK £100
10:50am Wednesday 19th March 2008
The bill to the British taxpayer for military operations in Iraq is more than £6 billion - and rising.

British PM backs Iraq inquiry - but not yet
1:20pm Monday 17th March 2008
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed an inquiry will be held to learn "all possible lessons" from the Iraq war - but resisted calls for it to be held immediately.

Iraq: Five years on
9:30am Monday 17th March 2008
In the lead-up to the fifth "anniversary" the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Amnesty International has issued a new briefing showing the "disastrous" human rights situation in the country.

Police detain protestors
12:23pm Thursday 13th March 2008
Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles marching in northern India to Tibet in protest at China's staging of the Olympic Games, organisers and officials said.

Corruption charges are dropped
10:31am Wednesday 12th March 2008
Lawyers in Pakistan said today that a court has quashed another corruption charge against Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Hijab-wearer 'ejected from shopping centre'
9:35am Tuesday 11th March 2008
A Muslim woman was told to leave an shopping centre in America because she was wearing an Hijab it has been claimed.
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2008 cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq tops £3bn
3:17pm Monday 10th March 2008
The cost of military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq this year has almost doubled to more than £3 billion, British MPs have warned.

Man arrested over Goa murder
8:11pm Sunday 9th March 2008
Police in India arrested a 28-year-old local man in connection with the rape and murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling.

Guantanamo Bay duo celebrate
7:22pm Thursday 6th March 2008
Two former Guantanamo Bay detainees are celebrating after Spanish authorities dropped a bid to extradite them to face terrorism charges.

News reader gets OBENews reader gets OBE
2:53pm Wed 5 Mar 08
News reader George Alagiah has been awarded an OBE for services to journalism.

New UN sanctions on Iran
9:26am Tuesday 4th March 2008
The United Nations' Security Council approved a third round of sanctions against Iran over its refu-sal to suspend its uranium enrichment programme with almost unanimous support yesterday.

Released after 35 years
12:33am Tuesday 4th March 2008
An Indian who spent 35 years in Pakistani prisons accused of spying has been released.

Israel kills some more children
9:16am Monday 3rd March 2008
Tamer was nine, and no child soldier. He did not live in the area from where homemade rockets are launched into Israeli territory.

Suicide bomber kills 40 in Pakistan
3:14pm Monday 3rd March 2008
A suicide bomber attacked an anti-al Qaida peace meeting attended by thousands of tribe members in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 40 people in the third suicide blast in the region in as many days.

Pakistani Elections 2008: What the does the future hold?
10:33am Friday 29th February 2008
Amidst the chaos, Political unstability, violence, foreign interference and heavy handed tactics of the sitting 'President', Pakistani elections took place.
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YouTube back in Pakistan
3:48pm Tuesday 26th February 2008
Pakistan today lifted restrictions on YouTube that knocked out access to the video-sharing web site in many countries for up to two hours over the weekend.

Report on Iraqi 'execution' claims
11:07am Friday 22nd February 2008
Lawyers for five Iraqis are to publish evidence which they claim shows prisoners were executed by British troops.

The people have spoken
10:42am Wednesday 20th February 2008
This is not a survey or the work of human right organisation, the people of Pakistan have given verdict and have shown serious dissent to the policies of General Musharraf.

Vote rigging fears in Pakistan
10:27am Monday 18th February 2008
Voting has begun in the postponed Pakistan elections after opposition politicians voiced concerns about vote rigging.

Appeal for older people hit by cyclone
12:01am Friday 15th February 2008
Help the Aged is launching a campaign to raise £500,000 to help older people in Bangladesh recover from the "forgotten tsunami".

Eight new tiger reserves in India
9:25am Wednesday 13th February 2008
Conservationists welcomed an Indian government plan to create eight new reserves to protect the country's dwindling tiger population, and called today for more action to prevent illegal trading in tiger parts.

Newspapers reprint cartoons
9:00am Wednesday 13th February 2008
Denmark’s leading newspapers today reprinted a cartoon which depicts the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban.
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PPP rejects report on Bhutto death
8:47pm Friday 8th February 2008
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has rejected a report by British detectives into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, saying it has "achieved nothing".

Bhutto died of head injury - report
9:07am Friday 8th February 2008
Benazir Bhutto died of a "severe head injury" and not a gunshot wound in an attack by a lone terrorist, Scotland Yard has said.

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