• Yet more pointers on law and order downslide
  • Management planning: being proactive
  • Predictably and unspectacularly big
  • Reasonable education allowance
  • Nati’l children recitation fest begins
  • Russian language day, birth anniv of Pushkin celebrated
  • Bomb blast kills 18 on Pakistan bus
  • NATO offers apology over Afghan deaths in air strike
  • High deficit budget to hit investment, growth
  • Budgetary tax measures to be burden on general people: CPD
  • Victoria clinch title in last over thriller
  • Germany focus on upsetting Ronaldo
  • Sluggish preparation for addressing water stagnation this year
  • Ctg citizens protest at offending Abu Sayeed
  • Proposed education budget disappoints experts
  • Experts term health budget anti-poor
  • Muhith defends offer to legalise untaxed money
  • Kitchen market starts heating up
  • BGB on alert on Myanmar border
  • Titan Tyton saves Poles in opener
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Bomb blast kills 18 on Pakistan bus

Pakistani security officials examine the wreckage of a destroyed bus after a bomb explosion on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday. — AFP photo
A bomb blast ripped through a Pakistani bus on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including six women and a child, on the outskirts of the north-western city of Peshawar, the police said. More than 40 other people were wounded in the attack on a bus... Full story

NATO offers apology over Afghan deaths in air strike

The US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan has apologised over the deaths of civilians in an air strike this week, a spokesman said on Friday. General John Allen flew to Logar province ‘to see local leaders... Full story

Tuareg rebels, ex-allies clash in northern Mali

Mali’s Tuareg rebels clashed overnight with their former Islamist allies, witnesses said Friday, after the two groups fell out over forming a breakaway state in the northern desert region they control. Full story

UN observers reach massacre site in Syria

UN monitors on Friday reached the site of an alleged new massacre on a second attempt after being shot at the previous day, activists said, as Kofi Annan urged united action to stop Syria’s crisis from spiralling. Full story

Iran, IAEA open new talks on nuclear access

The UN nuclear watchdog held fresh talks with Iran Friday in Vienna, where it was expected to push for access to a suspected testing site near Tehran. The agency’s chief inspector Herman Nackaerts and... Full story

Pneumonia, diarrhoea are top killers of children: UNICEF

Pneumonia and diarrhoea are among the top causes of childhood deaths around the world, particularly among the poor, said a report out Friday by the UN Children’s Fund. UNICEF said that while these two... Full story

Chavez’s days ‘numbered’: World Bank president

The days of cancer-stricken Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, are ‘numbered,’ and without his support the leftist regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua will struggle, outgoing World Bank chief Robert Zoellick said Thursday. Full story

S Korea accuses North of ‘crossing the line’

South Korea accused North Korea on Friday of ‘crossing the line’ with its recent threats and insults, and pressed the impoverished country to start repayments for past food aid. Full story

3 dies, 30 escape in Taliban prison break

Around 30 prisoners managed to escape an Afghan prison after Taliban gunmen attacked the jail, sparking clashes that left three inmates dead and 28 wounded, officials said Friday. Full story

Drones ‘inhumane’, dead al-Qaeda man’s family says

The brother of al Qaeda’s second-in-command, who was killed in a US drone strike, said Washington’s use of the remote-controlled weapons is inhumane and makes a nonsense of its claims to champion human rights. Full story

Hundreds demand Shafiq ban from Egypt election

Hundreds of people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to demand that Hosni Mubarak’s last premier be banned from standing in a run-off election to replace the ousted president. Full story

Sudan-South Sudan border talks ‘end without progress’

Peace talks between Khartoum and Juba to set up a demilitarised buffer zone have ended with Sudan accusing South Sudan of seeking to create ‘10 disputed areas,’ state media reported on Friday. Full story


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