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  • Two civilians among 13 dead in Pakistan car bomb Two civilians among 13 dead in Pakistan car bomb

    QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 13 people, including two civilians, were killed in a car bomb targeting a police vehicle in western Pakistani city of Quetta Thursday, police officials said. The bombing also injured at least 20 people in the capital of Baluchistan province, riven by Islamist militancy and a violent separatist insurgency. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the ...

  • Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials Kerry holds talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials

    JERUSALEM - US Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday separately began meetings with Israeli and Palestinian officials but appeared doubtful about his success on getting the two warring sides back to peace negotiations. This is Kerry's fourth trip to the Middle East in as many months of his assuming the office of the top US diplomat. He was been trying to revive a peace process that has been ...

  • Meeting of Syrian opposition leaders begins in Istanbul Meeting of Syrian opposition leaders begins in Istanbul

    ISTANBUL - Syrian opposition leaders Thursday began their three-day meeting in this Turkish capital city to decide on their participation in talks aimed at end the civil war in the country. As the meeting began in Istanbul a prominent Syrian figure in the opposition proposed a transition plan for the country that requires President Bashar al-Assad to hand over power to a senior aide and ...

  • On US request Russian arms dealer held in Lithuania

    Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the US Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Dmitry Ustinov, 46, was detained over a month ago at Vilnius airport in Lithuania, after he arrived from the US to allegedly negotiate a sales deal for night vision equipment used by the US military, the Delfi news ...

  • NKorean envoy delivers letter to Chinas president

    In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, greets North Korean Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae in Beijing Friday, May 24, 2013. The top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Xi on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for ...

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Dragonfly [DVD]

Dragonfly [DVD]

Dragonfly is a silly--though it takes itself very seriously--supernatural mystery-thriller about a man who believes his recently deceased wife is trying to communicate with him from beyond the grave. It attempts to take its place in the recent cycle of eerily dramatic ghost stories epitomized by the The Sixth Sense (1999) and The Others (2001), both of which are far su ... ...

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  • Eimskip Profits From Strong Reefer Volume in Intra-Asia

    Eimskip , the Icelandic shipping and logistics group, posted higher first quarter earnings and revenue as strong reefer traffic in intra-Asian trades more than offset flat container volumes in the North Atlantic.Net earnings more than tripled to 2.53 million euros ($3.3 million) from 582,000 euros ($757,000) in the first three months of 2012 on revenue up 12.4 percent at 105.3 million euros ...

  • Fire in British Airways flight from Heathrow shuts down both its runways

    LONDON: Air traffic in one of the world's busiest airports - Heathrow was completely thrown into chaos after a flight that took off for Oslo made a quick U-turn back following an engine fire. As many as 75 passengers had a close shave when a British Airways jet was forced to perform an emergency landing at Heathrow with smoke and flames pouring out from one of its engines. Eye-witnesses saw ...

  • GM Paragua shares Asian chess top spot with Li

    5.0 points--GM Mark Paragua (PH), GM Li Chao (Chn); 4.5--GM Julio Catalino Sadorra (PH), GM John Paul Gomez (PH), GM Le Quang Liem (Vie), GM Baskaran Adhiban (Ind), GM Subramanian Arun Prasad (Ind), GM Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb); 4.0--GM Richard Bitoon (PH), IM Wan Yunguo (Chn), GM Krishnan Sasikiran (Ind), GM G.N. Gopal (Ind), GM Santosh Gujrathi (Ind), IM Firman Syah Farid (Ina), GM Nguyen Ngoc ...

  • North Korea slams South Korean leader as confrontation maniac

    Park Geun-hye of hurting the dignity of its leadership and slammed her as "a confrontation maniac". The warning came a day after Park denounced North Korean ...

  • Asian Stocks End Mixed Nikkei Rises After Turbulent Trading

    Asian stocks traded mixed on Friday, with extreme volatility in Japanese shares keeping investors nervous. Japan's Nikkei index swung over 1,000 points for a second day in a row before ending notably higher on optimism over earnings growth and ...

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