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Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

December 30, 2011
Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

  A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]

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Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

December 25, 2011
Afghan MP among 19 killed in suicide attack 

  A suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday killing at least 19 people including an MP and wounding dozens of others, officials said. The attacker detonated his vest after mourners gathered for the funeral of a government official in Taluqan city, the capital of Takhar province. "We have 19 dead including [...]

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Will Israel declare war on violent settlers? 

December 17, 2011
Will Israel declare war on violent settlers? 

Members of the "Hilltop Youth" fortify an outpost at Shvut Ami in the West Bank in a file photo taken in 2009. The Israeli Defense Forces are increasingly confronting a truth that many Palestinians learned awhile ago: A not-insignificant number of the Israelis who have settled on the West Bank are unhinged zealots who, in [...]

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Armed men attack Hanoi hotel guests 

November 23, 2011

  Around 20 young men brought swords and home-made guns to attack guests at a Hanoi hotel early Tuesday.   The men broke into Bach Duong hotel at 1:30 a.m. They went straight into a room, shooting the ceiling and beating the guests there.   Police said the room had been rented by Nguyen Viet Dung [...]

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Mexico offers reward for casino killers 

August 27, 2011
Mexico offers reward for casino killers 

An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 52 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said Thursday. Mexico offered a reward of $2.4 million for information leading to the arrest of armed men who torched a casino, leaving [...]

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Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor 

July 27, 2011
Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor 

File photo of an Afghan wheeling his bicycle across a street in Kandahar City. The mayor of Kandahar, the biggest city in southern Afghanistan and the birthplace of the Taliban movement, was killed in a suicide attack on Wednesday, police said. The death comes two weeks after the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the so-called [...]

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Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

June 21, 2011
Fresh Libya civilian deaths pile pressure on NATO 

A Royal Air Force Tornado aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk. The Libyan government said on Monday 19 civilians were killed in a NATO air strike on the home of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s top officials, a day after NATO admitted killing civilians in a separate aerial attack. Libyan officials took reporters to [...]

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Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites 

June 19, 2011
Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites 

A popular forum for Vietnamese white-hat hackers at www.hvaonline.net has also fallen prey to black-hat hackers. Foreign hackers have attacked an estimated 1,500 Vietnamese websites, including the online forum for white-hat hackers, since early this month. The list of hacked websites ranges from government sites to sites dealing with real estate and electronics. In the latest [...]

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Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

June 14, 2011
Vietnam to tighten digital information security after cyber attacks 

  The Vietnamese prime minister Friday asked all government agencies and local authorities to strengthen measures to protect digital information.   The order followed reports that hundreds of Vietnam websites, including the portals of many government agencies, have been hacked recently.   PM Nguyen Tan Dung required the agencies and local authorities to apply measures that [...]

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Vietnamese fishermen return home after pirate attack 

May 27, 2011
Vietnamese fishermen return home after pirate attack 

The Vietnamese fishing boat that was attacked by an unidentified vessel while travelling through the border waters between the Philippines and Malaysia, on May 15. The fourteen Vietnamese fishermen that came under attack from pirates in the border waters between the Philippines and Malaysia returned home to the central province of Quang Ngai, on Tuesday. Two of the men were still nursing injuries they [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...