Archive for  December 2012
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should not agreed to play a short series in India without any reassurances from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), former ICC chief Ehsan Mani said on Monday.
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Popular Indian football club Mohun Bagan faced a three-year ban from the country's top league on Monday for refusing to continue a match after crowd violence in Kolkata injured one of their players, reports said.
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Indonesia is facing a possible suspension from world football after two rival associations failed to reunite in time for a Monday deadline set by world governing-body FIFA. Indonesian Football Association (PSSI) chairman Djohar Arifin Husin
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Germany has expelled four Syrian embassy staff as part of a drive to reduce ties with President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Monday. Berlin has told Syria's acting envoy that the four
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Jenni Rivera, one of Mexico's most popular singers, died when her plane crashed after a concert. She was 43. The Learjet 25 crashed Sunday in northern Mexico, killing all seven people on board, Alejandro Argudin,
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China's wealth gap has widened to a level where it is among the world's most unequal nations, a Chinese academic institute said in a survey, as huge numbers of poor are left behind by the
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Romania's governing coalition comfortably won a weekend parliamentary poll, results showed on Monday, in an outcome likely to fuel tensions that have raised concern over the democratic credentials of one of EU's newest members. The
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Egypt's government has temporarily given the military the authority to arrest civilians to help safeguard a constitutional referendum planned for Saturday, the official gazette said. The order, gazetted late on Sunday, said the military would
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The European Union, facing its worst crisis in six decades, was officially awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize on Monday for turning Europe "from a continent of war to a continent of peace." With a
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British defence giant BAE Systems will complete construction of the Royal Navy's new submarine HMS Audacious in a deal worth £1.2 billion, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Monday. The contract (equivalent to $1.9 billion,
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