Archive - Feb 26, 2010

AFP - Thailand was on alert for civil unrest Saturday as loyal fans of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra weighed a court ruling that seized more than half his 2.3-billion-dollar fortune a day earlier.

Source: Reuters MANILA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - About 70 Islamic militants raided a village on a remote southern island in the Philippines on Saturday, killing 11 people, displacing hundreds and torching houses, officials ...

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By Javed Hussain

PARACHINAR, Pakistan, Feb 27 (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed three ...

In the evening of 25 February 2010, in Timbuktu (Mali), a stampede occurred amidst the crowd of the faithful. This crowd was the people, locals and the pilgrims, who assembled to pray around the Djingareyber Mosque at the occasion of the Mawlid festival, to celebrate the birth of the Prophed Muhammad.
This stampede caused 22 deaths and at least 45 persons were injured.
Timbuktu, a city in Mali in the middle of the Sahara Desert, was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988, as being the …

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