Archive for  January 2010
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The training camp of Pakistan hockey team for Hero Honda FIH Hockey world cup will be held from 25th January at National Hockey Stadium Lahore. The Selection committee of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has announced
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US Open champion Kim Clijsters, who came out of retirement last year after a two-year break, was left feeling disorientated on her return to the Australian Open. The 26-year-old, who gave birth to a daughter
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Australia's bid for a record-equalling 12th successive Test cricket victory against Pakistan is at mercy of Hobart's notoriously fickle weather as well as a flat Bellerive pitch after skipper Ricky Ponting surprisingly elected not to
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An Iran Air Airbus with 173 passengers on board went off the runway while preparing for takeoff from Stockholm's Arlanda airport Saturday, the Aviation Herald website said. The Teheran-bound plane was travelling at low speed
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest opposition group, chose a conservative member to be their new supreme guide, the group's former leader Mohammed Mahdi Akef said Saturday. Akef told reporters that members chose Mohammed Badie,
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Britain's Ministry of Defence on Saturday announced the deaths of two of its soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, where one more foreign soldier and 11 Taliban were also killed in separate
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President Barack Obama will a make last-minute campaign trip Sunday to support a Democrat who needs to win an unexpectedly close special election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat in order to
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Kenya will deport jailed Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal "without delay" after a protest against his detention triggered battles with police in the capital Nairobi, a minister said on Saturday. Kenyan security forces used
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US Middle East envoy George Mitchell is expected in Damascus next week for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Western sources said Saturday. Mitchell will discuss developments in the peace process with al-Assad, as well
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Japan and South Korea on Saturday brushed aside North Korea's call for early talks on a peace treaty, saying they have no plans to lift sanctions unless it first makes progress in scrapping nuclear weapons.
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