Fort Hood Shootings »
A CNN Special Investigation drills down on the causes and the impact of the Fort Hood shootings, at 8 p.m. ET Saturday on CNN TV.
Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) — Thirteen flag-draped coffins left Fort Hood on Friday as authorities searched for a motive in the massacre that left more than 50 casualties at the largest [...]
Deadly Blast in Pakistan Casts Shadow Over Clinton’s Visit »
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By ISMAIL KHAN
Published: October 28, 2009
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The arrival of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pakistan was overshadowed Wednesday by a devastating car bomb that tore through a market in the northwest city of Peshawar, an attack aimed at civilians and marking a clear escalation in the Taliban campaign [...]
Pakistan Air Force Site Is Bombed »
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By JANE PERLEZ
Published: October 23, 2009
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bombing at Pakistan’s premier aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people on Friday morning, the ninth attack on major government installations this month.
Security personnel at a checkpoint after a suicide attack at an air force complex in Pakistan on Friday.
The bomber blew up [...]
Iranian commanders assassinated »
top commanders in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been killed in a suicide bombing in the volatile south-east of the country.
Iranian state television said 31 people died in the attack, in the Pishin region of Sistan-Baluchistan, and more than 25 were injured.
Shia and Sunni tribal leaders were also killed. A Sunni resistance group, Jundullah, said [...]
Double bombing kills 13 at Pakistan police station »
Taliban militants kept up an unrelenting wave of terror campaign in Pakistan with a suicide car bomber striking a police station in Peshawar killing 13 people and wounding 16 others.
Targeting the city for the second day in running the bomber rammed his explosive laden car into the police station creating an impact which also severely [...]
Flood misery in Andhra Pradesh »
Villagers wade through flood waters in Andhra Pradesh on October 6, 2009
Flood water has washed away entire villages
The worst floods in more than 100 years have left behind a trail of death and destruction in five districts of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. BBC Hindi’s Omer Farooq reports from Rajoli village in Mehbubnagar [...]
Floods: 200 dead, over 1 million homeless »
NDTV Correspondent, Monday October 5, 2009, Hyderabad, Bangalore
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About 200 people are dead and close to 1 million have been displaced due to the massive floods in southern states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
One of India’s most prosperous cities Vijayawada is today virtually cut off with highways connecting it to Hyderabad and Chennai under water.
River [...]
Indonesia quake ‘traps thousands’ »
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People fled to higher ground after the earthquake shook Western Sumatra province [AFP]
At least 75 people have been confirmed dead and thousands are feared trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake flattened hundreds of homes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said.
Indonesia’s vice-president said on Wednesday that the death toll was “certain” to rise as [...]
Water discovered on moon?: “A lot of it actually” »
Divya Gandhi
BANGALORE: Speculation is rife among space scientists that the quest for water on the moon may have reached a climactic end with the discovery of “a lot of water” by an instrument on board Chandrayaan-I.
A report by the online space news portal, Space Ref, says this discovery, made by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (developed [...]
Hatoyama ushers in new era in politics »
Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009
New kids on the block: Members of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s new Cabinet gather Wednesday night at the Prime Minister’s Official Residence. Hatoyama was sworn in earlier in the day as Japan’s 93rd prime minister. SATOKO KAWSAKI
‘Historic turning point’ ends 54 years of LDP rule
By MASAMI ITO and ALEX MARTIN
Staff writers
Japan saw [...]
