Pakistan blasts kill 125
A string of bombings in Pakistan including a twin
suicide attack on a snooker hall used by Shiite Muslims has left 125
people dead, in one of the nation’s deadliest days in years. At
least 82 people were killed and 121 wounded Thursday when two
suicide bombers blew themselves up at the crowded snooker club in an
area of the southwestern city of Quetta dominated by the Shiite
community,
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Venezuelans swear ‘absolute loyalty’ to Chavez
VENEZUELA: Thousands of Venezuelans fervently
swore “absolute loyalty” to Hugo Chavez Thursday in a giant rally
for the cancer-stricken President on what was to have been his
inauguration.
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Storm havoc in Mideast
LEBANON: The worst storms in a decade left
swathes of Israel and Jordan under a blanket of snow and parts of
Lebanon blacked out on Thursday, bringing misery to a region
accustomed to temperate climates. Freezing temperatures and floods
since Sunday,
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