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8 Die in Blast at Weapons Depot Published: November 23, 2009 An explosion at a navy weapons depot killed at least eight soldiers and injured several others on Monday, less than two weeks after a similar blast at the same depot killed two and forced...
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The Interior Ministry has seized 281 Kalashnikov rifles, 55 boxes of ammunition and 250 magazines from a rest house located in the outskirts of Riyadh. Investigators interrogating a cell of 44 Al-Qaeda-linked militants discovered the hideaway. “Interrogations...
Tags: armed cache, assault rifles, Saudi Interior Ministry, ministry spokesman, saudis authorities, Riyadh
They are thought to be the first executions in relation to the unrest, which left at least 22 people dead. There are reports that two more Tibetans have been executed, but that has not been confirmed. China also spoke out against Britain following criticism...
Tags: China, International Campaign for Tibet, Tibetan, international affairs, china confirmed, Lhasa, stop interfering, Loyak, ministry spokesman, Lobsang Gyaltsen
Two suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists were killed and another was arrested following a gunbattle with security forces in Jazan, Maj...Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said Tuesday. He said a security officer was killed and another was...
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Yemeni, Interior Ministry, al-Qaida, ministry spokesman, security forces, suspected al, saudi soldier, explosive vests, security officer
Ma Zhaoxu of the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Beijing was “seriously dissatisfied” by the visit by “the Indian leader”. The Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh travelled to the state on October 3 to campaign on behalf of his ruling Congress...
Tags: China India, China-India, Indian, Manmohan Singh, Arunachal Pradesh, prime minister, minister manmohan, dispute region, Ma Zhaoxu, ministry spokesman
The West, itself, knows that this language is useless," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi told reporters Monday. "We have always announced that we advocate negotiations," he added. Officials from Iran, the United States, Russia, France...
Tags: Iran Foreign Ministry, Iranian, Tehran, Hassan Qashqavi, ministry spokesman, spokesman hassan, West Foreign Ministry, nuclear rights
Roman Polanski will stay behind bars for now after Swiss justice authorities on Tuesday rejected his first appeal to be released from jail. Folco Galli, Justice Office spokesman, said no formal request had yet been received for the filmmaker to be sent...
Tags: Reuters Roman Polanski, Swiss Justice Ministry, Switzerland, Folco Galli, United States, director roman, possible extradition, spokesman folco, film director, ministry spokesman
We strongly condemn these illegal actions," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said on Sunday. "It is an insult to the intelligence of the Argentinean people that their judicial system pursues judicial cases in line with interests of the...
Tags: Sacked Iranian, Argentina, Hassan Qashqavi, Foreign Ministry, Tehran, nuclear policy, Hasan Qashqavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, ministry spokesman, prosecutor general
Beijing said last week it may appeal against the WTO panel's ruling, which upheld key parts of a US complaint about China's controls on cultural products, which Washington says hurt publishers, Hollywood and entertainment multinationals. Now a spokesman...
Tags: China, foreign direct, direct investment, WTO, Yao Jian, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, spokesman yao, ministry spokesman, straight monthly, foreign investment
SEOUL: North Korea test-fired four short-range missiles on Thursday, further stoking already high regional tension due to its nuclear test and threats to boost its nuclear arsenal in response to UN sanctions. The North, which often fires short-range missiles...
Tags: North Korea, South Korean Yonhap, range missiles, east coast, ship missiles, korea test, korea fired, Japan, Yonhap News Agency, ministry spokesman