Reuters – A young Nepali climber is seeking to popularise a toilet fashioned from a plastic bucket with a lid to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mount Everest.
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AP – An official says Pakistan has temporarily suspended oil tankers and trucks with sealed containers from using a key passage into Afghanistan a move that could affect a critical supply route to U.S. and NATO troops.
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AFP – Sri Lanka stepped up air attacks against suspected rebel targets in the island’s north Sunday, a day after ground troops re-captured a highly strategic town, the defence ministry said.
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AP – Armed gunmen have hijacked a cargo ship carrying 23 crew off the coast of Somalia, the latest attack near the lawless African country, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
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AP – A raid by U.S. coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan killed five al-Qaida associated fighters and detained eight others, including a militant leader, the U.S. military said in a statement Sunday. Two U.S. troops were wounded in a suicide attack in the west.
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AFP – Parochial identity politics are gripping India’s most cosmopolitan city, Mumbai, stoking fears that intimidation and deadly violence used for local ends are threatening a fragile sense of national unity.
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AFP – Sunday newspapers were largely unconvinced by the G20 summit in Washington, concluding that Prime Minister Gordon Brown does not have all the answers for fixing the financial downturn.
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AP – Armed gunmen hijacked a cargo ship carrying 23 crew members, including five South Koreans, off the coast of Somalia, a South Korean official said Sunday.
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AP – The party representing New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people will get its first Cabinet posts under a multiparty deal Prime Minister-elect John Key signed Sunday to form a center-right minority government.
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AP – A raid by coalition troops in eastern Afghanistan killed five al-Qaida associated militants and eight others were detained, including a militant leader, the U.S. military said in a statement Sunday.
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