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India seeks to repair reputation as drug exporter

Ut World May 7, 2014 0

India is launching a campaign to repair its reputation as a global supplier of cheap high-quality drugs, responding to bans imposed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on several suppliers, two top officials said on Tuesday. As part of the charm offensive, New Delhi has invited global Continue Reading

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Owner of art looted by Nazis dies

Ut World May 7, 2014 0

The elderly German recluse whose Munich apartment contained a secret art hoard, including masterpieces looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners in World War Two, has died after a heart operation, his spokesman said. Authorities stumbled upon Cornelius Gurlitt’s trove of paintings and drawings by the likes of Marc Chagall, Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso in […]Continue Reading

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Affleck banned from casino for being too good at blackjack

Ut World May 5, 2014 0

Actor Ben Affleck was banned from playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino because he was “too good,” a source close to the Oscar-winner said on Friday. Affleck, 41, was stopped earlier this week by security guards at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas while playing blackjack because “you are too good,” the source […]Continue Reading

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Landslide causes numerous deaths in Afghanistan

Ut World May 5, 2014 0

Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 2,000 are missing after a landslide smashed into a village in a mountainous area of north Afghanistan on Friday, and rescue teams were struggling to reach the remote area. Villagers dug with their bare hands to try to find survivors under the mountain of mud, but […]Continue Reading

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Bomb explosion kills 15 in Nigeria

Ut World May 2, 2014 0

A suspected car bomb exploded on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Thursday, killing at least 15 people a week before the city was to host a conference of leaders and business executives focused on Africa’s growth prospects, witnesses said. The explosion hit the suburb of Nyanya, close to the site of a morning […]Continue Reading

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Settlers killed in attack in Assam

Ut World May 2, 2014 0

Suspected tribal rebels shot dead 11 Muslim settlers, including two women, in attacks in tea-growing Assam where tension is running high during an election, officials said on Friday. Police said they suspected the militants behind the overnight killings were members of the Bodo tribe. Bodo people have frequently clashed with Muslims they say have illegally […]Continue Reading

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Bad Bank Portfolio

Ut World April 30, 2014 0

British bank Barclays Plc will next week announce the creation of a bad bank portfolio of assets it deems non-core that it intends to sell or run down as part of a streamlining of its investment bank, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Last year, Barclays Chief Executive Antony Jenkins announced a […]Continue Reading

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Fire drills conducted near border with South Korea

Ut World April 29, 2014 0

North Korea conducted live fire drills on Tuesday in two areas near a disputed sea border with South Korea that have been the scene of deadly clashes and where they fired hundreds of artillery rounds only weeks ago. North Korea conducted similar drills in late March, firing more than 500 artillery rounds near the Northern […]Continue Reading

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Third term as Iraqi PM

Ut World April 29, 2014 0

A casual wave to fellow diners in a Baghdad restaurant in 2008 sealed Nouri al-Maliki’s reputation as the man who restored a degree of normality to a city that civil war had nearly destroyed.Now he has gone out again among the people, strolling around the city to prove he is still attuned to their problems […]Continue Reading

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Hijack scare in Australian plane

Ut World April 28, 2014 0

 Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, police said. Matt Lockley told Bali police after his arrest that he banged on what he thought was the toilet door for a last-minute bathroom break before the Boeing 737-800 aircraft landed. The door was actually the cockpit door and the pilot, Neil Thomas Cooper, responded by […]Continue Reading