KABUL, March 27 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai left here for Tehran on Saturday for a visit at the invitation of his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahamadinejad, according to a statement released by his office.
\”During his one-day visit, the Afghan President would attend Nawruz or New Year celebration in addition to meeting Iranian spiritual leader [...]
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JAKARTA, March 26 (Xinhua) — A shallow moderate earthquake measuring 5.1 Richter scale rocked eastern parts of Indonesia on Friday, the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency reported here.
The quake struck at 00:53 a.m. Jakarta time Friday (1753 GMT Thursday) with epicenter at 58 km southwest Ternate of North Maluku and with the depth at 10 km, [...]
PYONGYANG, March 25 (Xinhua) — The History Society of the Democratic People\’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) issued an article on Thursday to commemorate An Jung Gun, a patriotic martyr who died 100 years ago, the official news agency KCNA reported.
In 1910, An Jung Gun was hung to death because of his assassination on Japanese Prime [...]
ISLAMABAD, March 25 (Xinhua) — Pakistani military airstrikes killed 64 suspected militants in its northwest tribal area near the Afghan border on Thursday, including dozens at a seminary where Taliban commanders were believed to be meeting, officials said.
The jet fire rained in two spells during the day in the Mamuzai area of Orakzai, a tribal [...]
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BANGKOK, March 27 (Xinhua) — A bomb exploded outside a building in Thailand\’s Customs Department compound in Bangkok Saturday morning.
The explosion happened at about 6 a.m., local newspaper The Nation \’s website reported. The blast damaged glass windows and a van parked nearby.
Officials were checking the type of the bomb.
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MUMBAI, March 27 (Xinhua) — India is expected to test-fire three types of short-range missiles on the weekend, local media reported on Friday evening.
The test of Prithvi-2, a short-range ballistic missile with the range of nearly 290 kilometers, is likely to be conducted on Saturday from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Balasore district [...]
Osama bin Laden threatened to execute any Americans taken prisoner by al-Qaida if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind [...]
PYONGYANG, March 29 (Xinhua) — The Democratic People\’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will build a light water reactor with its own nuclear fuel in response to \”a black propaganda campaign\” from its enemies, the official news agency KCNA said Monday.
\”The DPRK will witness the appearance of a light water reactor power plant relying on its [...]
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ISLAMABAD, March 23 (Xinhua) — As Pakistani delegation is waiting for the start of strategic dialogue with the United States in Washington, Pakistani analysts are much hopeful for a big breakthrough.
Pakistan will attend the dialogue on March 24 with ten point agenda including terrorism, security, economic cooperation, education, health, agriculture, electricity deficit and [...]
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