As reported by Reuters.com, a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia, most of them from the Middle East, has sunk off the Indonesian coast killing at least 21 people, Indonesian television reported on Friday. Metro TV said 25 people survived. Officials were not immediately available for comment. The politically charged issue of asylum seekers has become a sore point in relations between Australia and Indonesia. The latest accident, the second in recent months, comes ahead of Monday’s official visit to Indonesia by new Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Read article
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Al Jazeera reports that unidentified gunmen have shot dead an Indian author in the eastern Afghan province of Paktika, police say. Sushmita Banerjee, the writer of a popular book about her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the 1990s, was shot dead on Wednesday night, police announced on Thursday. “We found her bullet-riddled body near […]
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As reported by Foxnews.com, a cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter were killed during violence in Egypt Wednesday, their employers said. Sky said Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries […]
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As reported by Straitstimes.com, a young Irish teacher was found dead in her apartment in Queenstown on Wednesday night. The police received a call at 10.59pm that night requesting assistance at a residential unit along Stirling Road, said a spokesman. Read article
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Thestar.com.my reports that a foreign worker was killed after being hit by a car while crossing the road here. The 50-year-old victim from China started his job at a furniture shop near Kota Sentosa three months ago. According to his employer, the deceased had gone out with two co-workers for dinner at a coffeeshop on […]
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According to todayszaman.com, a state security institution from Russia announced that they are investigating the shooting of Mustafa Ülker, a Turkish shepherd who was shot dead on the Armenian border near Turkey’s Kars province. According to reports, the 35-year-old Turkish shepherd had crossed to the Armenian side of the border to retrieve a lost sheep […]
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According to bernama.com, a Malaysian private student was killed and his elder brother injured in a road accident in Jordan yesterday, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said Thursday. He said Nik Mohd Ariff Suparjo, 19, who was pursuing a short-term Arabic language course in Amman, died after the vehicle he was travelling in skidded […]
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Foxsports.com reports that race organizers say an Italian rider has died in a crash at the World Supersport race. Kawasaki Go Eleven rider Andrea Antonelli died Sunday after losing control of his Kawasaki ZX-6R bike in rainy weather and crashing during the opening lap, said Tatiana Makhina, a spokeswoman for the Moscow Raceway organizers. Read […]
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According to thejakartaglobe.com, an Indonesian woman died and seven people remain missing after a wooden boat believed to be smuggling them out of Malaysia to return home for the end of Ramadan overturned, authorities said Friday. Twenty-seven people have been saved after the boat heading to Indonesia’s Batam island capsized early Thursday off southern Johor […]
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The Washington Post reports that the Lebanese army says the killing of a Syrian journalist who often spoke out stridently in favor of President Bashar Assad was not politically motivated. Lebanon’s leading LBC TV said Mohammed Darrar Jammo was killed by relatives of his wife. Syria’s civil war has set off political and sectarian tensions […]
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