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Terror in Mumbai — Documentary

By Atanu Dey Thu, Nov 19, 2009 8:45PM UTC

The Truth Behind The 26/11 Mumbai Attacks! is an exclusive interview with Dan Reed who made the documentary “Terror in Mumbai.” This is the complete story of what exactly happened on 26 November 2008 when a bunch of terrorists attacked Mumbai. Commissioned by Channel 4, UK, award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed gets

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Thai police make 4th arrest for rumors about king

By Thu, Nov 19, 2009 8:39PM UTC

Police in Thailand have detained a fourth person suspected of using the Internet to spread rumors about the king’s health, but plan no further arrests, a senior police officer said Thursday. Police Maj. Gen. Kriangsak Arunsrisophon, commander of the Economic and Cyber Crime Division, said Tassaporn Ratwongsa, a hospital radiologist,

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19 killed in courthouse bombing in Pakistan

By Thu, Nov 19, 2009 7:51PM UTC

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region. The bombing was the seventh attack in less than two weeks in and around Peshawar, the

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Tiananmen leader tried on fraud charges

By Thu, Nov 19, 2009 6:52PM UTC

An exiled former leader of the 1989 student pro-democracy movement went on trial on financial fraud charges Thursday in southwestern China, a case highlighted by his controversial handover to the mainland from Hong Kong. No verdict was announced at the end of Zhou Yongjun’s five-hour hearing in the Sichuan province

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