South says 4 N.Koreans defect, rest to be sent back

South says 4 N.Koreans defect, rest to be sent back


South says 4 N.Koreans defect, rest to be sent back

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:36 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - Four of the 31 North Koreans who drifted last month across a tensely guarded sea border between the rival Koreas have expressed their wish to defect and will not be sent back when the rest are repatriated on Friday, the South said.



Iranian navy ships enter Egypt's Suez Canal

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:36 AM PST

CAIRO (Reuters) - Two Iranian navy ships have entered Egypt's Suez Canal and are expected to reach the Red Sea later in the day, a source in the canal authority said on Thursday.



Gaddafi rebels look to Tripoli, peace plan mooted

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:36 AM PST

BREGA, Libya (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan army faced an increasingly organised and confident rebel force on Thursday which is appealing for international support and looking to take its military successes west towards Tripoli.



Citizens of the Apple Kingdom

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:33 AM PST

Many young people are actually living in the Apple Kingdom. Whenever they switch on their iPhones, iPads, iMacs or iPods, they will enter the Apple Kingdom and become its loyal people.

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Libya rebels brace for new attack

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:30 AM PST

AJDABIYA, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - Libyan rebels rushed to reinforce the key eastern oil port of Brega on Thursday, fearing a new onslaught a day after routing forces loyal to strongman Moamer Kadhafi.

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Yemen opposition, clerics offer Saleh smooth exit

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:29 AM PST

SANAA, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - Yemeni opposition groups and religious leaders have offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans for a smooth exit from power by the end of 2011, an opposition spokesman said Thursday.

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41 die on north India's mountain roads

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:28 AM PST

SHIMLA, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - At least 41 people, including 34 members of a wedding party, have died in two separate road accidents on the treacherous mountain roads of northern Indian, an official told AFP Thursday.

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N. Korea pleading for food aid: minister

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:27 AM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - North Korea has stepped up calls for international food aid amid shortages caused by its economic mismanagement and military spending, South Korea's foreign minister said Thursday.

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India's tainted anti-corruption chief removed

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:26 AM PST

NEW DELHI, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - India's graft-tainted government suffered a fresh setback Thursday when its candidate to be the country's chief corruption fighter was rejected by the Supreme Court because of a pending criminal case.

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Indonesian police suspected of gang-raping teenager

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:25 AM PST

JAYAPURA, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - Indonesian police said Thursday four officers would be charged over the "unforgivable" gang rape of a 15-year-old girl in Papua province.

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Four N. Koreans who came South by boat want to stay: Seoul

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:23 AM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - Four of the 31 North Koreans whose boat crossed into South Korean waters last month are unwilling to be sent home, Seoul's unification ministry said Thursday.

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Minor leaks found on Singapore A380 engines

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:22 AM PST

SINGAPORE, Thursday 3 March 2011 (AFP) - Singapore Airlines (SIA) said Thursday it had discovered five cases of oil leaks on the Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines powering its Airbus A380 planes.

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Home decorated with beer cans

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:15 AM PST

Johor Bahru – Cai Ming-yi, 56, from Johor Bahru drinks a can of beer every hour, a total of eight to 10 cans a day. He has also been collecting thousands of beer cans from more than 40 countries such as South America, Europe, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe during his visits to these places.

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India court rejects anti-graft chief for involvement in palm oil import case

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:24 AM PST

NEW DELHI March 3 – India's Supreme Court today quashed the appointment of the country's top anti-graft official for involvement in a palm oil import case, in another rebuke for the Congress-led coalition government. The rejection of P.J. Thomas's appointment as central vigilance commissioner comes as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is ...


Gaddafi rebels look to Tripoli, peace plan mooted

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:54 PM PST

BREGA, Libya, March 3 — Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan army faced an increasingly organised and confident rebel force today that is appealing for international support and looking to take its military successes west towards Tripoli. As the struggle between Gaddafi loyalists and rebels who have taken swathes of Libya intensified, Arab League ...


Pakistan media warns of growing chaos as minister slain

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:05 AM PST

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is being swept towards violent chaos by a growing wave of Islamist extremism, newspapers said on Thursday, a day after Taliban militants killed the country's only Christian government minister.



Bangladesh Nobel winner begins legal fight over removal

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:34 PM PST

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus launched a legal battle on Thursday against his removal from the post of managing director of the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank, which he founded, lawyers said.



School student among three H1N1 victims this year

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:19 PM PST

A form four school student in Kajang is among three people who died from H1N1 this year, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai.

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Termination letters to untrained attachment teachers withdrawn - DPM

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:16 PM PST

The termination letters issued to untrained attachment teachers (GSTT) last year have been withdrawn, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced today.

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21 charged for attending illegal Hindraf assembly

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:14 PM PST

Twenty-one people, including five women, pleaded not guilty at the Magistrate's Court here today to the charge of jointly participating in an illegal Hindraf assembly.

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