China is likely to spend more than 3 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) to promote education in 2007, Finance Minister Jin Renqing said Friday.
"China's financial expenditure on education is likely to exceed 3 percent of GDP, and the... More |
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 | Canada's national security agencies suffered the worst kind of intelligence failure prior to the 1985 bombings of an Air India plane, the head of the Air India 'Kanishka' inquiry heard Monday.
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 | Six militant leaders of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), charged with bomb blasts and suicide attacks, will be hanged by March 26 after the Bangladeshi president rejected their clemency appeal.
Iajuddin Ahmed rejected their mercy appeal... More |
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 | At least 21 people, including 10 children and eight women, were killed Tuesday when a fire broke out in a slum in Bangladesh's Chittagong city, media reports said.
Ten people were injured, four of them seriously, in the fire that broke out at... More |
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 | At least 26 Iraqis were killed in a central Baghdad bombing Monday as violence continued only a day after Premier Nuri al-Maliki had deemed media reports of such violence exaggerated, and sometimes spawned by malice.
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 | Citing terrorist attacks on trains in Madrid, London and Mumbai, a Democratic US lawmaker has introduced a bill to improve the security of rail and road public transportation systems in his country.
"Tragically, transit and rail systems have... More |
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 | Unknown thieves have stolen a Nobel Prize from a science museum at the University of California, Berkeley, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The prize, a gold medal awarded in 1939 to the late physicist Ernest O Lawrence for his invention of... More |
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 | India's Republic Day, Jan 26, has been declared Indian-American Day in Virginia in recognition of the immigrant community's contribution in changing the American state's face.
"The face of Virginia is changing, and the immigrant community is... More |
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 | The European Union (EU) Monday banned airlines from Pakistan and Sudan from landing at European airports because of their failure to meet EU safety standards.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will be allowed to fly into the 27-member EU... More |
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Pakistani authorities claimed to have arrested a suspected militant wanted for several high-profile killings and sectarian attacks, the Dawn reported Monday.
Hammad Riaz Naqvi, of the Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan, a banned sectarian outfit, was... More |
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