Oil prices, global economic worries hit Asia
Asian stocks fell on Monday as a rebound in oil
prices to above $126 revived inflation concerns at a time of growing
signs that a downturn in the U.S. economy is spreading worldwide.
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India orders probe into deadly temple stampede
Indian authorities on Monday ordered a probe
into possible organisational lapses that led to a stampede outside a
mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, killing at least 145
pilgrims.
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Gorbachev honours Solzhenitsyn’s ‘unique destiny’
The last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev paid
tribute yesterday to the “unique destiny” of late Russian writer and
dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Interfax news agency reported.
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