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- China says up to 5,000 dead in one quake-hit county
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:40:27
Reuters - A powerful earthquake in southwest China has killed up to 5,000 people and left as many as 10,000 injured, state media said, as hundreds of children remained trapped in at least eight collapsed schools.
- Monsoon hits Bay of Bengal 5 days early
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:10:47
Reuters - India’s monsoon has set in over parts of the Bay of Bengal five days ahead of schedule, the weather office said, but officials said this did not mean the mainland would get rains, key for farming, early.
- Pakistan coalition partner quits cabinet over judges
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:48:08
Reuters - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday his party members would resign their cabinet posts after the failure to break a deadlock with his main coalition partner over the reinstatement of deposed judges.
- Nepal king makes animal sacrifices to power goddess
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:57:21
Reuters - Nepal’s King Gyanendra, facing imminent ouster from the throne, made perhaps his last royal public appearance at a shrine outside Kathmandu on Monday and offered annual prayers to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power.
- Hundreds buried near China quake epicentre - Xinhua
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:57:15
Reuters - Hundreds of people were buried in Shifang in southwest China’s Sichuan province, as several schools, factories and dormitories collapsed when an earthquake hit the area on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said. - China floats inviting Dalai Lama to Olympics: Tibet MP
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:22:07
Reuters - A senior Chinese official has asked whether Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama would agree to attend the Beijing Olympics to ease recent tensions, a Tibet government-in-exile legislator said on Monday.
- Rare Kashmiri deer on verge of extinction - census report
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 08:45:09
Reuters - A rare species of red deer found only in Indian Kashmir is on the verge of extinction, with only 160 animals in existence, a preliminary census by India’s wildlife authorities showed on Monday.
- Indian factory output weakens, tightening pause seen
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:31:57
Reuters - India’s industrial output grew at its weakest rate in six years in March, knocking the rupee to a one-year low and fanning speculation the central bank may hold off with more tightening in its battle with soaring inflation.
- India’s green revolutionary is back in spotlight
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 05:48:46
Reuters - Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution — this time a perpetual one.
- U.S. flies cyclone aid to Myanmar
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:17:42
Reuters - The first U.S. military aid flight landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone.
- Quake topples “80 pct of buildings” in China county
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 13:28:50
Reuters - About 80 percent of the buildings in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County in China’s southwestern Sichuan province collapsed when an earthquake hit the area on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
- Buildings at five schools collapse in China quake - TV
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:27
Reuters - Buildings at five more schools in China’s southwestern Sichuan province collapsed on Monday in a big earthquake, burying unknown numbers of elementary and middle school children, state television said.
- CORRECTED - (OFFICIAL) - U.N. says up to 100,000 dead or missing in Myanmar cyclone
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:56:57
Reuters - (U.N. humanitarian affairs office corrects number of dead and missing from its situation report on the Myanmar cyclone. A U.N. official said its estimate of 220,000 missing was incorrect. The official also corrected the number of assessed townships to 38 from 55)
- China quake kills at least 107, buries 900
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 11:57:00
Reuters - A powerful earthquake in southwest China killed at least 107 people on Monday and buried 900 teenagers in a collapsed school as the tremor caused buildings to fall and left whole areas cut off.
- Bihar villagers cage low-caste farmer in caste war
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:46:51
Reuters - Villagers in Bihar imprisoned a lower-caste man for nearly a week in a dingy room after he refused to work in their farms, and forced his wife and daughter to work instead for his freedom, police said on Monday. - Commonwealth to readmit Pakistan - source
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 12:22:57
Reuters - The Commonwealth is to readmit Pakistan, suspended last year when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule, a source in the 53-nation organisation said on Monday.
- Peace here, Nepal mothers want news of missing sons
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 02:49:55
Reuters - Five years ago on a warm August night loud thuds on the door altered Tirtha Kumari Bhujel’s life forever.
- India prices soar, as do Bharatiya Janata Party spirits
(Reuters)
Sun, 11 May 2008 04:18:52
Reuters - If the state election in Karnataka heralds things to come, then one of the key battlegrounds in the fight to govern India will be the issue that angers Meena Govindaraj, a mango seller.
- China quake kills 5 children, injures over 100
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:29:20
Reuters - Five children were killed and more than 100 injured in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck China’s Sichuan province on Monday, causing buildings to sway and sending residents rushing into the streets.
- Weightlifter Kavita banned for doping
(Reuters)
Mon, 12 May 2008 09:47:59
Reuters - Weightlifter Kavita Devi has been banned for two years after failing a drugs test, India’s weightlifting chief said on Monday.
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