Sunday, 25 September 2011

Pulitzer winner's Nigeria newspaper stops printing (AP)

AP - A Nigerian newspaper run by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist stopped publication Sunday after 2 1/2 years of muckracking and sometimes controversial coverage of Africa's most populous nation, the publisher said.


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Suicide attack kills 4 in eastern Afghanistan (AP)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, reacts after a man attempts to kiss his hand as he receives condolences from Afghan and the other nationalities high ranking delegations during a memorial service for former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at the mosque of presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Sept. 24, 2011. Rabbani was slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a peace message from the Taliban. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - Afghan police say a suicide bomber on a motorbike has detonated his explosives outside a local police headquarters, killing four people.



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Reuters - A mayor who backs a plan to build a new nuclear reactor in his western Japanese town was reelected on Sunday, Kyodo news reported, a sign that atomic power still has pockets of support in the country despite the Fukushima nuclear crisis.


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16 killed as Filipino troops clash with militants (AP)

AP - Suspected Muslim militants attacked government troops guarding a school construction site in a rebel stronghold on Sunday, igniting a clash that killed 13 gunmen, two marines and at least one villager, a marine commander and a resident said.


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Pakistani commanders meet after US criticism (AP)

Pakistani protesters burn representations of US and Indian flags  at an anti-American rally in Multan, Pakistan on Friday, Sept 23, 2011. Pakistan lashed out at the U.S. for accusing the country's most powerful intelligence agency of supporting extremist attacks against American targets in Afghanistan — the most serious allegations against Islamabad since the beginning of the Afghan war. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - Pakistan's army chief will convene a special meeting of senior commanders Sunday following U.S. allegations that the military's spy agency helped militants attack American targets in Afghanistan, the army said.



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Suicide bomber attacks church in Indonesia (Reuters)

Reuters - A suspected suicide bomber attacked a church on Indonesia's Java island on Sunday, killing himself and one other person, a police officer and a government minister said.


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Tourist flight crashes in Nepal, killing 19 aboard (AP)

AP - A plane that was carrying tourists to view Mount Everest crashed while attempting to land in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, including 13 foreigners, officials said.


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