Sunday, January 23, 2011

US: Wal-Mart shooting leaves two dead

US: Wal-Mart shooting leaves two dead

US: Wal-Mart shooting leaves two dead

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A shootout in front of a Walmart in Washington left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded on Sunday afternoon, a sheriff's spokesman said. One of the dead was a man who shot at deputies, said Scott Wilson of the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office. The other victim was a young woman who died after she was taken to a Tacoma hospital, he said.


Will Kamal Nath get diplomatic immunity for riots case?

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The United States has made "no determination" on the question of diplomatic immunity for Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath against the backdrop of the summons issued against him by a US court on a lawsuit alleging his involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.


World's highest restaurant opens in Dubai

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The world's highest restaurant situated 442 metres up in the sky on the 122nd floor of the world's tallest building Burj Khalifa here has opened its doors to the public. 'At.mosphere', located on the 122nd floor of 828-metre high Burj Khalifa, was opened yesterday.


6.1 magnitude earthquake hits eastern Tajikistan

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A strong 6.1 earthquake hit a mountainous area of eastern Tajikistan early today, the US Geological Survey reported. The epicenter of the tremor, which occurred at 7:45 am local time (0245 GMT), was located 106 kilometers southwest of the city of Karakul, near the country's border with China, it said.


MTV’s naked calculation gone bad

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What if one day you went to work and there was a meeting to discuss whether the project you were working on crossed the line into child pornography? You'd probably think you had ended up in the wrong room. And you'd be right.


Tunisia: A mock funeral and protests against Government

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Protesters staged a mock funeral in the centre of Tunis on Sunday in honour of the man whose suicide triggered the popular uprising that overthrew Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, died after he set himself on fire in the central city of Sidi Bouzid last month to protest against official harassment under Ben Ali's regime.


In Pak, blasphemy law supporters on the streets

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Rallies took place in Peshawar and Faisalabad on Sunday in support of Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws that stipulate death for those insulting Islam. About ten-thousand supporters of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party gathered in the northwestern city of Peshawar for a sit-in outside the provincial assembly.


Protests in Belgium over political deadlock

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Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the Belgian capital on Sunday in support of national unity and to demand that the rival political groupings finally form a coalition after seven months without a government.


Thailand: 'Red Shirts' protest in Bangkok

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Twenty-thousand Red Shirt protesters descended on the streets of Thailand's capital on Sunday, taking over the Bangkok Democracy Monument as they held a peaceful but noisy rally.


Lights out for the incandescent bulb in California

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The brightest bulb in most homes for more than a century is fading toward darkness this year as California turns out the light on the century-old incandescent.


Inspired by Tunisia, revolt in Yemen

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Drawing inspiration from the revolt in Tunisia, Yemeni protesters took to the streets of Sana'a on Sunday to call for an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule.


Israeli inquiry: Flotilla interception was legal

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An Israeli inquiry commission defended the actions of the country's troops during last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound protest flotilla sailing from Turkey, finding in a report released Sunday that Israel had not violated international law.


WikiLeaks: 1 percent of cables published and what they've done

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Nearly two months after WikiLeaks outraged the U.S. government by launching the release of a massive compendium of diplomatic documents, the secret-spilling website has published 2,628 U.S. State Department cables - just over 1 percent of its trove of 251,287 documents.


Facebook blamed for increasing rate of divorce

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Popular social networking site Facebook is being blamed for a growing number of marriage splits in the UK as love rats are caught flirting online.


China's new stealth fighter may use US technology

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Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.


Flurry of car bombs kill 10 in Baghdad

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A flurry of morning bombs killed 10 people and wounded 34 around Baghdad Sunday, police said, in what one Iraqi official called an attempt to undermine security ahead of a much anticipated meeting of Arab heads of state in two months.


Bus slams into oil tanker in Pakistan, 32 killed

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A bus slammed into an oil tanker in southern Pakistan before dawn on Sunday, setting off a blazing inferno that gutted both vehicles and killed 32 people, police said.


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