Monday, April 25, 2011

Illegal Chinese 'magic pen' seized in Dubai

Illegal Chinese 'magic pen' seized in Dubai

Illegal Chinese 'magic pen' seized in Dubai

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Police in Dubai have confiscated illegal Chinese 'magic pen' used to forge cheques and documents with its vanishing ink, a news report has said. The raids were conducted after Dubai police recently sent an urgent circular to all UAE-based banks to be aware of the usage of a Chinese pen which has an ink that vanished few hours after using it.


Dossier shows push for more post-9/11 terror attacks

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He peers out from the photo in the classified file through heavy-framed spectacles, an owlish face with a graying beard and a half-smile. Saifullah Paracha, a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, appears to be the oldest of the 172 prisoners still held at the Guantánamo Bay prison. His dossier is among the most chilling.


Chinese state media publish photos of fighter jet

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The J-15 Flying Shark is China's newest attack jet, a sinuous fighter with the folding wings, shortened tail cone and bulked-up landing gear it needs to serve on China's first aircraft carrier, which is expected to start sea trials soon. It is indisputable evidence of China's growing mastery of military technology.


15 killed as a bus set on fire in Pakistan

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At least 15 people, including eight women and five children, were burnt to death and several others suffered serious injuries in the wee hours of Tuesday when some armed men set a Quetta-bound bus on fire near Sibi city of Pakistan.


Chernobyl widows mourn as bell tolls 25 times

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A bell in Ukraine's capital has tolled 25 times for the number of years that have passed since the Chernobyl disaster, as the world began marking the anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in history.


Credible allegations of war crimes in Lanka: UN report

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Shelling by the Sri Lankan government, in the final stages of the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) in 2009, claimed the most number of civilian lives, according to a UN report.


Syria: At least 11 dead in army crackdown

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An eyewitness says at least 11 people have been killed in the southern Syrian city of Daraa after the army stormed in before dawn and fired indiscriminately on civilians.


With 12,000 still missing, Japan keeps searching

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The men were among 25,000 troops given the morbid duty of searching the rubble, the seas and the swamps of northeastern Japan for the bodies of the nearly 12,000 people still missing in last month's earthquake and tsunami.


Two Indian students drown in Australia

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Two Indian students drowned on Sunday after being washed off rocks in South Australia. The men were part of a tour group visiting Vivonne Bay on Kangaroo Island. It's understood the 25 and 29 year old - both international students based in Melbourne - were not strong swimmers. Friends and family watched helplessly as they were swept into the ocean.


Al Qaeda leaders were in Karachi on 9/11: WikiLeaks

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Some senior Al Qaeda leaders were in Pakistan's Karachi city on September 11, 2001 and most returned to Afghanistan within a day, Washington Post reported on Monday citing documents accessed by WikiLeaks. The media report said that core Al Qaeda leaders were in Karachi. While one of them was recovering at a hospital from a tonsillectomy and another was buying lab equipment for a biological weapons program, key Al Qaeda members were watching the scenes from New York and Washington on television.


US authorities describe Pakistan's ISI as terror group

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US authorities have, in secret files to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, described Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) as a terrorist organisation, a media report said on Monday. Recommendations to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay rank the ISI directorate alongside Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah groups in Lebanon as threats, the Guardian reported.


The Royal Wedding: Waiting for the dress

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When Kate Middleton strides down the aisle at Westminster Abbey on Friday, millions of Americans watching at home will be transfixed by her gown. Few more so than Don O'Neill. Mr. O'Neill, the creative director of Theia, a bridal house in Manhattan, expects that Ms. Middleton's dress (or a much more affordable version of it) will be coveted by brides-to-be on this side of the Atlantic.


'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden is caught or killed: Al-Qaida

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A senior Al-Qaida commander has claimed that the terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which will be detonated if bin Laden is ever caught or assassinated, according to new top secret files made public by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.


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