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BANGKOK – Core leader of the opposition red-shirt movement which is staging a mass rally in Bangkok said Monday that one million CC blood of the protesters will be sprinkled around the Government House on Tuesday after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva refused to give in to protesters’ demand. Bangkok Post online quoted Nattawut Saikua as [...]

WASHINGTON – A Defense Department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a US official said Monday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the case, told The Associated Press that Michael D. Furlong directed a defense contract to gather [...]

NEW DELHI – India and Russia Friday inked 19 deals, including a US$2.34 billion agreement on the purchase of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov and a US$1.5 billion deal on the supplies of 29 more MiG29K carrier-based fighter jets to the Indian Navy. Meanwhile, two nuclear pacts under the civil nuclear cooperation and a pact on [...]

UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is to pay a one-day visit to quake-hit Haiti this weekend, said a UN spokesperson Friday. “The secretary-general will be traveling to Haiti this Sunday for a one-day visit, to assess the conditions on the ground,” Martin Nesirky told reporters. “This will be the secretary-general ‘s second visit [...]

OSLO, Norway – Two years after receiving its first deposits, a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island has amassed half a million seed samples, making it the world’s most diverse repository of crop seeds, the vault’s operators announced Thursday. Cary Fowler — who heads the trust that oversees the seed collection, which is 620 [...]