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Afghanistan: NATO Confesses Killing of Children

14 Feb 2012 12:31 | World News

  On Monday the NATO led forces in Afghanistan said that Afghan children were mistakenly killed in an air strike which has infuriated the Afghan government as well. NATO said further that these killing might be linked to an anti-insurgent opera ... | Read

Israel Accuses Iran of Complicity in Embassy Attacks

14 Feb 2012 12:10 | World News

  On Monday the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, blamed Iran of involvement in the two attacks on Israeli embassies in India and Georgia which resulted in injuring two Israelis, one of them a woman. Netanyahu, while addressing memb ... | Read

Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Temperatures Exceed Safety Standards

13 Feb 2012 10:44 | World News

On Sunday, Japanese scientists said that the temperature readings at one of the most damaged nuclear reactor's of last year’s disaster Fukushima, have risen above the country’s severe new safety standard, but there was no immediate danger. Th ... | Read

Two Pakistanis Shot Dead by Afghan Forces

13 Feb 2012 10:09 | World News

According to Pakistani officials on Sunday, the Afghan security forces kidnapped two Pakistanis in southwestern Baluchistan province of Pakistan and shot them. Naseebullah Bazai, the secretary of tribal affairs, told AFP that on Friday some two d ... | Read

Iraq: 14 Executions In One Day, Annual Toll Reaches 65

09 Feb 2012 12:01 | World News

  A senior Iraqi justice ministry official said that the country had conducted 14 executions in a single day this week, as most of them were members of Al-Qaeda. This has now brought the total number of executions this year to 65. The governme ... | Read