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BEIJING - At least 24 people were killed and 207 others injured in an earthquake that struck a remote area of southwest China near the border with Myanmar on Thursday, a local official said. The tremor reduced hundreds of houses to rubble, left some desperate residents trapped under buildings and triggered power cuts in the surrounding area of China, though no casualties were reported in Myanmar.
The epicentre of the 5.4-magnitude quake, which struck at 12:58pm (0458 GMT), was

PESHAWAR - At least 36 people were killed and more than 50 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in Adezai village on the Peshawar-Kohat Road on Wednesday. The attack was the second in the country in as many days, following Tuesday's car bombing near the office of the Inter-Services Intelligence in Faisalabad. Police said that the explosion took place when around 300 people were preparing to offer funeral prayers for a relative of an active member of the Adezai

RAS JDIR - Troops loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took the main square of Zawiyah on Wednesday, residents said, but rebels who pulled back under heavy assault vowed to counterattack. Al Jazeera satellite television said several members of Gaddafi's forces, including a general and a colonel, were killed in fighting that a local doctor said had claimed at least 40 lives and probably many more. Libyan state TV showed many dozens of what it said were loyalist demonstrators marching

TRIPOLI - At least 18 people, including a baby, were killed in the fighting in the Libyan town of Misrata on Sunday, a doctor in the embattled country said. "We have 18 martyrs but the figure is not final. We also have many people wounded, I cannot even count them," said the doctor, who worked at Misrata main hospital, adding that the dead included rebels and civilians. Troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, meanwhile, launched counter-offensives against rebel-held towns, increasing fears

CAIRO - Two men were killed during clashes in Egypt between Muslims and Christians, which also saw Muslims set fire to a church in the village of Sol, south of Cairo, a security official said on Saturday. "Two people were killed, and the Shahedain church set on fire in clashes between two families," the official told the MENA news agency.
The violence was triggered by a feud between the families, which disapproved of a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers killed four protesters and wounded seven others on Friday when they opened fire on an anti-regime rally in the northern province of Amran, officials and Shia rebels said. The shooting, which came a day after the opposition and clerics offered embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh a smooth exit from power, took place in the village of Semla, 170 kilometres from the capital Sanaa. "Two protesters were killed and nine others were wounded when soldiers opened fire

LAHORE - A man lost his life on Wednesday late night hours when bullets were fired at him in a scuffle between two groups of cable operators in the jurisdiction of the Green Town Police. The deceased was identified as the Muhammad Hussain, 28-years-old, a resident of Sattu Katla.
Hussain got injured in a scuffle between two cable operators groups namely Bhola group and Faryad group over the rights of the distribution of TV cable in the PCSIR colony and Qaisar, a member of the

LAHORE - As many as 10 people were injured and one died in a scuffle between two cable network groups over cable distribution rights in Green Town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Qaisar (20), a Satukatla resident.
The injured were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Khaild Hussain, Mazhar Hussain, Akram, Yousaf, Ghulam Murtaza, Faryad and others. The scuffle started between two groups: Faryad Group and Bhola Group on the ownership of a cable contract in PCSIR (Staffers

QUETTA - Three people were killed in separate incidents of firing in Balochistan on Monday. According to police, unknown armed men riding a motorbike targeted Mir Alam, the son of a religious scholar of Zikri sect, in Turbat town of Kechh district.
As a result, he received multiple bullet injuries and succumbed to his injured before receiving medical attention.
The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained. Two persons were killed in an armed clash between two

KARACHI - The body of an MQM activist was found in the limits of Eidgah police station on Monday. Eidgah SHO Nawaz Gondal said that 25-year-old Arsalan, son of Muhammad Sharif, was found dead near the Old Haji Camp in the Ghas Mandi area. The hands of the victim had been tied with rope, suggesting he was kidnapped before being shot dead. The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).
The victim was a resident of the Garden area and had been missing since Sunday night,

RIO DE JANEIRO - A high-voltage electric powerline crashed atop a float, killing at least 16 people participating in a parade ahead of Brazil's Carnival celebrations, health officials said on Monday. The 7,000 cable short-circuited late Sunday when it came tumbling down over a metallic coil, causing multiple deaths and injuries in the town of Bandeiro do Sul in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the O Globo and Estado de Sao Paulo newspapers reported.At least 12 people who were

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif told Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in writing that he would be stepping into practical politics since his agreement to not participate in politics for 10 years had ended.
Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif called on the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Pakistan Ibrahim Al Ghadir in Islamabad and handed over the letter. Sources said the letter contained information about Nawaz's active role in future

KARACHI - Unidentified men opened fire on a police vehicle in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Saturday night, killing two policemen. Mobina Town SHO said that head constable Zahir Shah and police constable Maqsood Ahmed were patrolling Quaid-e-Azam Colony in a mobile unit when two men on a motorcycle opened fire at them.
Shah suffered four bullet wounds in his upper torso and died on the spot, whereas Ahmed, who had also suffered multiple bullet wounds, succumbed to his injuries at the

QUETTA - Two people were shot dead in separate incidents in Kuchlak and Panjgur town on Saturday while the security forces recovered a huge cache of arms from Dukki area, police said.
Unidentified armed motorcyclists opened fire on Jamal-ud-Din in Kuchlak town, in the outskirts of Quetta. As a result, he received critical wounds and succumbed to his injuries. The assailants fled the scene. Police said the motive behind the killing was yet to be ascertained.
Meanwhile,

COLOMBO - Batsmen Mohammad Hafeez and Kamran Akmal were left wondering which of them was out on Saturday against Sri Lanka in the World Cup after a mix-up left them both comically stranded at the same end. Kamran Akmal scampered to the striker's end for a quick single when Hafeez swept the ball behind the wicket facing off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan's in the 13th over.
Hafeez did not move an inch, even after Sri Lanka wicketkeeper and skipper Kumar Sangakkara's initial throw

ISLAMABAD - Contrary to the tall claims of health ministry that it provides comprehensive health cover to the masses, the capital city hospitals have only one mortuary and that too with insufficient capacity to cater to the needs of people in an emergency situation effectively.
One mortuary in the capital city is built in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), one of Islamabad's major government run hospital and it has the capacity to accommodate only 10 dead bodies.

ISLAMABAD - Abdul Latif, a 50 year old employee of the Economic Afairs Division (EAD), was shot dead on Saturday by in-laws of his daughter, who married a young man through a local court. According to police, Adalat Khan and Attique, brother and brother-in-law of the girl, shot Abdul Latif outside his house in sector G-6-1/3 in the precincts of Aabpara Police Sation.
The girl's husband, Asad, informed police that his father was shot dead by Adalat and Attique. Body of the