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U.N., N. Korea back in ship sinking talks

By CNN.com

The U.S.-led United Nations Command will meet again Friday with North Korea to discuss the sinking of a South Korean warship, according to the U.S. Forces Korea website.

2 injured in firing by security forces on stone pelters in Srinagar

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

Security forces on Friday opened fire on stone pelting protesters taking out a march on a call given by separatists, leaving two youth injured, one of them seriously.

British author defiant in court

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

A BRITISH author facing a possible jail term over his book criticising Singapore’s use of the death penalty was defiant following his first court hearing on Friday.

Alan Shadrake appeared in a packed courtroom to hear contempt of court charges levelled against him by the Attorney General following the local launch of his book ‘Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock’.


British PM rules out return of the Kohinoor

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

British PM David Cameron, on a three-day visit to India, has clearly ruled out the return of the Kohinoor diamond to India, saying if such demands were agreed to, it would lead to empty rooms in British Museums.

Rail deaths: Misadventure

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

A STATE coroner on Friday found that a young couple killed along an Upper Bukit Timah railway track last August were too intoxicated and tired to react and move themselves away from the path of an oncoming train.

Coroner Eddy Tham recorded a verdict of misadventure on the deaths of Republic Polytechnic students Mr Goh Sheng Yao, 19, and Miss Clara Lee Jing Yu, 20.

SY Quraishi takes charge as CEC

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

SY Quraishi on Friday took over as India’s new chief election commissioner (CEC), becoming the first Muslim in the country to occupy the post.

AP bypolls: TRS wins two seats, leads in four others

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

TRS has retained two Assembly constituencies and was leading in four others among the 12 Assembly segments in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh where bypolls were held on July 27.

TRS leading in 11 constituencies in Telangana by-polls

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

The Telangana Rashtra Samiti is leading in 11 constituencies and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in one as the counting of votes in the by-elections to 12 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region began on Friday morning.

4 CRPF troopers killed, 15 injured in Assam landmine explosion

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

At least four paramilitary CRPF troopers were killed and 15 injured, four of them critically, in a powerful landmine explosion Friday in Holmari in Assam’s Goalpara district.

Sunshine Empire pair jailed

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

THE flamboyant founder of Sunshine Empire, who amassed $180 million in 15 months, and his former director were jailed by a court on Friday for running a fraudulent scheme and for faking accounts.

James Phang Wah, 50, and former director Jackie Hoo Choon Cheat, 30, had enriched themselves by at least $8 million through Sunshine’s multi-level marketing scheme.

S’pore family held in drug raid

By Straits Times Interactive - SE ASIA

JOHOR BARU – A SINGAPOREAN family of three was among six people nabbed here recently in raids which also netted drugs said to be enough to supply 90,000 addicts in the city.

The drugs – ketamine and Ecstasy powder and pills weighing more than 8kg – are said to have a street value of more than RM500,000 (S$213,593).

16 arrested in raids

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

POLICE have arrested 12 men and four women in an island-wide operation against unlicensed moneylending activities.

Officers from Clementi Police Division conducted simultaneous raids at various locations on Thursday in a 17- hour operation, resulting in the arrest of the suspects.

Officials: Mexican drug lord killed in raid

By CNN.com

Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, a top leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, has been killed during a military raid in Guadalajara, Mexico, sources have told CNN.

Deadly floods unleash chemical barrels

By CNN.com

Rising waters from flooding in northeastern China hit a chemical plant and washed thousands of containers filled with explosive chemicals into a river, state media said Thursday.

More girls raped by driver

By Straits Times Interactive - SE ASIA

PETALING JAYA – THE alleged rapist who forced himself on a young girl in the school bus he was driving on Monday is believed to have made at least two other children victims of his lust.

One of them, it is learned, is the bus driver’s adopted daughter. Parents of the other child have not made any police report against the man.

At least 90 dead in Pakistan flooding

By CNN.com

At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN.

Counting of votes for 12 assembly seats in Telangana today

By India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Times of India

The fate of Andhra Pradesh Congress president D Srinivas, TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao’s son K T Rama Rao and other candidates in the by-polls held for 12 assembly seats in Telangana region would be known on Friday.

26,500 jobs added in Q2

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE’S companies added an estimated 26,500 jobs to the total employment, continuing the gains for the third straight quarters as the economy expanded strongly from April to June.

But the job gains were lower than the 36,500 in the first quarter, as manufacturing shed 2,400 jobs, after adding 3,100 in the earlier quarter, said the Ministry of Manpower in a statement on Friday morning.

Gulf oil cleanup chief details plans

By CNN.com

The man overseeing the federal response to the Gulf oil disaster will meet New Orleans parish presidents Thursday to outline the plans after the well is permanently sealed.

1 hurt in Bangkok blast

By Straits Times Interactive - SE ASIA

BANGKOK – A GRENADE exploded early on Friday on a street in central Bangkok, leaving one person seriously hurt in the latest violence in the Thai capital, still recovering from deadly protests, officials said.

The grenade was put in a plastic rubbish bag and dropped in Rangnam road near a duty-free shopping centre, police said. The injured person was a Thai man in his 30s who was searching for scrap.

Leaders back Palestinian-Israeli talks

By CNN.com

Arab leaders gave the Palestinian Authority Thursday the green light for direct talks with Israel, a move that prompted the Israeli prime minister to say his country is ready for the face-to-face talks as well.

Heavy rain, flood alert

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

SCORES of morning rush-hour workers braved gusty winds and heavy rain as they headed to work on Friday.

A tree fell at Diary Farm Road, hitting and injuring a motorcyclist.

Heavy rains, flood alert

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

SCORES of morning rush-hour workers braved gusty winds and rain as they headed to work on Friday.

A tree fell at Diary Farm Road, hitting and injuring a motorcyclist.

Al-Shabaab denies it’s in Puntland

By CNN.com

A spokesman for the militant group Al-Shabaab denied Thursday that it has been involved in recent fighting in northeastern Somalia’s semiautonomous region of Puntland, but said the group supports it.

S’pore wins 18 Olympiad medals

By Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE won a total of 18 medals at four International Olympiads for Science and Mathematics in July.

Four teams brought in a total haul of four gold, 13 silver and one bronze medal and one honourable mention at the 21st International Biology Olympiad, 41st International Physics Olympiad, 42nd International Chemistry Olympiad and 51st International Mathematical Olympiad.

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