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Won't be able to provide fool-proof security to IPL: Home Minister

The government today said it will not be able to provide fool-proof security to Indian Premier League matches due to the coming Lok Sabha polls."Due to general elections, it will be difficult to provide adequate security to IPL matches," Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told…

Co-pilot who hijacked Ethiopian plane threatened to crash it, passenger says

A passenger onboard an Ethiopian Airlines jet that was hijacked by a co-pilot – who guided the plane to Geneva instead of Rome – said the co-pilot threatened to crash the plane if the pilot kept trying to get back into the cockpit.The Italian…

Nepal plane crash kills all 18 people on board

Rescuers in Nepal on Monday found the wreckage of a passenger plane that slammed into a snow-covered mountain and burst into flames, killing all 18 people on board, including a small child, authorities said.Moving slowly on foot through thick snow, rescuers traveled for 8…

1 dead, 6 Japanese divers missing off Indonesia's resort island of Bali

Indonesian rescuers recovered the body believed to be of a Japanese diver and searched for six others missing Saturday off the resort island of Bali, police said.The group, including two instructors, left Friday morning on a boat they hired for a dive around mangroves…

77 dead, 1 survivor in Algeria plane crash, official says

Seventy-seven people were killed and one person survived after an Algerian military transport plane slammed into a mountain Tuesday in the country's rugged eastern region.The U.S.-built C-130 Hercules crashed about noon near the town of Ain Kercha, 30 miles southeast of Constantine, the main…

Barrel bombs: From the skies above Syria, the government puts a crude weapon to deadly use

They are known as barrel bombs — makeshift, shrapnel-packed explosive devices that Syrian forces have been dropping on rebel-held neighborhoods from helicopters. Residents have another name for them: "barrels of death."It's a crude term for a crude weapon.For nearly two months, President Bashar…

Al Qaeda fighters in Syria kill rival rebel leader

Al Qaeda fighters killed the leader of a rival Islamic brigade in a twin car bombing near Syria's northern city of Aleppo, an attack likely to further exacerbate rebel infighting even as government forces continued their intense shelling of opposition-held areas of the city on…

Pentagon fumes as Afghanistan frees Taliban fighters with 'blood on their hands'

Afghani officials freed 37 insurgents and Taliban fighters with “blood on their hands” in what the Pentagon called a “major step backward” for the rule of law in the war torn nation.The hardened fighters were among 88 prisoners who were being held by the…

32 believed dead in Quebec retirement home fire

Crews pulled just two more bodies from the ice-covered rubble of a Quebec retirement home on the third day of the excruciating search, bringing to 10 the number of confirmed dead from a massive fire. The effort to recover another 22 people presumed killed will…

Ukrainian president faces ultimatum to call new elections or face street rage

Thick black smoke from burning tires is engulfing the downtown Ukrainian capital as an ultimatum issued by the opposition to the president to call early election or face street rage was set to expire with no sign of a compromise.The three main opposition leaders…

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