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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 12 people across Indonesia and the capital’s main airport was briefly shut on Friday as more than 40 flights were delayed due to low visibility. Scores of cars were stranded and people had to wade through murky knee-high water in many parts of Jakarta, […]

President Pervez Musharraf distributed a 15-page letter against the detained chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry among 30 top journalists of London on an exclusive breakfast meeting here last Monday, to convince the western media that the top judge was corrupt and was rightly dismissed on March 9 followed by his detention on November […]

At least nine Lebanese opposition supporters were shot dead in Beirut on Sunday in some of the worst street violence since Lebanon’s 1975-90 civil war, raising tensions in a country gripped by political conflict. A senior opposition source said all the dead were members of Hezbollah or Amal — Muslim groups that have been locked […]