41 dead in Pak backlash, peace pact scrapped 41 people, most of them security personnel, were killed in Pakistan on Sunday as the countrys volatile tribal areas turned into virtual battle zones following three separate suicide attacks.
Laden aide behind Lal Masjid Ayman al-Zawahari, al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladens deputy, secretly directed the Islamic militants whose armed revolt at the Red Mosque in Islamabad ended last week with a bloodbath after the Pakistan army stormed it, a media report said on Sunday.
This is just a first step, says Washington
N Korea reactor shut North Korea confirmed it has shut its nuclear reactor that provides the secretive state with material to make weapons-grade plutonium, Chinas Xinhua news agency quoted a North Korean official as saying on Sunday.
Iraqi PM sure of his forces securing the country Maliki has been under attack by American officials and many Iraqi politicians for leading a government mired in disputes and unable to make progress on legislations seen as crucial to stabilising the country.
$660 MN TO 500 VICTIMS
LA Catholic Church in record abuse deal The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $660 million to 500 victims of sexual abuse dating back as far as the 1940s in the largest compensation deal of its kind, the plaintiffs lawyers said on Saturday.
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