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Human bomb kills 31 in Iraq
BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 31 people in the capital’s deadliest day in a month, amid a political crisis that has stoked tensions. The attack also left 60 people wounded. The 11:00 am attack struck outside Zafraniyah hospital in east Baghdad as a funeral procession was transporting the bodies of a family who had been killed in the capital on Thursday....
 
 
 
Syria issue in UN as China, Russia oppose action
DAMASCUS: The UN Security Council has taken up the Syria crisis on Friday. Western and Arab nations will hold talks on a draft resolution denouncing the Bashar Al Assad regime that has been blocked by Damascus’s allies Beijing and Moscow. The head of the Arab League monitoring mission in Syria said the unrest had soared “in a significant way,” especially in the flashpoint central cities of Homs and Hama and in the northern...
   
Pak military academy attacked by nine rockets
ABBOTTABAD: Attackers on Friday fired nine rockets at Pakistan’s top military academy, damaging its outer wall in a major security breach near the home where Osama Bin Laden lived for years, officials said. No one was hurt in the pre-dawn attack and it was unclear who fired the nine rockets from behind a mosque in the mountains overlooking the Kakul Academy. Officials blamed terrorists for the attack, which came one day...
 
 
Musharraf not to return home now
DUBAI: Pakistan’s former president Pervez Musharraf has postponed his return home as advised by the core committee of his party citing the current political situation there. This was announced at a press conference in Dubai on Friday by Mohammed Ali Saif, who is the secretary-general of Musharraf’s All-Pakistan Muslim League Party. Musharraf had earlier announced that he would return to Pakistan around Jan.29, 2012....
   
Toddler chews off snake’s head
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child’s family told reporters on Friday. Thirteen-month-old Imad Aleeyan, who has six teeth, was found chewing on the head of the 30-centimetre snake by his mother, who alerted the neighbourhood with her screams. “I was making his milk and I looked over and saw...
 
 

 
 
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