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07 July 2013 • 11:45 AMT
14 soldiers, 64 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan

The Defense Ministry said 27 Taliban were killed, while the Interior Ministry reported 37 killed but no police casualties.

07 July 2013 • 11:34 AMT
Armenia celebrating Vardavar feast

In the Armenian Church, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ is celebrated 98 days following Easter.

07 July 2013 • 10:56 AMT
Russian Navy to get unprecedented number of warships in 2013

The eight strategic missile boats include three Borey and five Borey-A class vessels (SSBN) armed with Bulava ballistic missiles.

07 July 2013 • 10:52 AMT
IMF chief says U.S. federal budget cuts ‘inappropriate measure’

The IMF reckons growth would be as much as 1.75 percentage points higher if not for the rush to cut the government’s budget deficit.

07 July 2013 • 10:48 AMT
Radical cleric Abu Qatada deported from UK for trial in Jordan

Abu Qatada was first arrested over alleged terror connections in 2001 and the UK has been battling to deport him for eight years.

07 July 2013 • 10:39 AMT
Iran calls Egypt’s Morsi toppling ‘improper’ move

Morsi ended more than three decades of diplomatic estrangement with Iran that dated back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.

07 July 2013 • 10:33 AMT
2 killed, 180 injured as plane crashes at San Francisco airport

Images from the scene showed smoke billowing from the plane and emergency exits open from the plane’s fuselage.

06 July 2013 • 19:13 AMT
Cairo Criminal Court adjourns Mubarak trial to Aug 17

The release order was on grounds that they have spent the maximum legal time in detention for a re-trial.

06 July 2013 • 16:49 AMT
Train carrying petrochemicals explodes in Canadian town

The train had more than 70 cars filled with petroleum products, some of which exploded, setting fire to nearby homes.

06 July 2013 • 16:45 AMT
Turkish police fire teargas to disperse protesters in Istanbul square

The Taksim Solidarity Platform, combining an array of political groups, had called for a march to enter the sealed off Gezi park.

06 July 2013 • 16:41 AMT
Main Syrian opposition group elects new president

Al-Jarba is from the northeastern province of Hassakeh, and is a member of the powerful Shammar tribe that extends into Iraq.

06 July 2013 • 16:29 AMT
No battles reported in Armenian neighborhoods of Aleppo

“Three Armenians were wounded, one of them gravely in a recent shootout,” the spokesperson for Aleppo’s Armenian Prelacy said.

06 July 2013 • 14:58 AMT
29 pupils killed as suspected Islamists attack school in Nigeria

More than 600 people were believed to have been killed in 2012 by the group, which is fighting to overthrow the government.

06 July 2013 • 14:34 AMT
Turkish PM blasts West for not terming army intervention ‘a coup’

Erdoğan said he is surprised at the Western reaction to the coup and stated that these nations failed to describe it as a “coup.”

06 July 2013 • 10:59 AMT
MP: Baku report of Moldovan lawyer threats in Armenia false

Earlier, the Moldovan lawyer slammed Armenia as an “aggressor,” accusing Armenia of “occupying 20% of Azeri territory.”

06 July 2013 • 10:35 AMT
150 instances of Azeri ceasefire violation reported June 30- July 6

Azerbaijan fired over 800 shots from various caliber weapons towards Karabakh positions, NKR defense army said.

06 July 2013 • 10:21 AMT
3 soldiers killed in Yemeni bomb blast

The impoverished Arabian Peninsula country has been hit by violence attributed to Al-Qaeda fighters.

06 July 2013 • 10:17 AMT
Japan PM’s ruling bloc headed for big win in upper house election – survey

Newspaper surveys showed the LDP and its coalition partner, the New Komeito party, were on track to win more than 70 of the 121 seats.

06 July 2013 • 10:10 AMT
Sony unveils my Xperia security service

The software helps users locate their lost or stolen Xperia handset and can be used to protect data or remotely lock down a device.

06 July 2013 • 09:55 AMT
Huawei brings 4G network coverage to Mount Everest

Huawei & China Mobile have deployed LTE TDD technology at a base station some 5,200 metres above sea level, to provide mobile data for climbers.

06 July 2013 • 09:42 AMT
Venice Film Fest unveils 70th edition poster

The poster image was inspired by a scene starring Bruno Ganz from “Eternity and a Day,” the 1998 drama from Theodoros Angelopoulos.

06 July 2013 • 09:35 AMT
Doors frontman Jim Morrison new documentary in the works

Morrison died at the age of 27 in a Paris apartment, but this doc focuses exclusively on the future Lizard King’s early childhood through his college years.

06 July 2013 • 09:31 AMT
Powerful earthquake hits Indonesia

The quake happened four days after a magnitude 6.1 tremor killed at least 35 people and damaged over 4,300 buildings in Aceh province.

06 July 2013 • 07:59 AMT
Venezuela names Carmen Melendez as 1st woman defense minister

In Oct., Melendez was given a broad mandate to carry out inspections of govt. departments to investigate claims of inefficiency and corruption.

06 July 2013 • 07:53 AMT
Europe’s most wanted mafia boss caught in Colombia

Italian prosecutors accuse Pannunzi of establishing the transatlantic cocaine trade between Italy and Colombia.

06 July 2013 • 07:45 AMT
U.S. tests ground-based interceptor missile

The interceptor is one of about 30 deployed in Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base under a missile defence programme begun in 2004.

06 July 2013 • 07:32 AMT
“Despicable Me” No. 1 movie download on iTunes, Amazon

The Despicable Me game is also the top free iPhone app and No. 5 on Google Play’s list of free Android apps.

06 July 2013 • 07:29 AMT
Chris Evans in post-apocalyptic sci-fi “Snowpiercer” trailer

The film from director Bong Joon-ho is set in a future in which a failed experiment to put an end to global warming has resulted in an ice age.

06 July 2013 • 07:18 AMT
Twin explosions shut down Colombia’s 2nd largest oil pipeline

The explosions were likely carried out by a rebel group, a military source said, without attributing the attack specifically to the FARC.

06 July 2013 • 07:12 AMT
Shiites targeted in Iraq suicide attacks

Iraq has been facing its deadliest outburst of violence since 2008, with more than 2,000 people killed since the start of April.