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Tuesday 13 May 2008
Serial blasts rip Indian tourist city
A series of bomb blasts tore through the western Indian city of Jaipur Tuesday, killing 80 people and injuring hundreds, according to government officials. The attacks occurred in the crowded walled city, a popular tourist destination.
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- INDIA - BOMB ATTACK
- Serial blasts rip Indian tourist city
- Tuesday 13 May 2008
- A series of bomb blasts tore through the western Indian city of Jaipur Tuesday, killing 80 people and injuring hundreds, according to government officials. The attacks occurred in the crowded walled city, a popular tourist destination.
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- CHINA - EARTHQUAKE
- At least 12,000 dead, scores buried in Chinese quake
- Tuesday 13 May 2008
- Government sources said on Tuesday that 18,645 people were buried under debris in the city of Miangyang, near the epicentre of the earthquake that rocked China's Sichuan province on Monday. The official death toll nears 12,000. (Story: A. Dupuis)
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- PAKISTAN - POLITICS
- Sharif's party to pull out of Pakistani cabinet
- Tuesday 13 May 2008
- Members of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party will resign from their cabinets posts on Tuesday, in protest over failure to reinstate 60 judges dismissed under emergency rule last year. (Report: J. Le Masurier)
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- BURMA - CYCLONE
- UN calls for air corridor to Burma
- Tuesday 13 May 2008
- A UN humanitarian agency called for a coordinated effort in Burma to create an "air or sea corridor to channel aid in large quantities" to speed up the cyclone relief process to those in need and head off a "second catastrophe". Cyril Payen reports.
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- INDIA - KASHMIR
- Rebel clash leaves eight dead in Indian Kashmir
- Monday 12 May 2008
- The death toll in a weekend gunfight between Islamic rebels and troops in Indian-administered Kashmir has risen to eight, a senior military officer said Monday.
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- CHINA - PRICE
- Chinese inflation nears 12-year high
- Monday 12 May 2008
- Beijing announced the need for stronger measures to handle inflation Monday, in the wake of last month's 8.5% rate increase. The major concern comes from food prices, which have risen 22.1% in the past year.
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- THE OBSERVERS - BURMA
- Desperate attempts to escape the cyclone
- Monday 12 May 2008
- Desperate attempts to escape the cyclone
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- NEPAL - PROTESTS
- Over 500 Tibetan women detained in Nepal
- Sunday 11 May 2008
- Nepalese police detained over 500 Tibetan women in Kathmandu following the first all-women demonstration against Chinese rule in Tibet. Nepal has been cracking down on protests against China, one of its key trading partners.
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