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New Taliban target: ringtones
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» PESHAWAR - Pakistani Taliban have threatened to bomb a mobile phone market for the "shameless" selling of video clips, ringtones and accessories, officials said on Saturday.
Thousands rally in Moscow as US, Russia adoption row flares
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Russia on Saturday said it was concerned by a US ruling that the death of an adopted Russian boy in Texas was an accident, fuelling a diplomatic row as several thousand people marched in Moscow demanding an end to all foreign adoptions.
Bangladesh students held for murder of blogger
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Police arrested five students Saturday on charges of murdering an anti-Islamist blogger, as four people were killed in fresh protests over the sentencing to death of an Islamic party leader for war crimes.
Tensions mount as tight Kenya poll race enters final lap
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Kenyan presidential hopefuls made a final bid to woo voters Saturday on the last day of campaigning for the tightly fought March 4 elections, the first since deadly post-poll unrest five years ago.
Iran says Syria's Assad will fight 2014 election
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Syria's close ally Iran said on Saturday that President Bashar al-Assad will take part in next year's presidential election and that it is up to the Syrian people to choose their own leader.
Kerry presses for Egypt political consensus
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday urged bickering Egyptian political leaders to forge a consensus to pave the way for aid that could help lift their country out of its deep economic crisis.
Italy's Grillo urges debt renegotiation
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Beppe Grillo, whose anti-establishment party unexpectedly captured a quarter of the vote in Italy's inconclusive elections, wants to renegotiate his crisis-hit country's debt, according to a German report on Saturday.
Australian troops 'kill two Afghan children'
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan shot dead two children tending cattle, officials said Saturday, in an incident likely to escalate tensions over the conduct of international troops.
China football fans' fury over Zhang's move
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Chinese football fans expressed fury Saturday over reports that the man once tipped to head the sport's top body in Asia may have been "sacrificed" by Beijing in its drive to dominate the Olympics.
Tsumori Chisato celebrates colour at Paris fashion week
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Japan's Tsumori Chisato on Saturday feasted on colour at Paris fashion week while Australian Martin Grant oozed sophisticated chic in palate cleansing black, grey and pastel pink.