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  • Multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted Multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring with terror links busted

    NEW YORK - Authorities in New York are claiming to have busted a multi-million cigarette smuggling ring and arrested at least 16 Palestinian immigrants having alleged links with known terror organisations. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and NYPD Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Thursday said that the 16 members of the criminal ring in New York City, Albany County and Schenectady County ...

  • Russian cruise missiles sent to Syria Russian cruise missiles sent to Syria

    WASHINGTON - Russia has sent advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria in a move that underscores its support to the beleaguered regime of President Bashar Al Assad in the war-torn Arab nation, officials citing credible intelligence reports said here. The New York Times reported Friday that the new missiles sent to Syria have an advanced radar system that makes them "more effective". ...

  • Premier Li Keqiangs maiden foreign visit set to bolster Sino-India ties

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's maiden visit to India symbolises the rising significance of New Delhi as the two Asian giants seek to overcome a chequered past and border tensions to broaden strategic ties and boost bilateral trade. Premier Li arrives in India on Sunday on his first foreign trip since assuming office. He would also visit Pakistan, Germany and Switzerland during the week-long ...

  • China police arrest man after plane bomb threats

    BEIJING (AFP) - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the Beijing News reported.One flight from Guangzhou on Friday ...

  • Hard-line Afghan MPs block law protecting women

    KABUL, Afghanistan -; An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic ...

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Michael

An angel who smokes, drinks, parties all night and has a libido larger than his wingspan? And, he's an archangel no less? Obviously, this description paints a picture contrary to every theological concept of angels ever written, but that wasn't on the minds of Peter Dexter, Jim Quinlan, Nora Ephron and her sister, Delia Ephron, when they penned "Michael." ...

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  • Outraged by kidnapping Egyptian police block Gaza crossing

    Palestinian travellers , witnesses said. The protest began on Friday when police strung barbed wire across the Rafah border post and chained up the gates, local residents said, a day after the abductions. Gunmen demanding the release of jailed Islamist militants had seized seven policemen and soldiers on a road between the Sinai towns of el-Arish and Rafah. Three of those abducted had worked at ...

  • North Korea fires three missiles as nuclear programme slows down according to UN

    North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on development of their prohibited weapons, UN experts say in a new ...

  • Pakistan adopts Chinese rival GPS satellite system

    Pakistan is set to become the fifth Asian country to use China's domestic satellite navigation system, launched as a rival to the US global positioning system, a report said ...

  • Tamils want to live in one country Rajapaksa

    LTTE . Rajapaksa said that Tamils now want to live peacefully in a single country. His government had faced various machinations by way of human rights accusations. "The hidden idea was to crush us, how to make us kneel before them," he said. Rajapaksa, paying tribute to his troops in a colourful military parade, said he would not allow the separation of the land that troops had ...

  • Chinese held in PoK over Quran abuse

    MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan: A Chinese man working on an energy project in PoK was held on Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of a Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower project, was accused by co-Pakistani workers of throwing ...

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