Asian markets lower ahead of US jobs report

BANGKOK: Asian stocks were mostly lower Friday as markets braced for U.

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Bangladesh fire kills up to 108

DHAKA: A huge fire raced through several apartment buildings and devastated a rooftop wedding party in the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 108 people and injuring more than 100 others, officials and local media said Friday.

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Bangladesh fire kills 50, injures dozens

DHAKA: A devastating fire raced through an apartment complex in the Bangladeshi capital Thursday, killing as many as 50 people and injuring dozens, officials and local media reported.

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Messi says no pressure to take Argentina to World Cup glory

BUENOS AIRES: Ace Argentinean striker Lionel Messi has said that he feels under no pressure to take Argentina to World Cup glory.

The Barcelona striker is tipped to be World Player of the Year and is Diego Maradona”s best hope of winning in South Africa.

“I don”t feel pressure playing in the Argentina shirt. In Spain, I”m also in a team that has to win everything,” local media quoted him as saying.

“The World Cup is a nice -opportunity to show I can do the same things in the national team as for Barcelona,” Messi added.

Five would-be suicide bombers killed in Afghanistan

KABUL: Afghan officials say police have killed several would-be suicide bombers in western Afghanistan.

Zemeri Bashary, spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, says police killed five bombers Wednesday before they could carry out an attack in Nimroz province.

The deputy police chief there, Musa Rasooli, said militants were targeting the provincial governor”s compound.Nimroz province is in extreme southwestern Afghanistan along the Iranian border.

Thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops conducted an offensive earlier this year to rout the Taliban from neighboring Helmand province.

Landslides kills 15 near China-Myanmar border

BEIJING: A state news agency says that the death toll from a landslide that occurred earlier this week at a mine near the China-Myanmar border has risen to 15 people.

The official news agency said Wednesday that 15 Chinese nationals were killed by the landslide about 2 miles (about 3kilometers) over the border inside Myanmar and that five people remained hospitalized in stable condition.

It said more than 140 rescue workers were sent from China to the scene after landslide occurred Monday.

South Africa bus crash kills 23 including children

JOHANNESBURG: A South African official says 23 people have died after a bus headed to Cape Town overturned on a highway.

Department of Community Safety spokesman Xenophone Wentzel told the local media that four children were among the victims. The driver of the bus was seriously injured but survived the early Wednesday crash.

Wentzel says the bus involved was not roadworthy and had been suspended by the Eastern Cape traffic department.

News Digest Of Local Media -Stocks Bullish

TrendPK.com News Digest Of Local Media -Stocks Bullish:The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) Bade farewell to a turbulent 2009 in an upbeat mood, with its weighted index closing at the year’s highest level of 8,188.11 points.
Although the global financial downturn hit hard in 2009, the local Bourse has rallied substantially since hitting the [...]

Protest against custodial killing of civilian in occupied Kashmir

SRINAGAR: People staged a protest demonstration against custodial killing of a civilian by Indian police in the occupied Kashmir.

According to local media, Manzoor Ahmed, 30, was subjected to brutal torture by Indian police in the custody of Special Operation Group.

As a result, hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the extrajudicial killing. The demonstrators pelted stones on the police too.

On the other hand, Indian police personnel subjected demonstrators to heavy lathi charge and excessive tear-gassing.

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Protest against custodial killing of civilian in occupied Kashmir was first posted on May 19, 2009 at 10:15 pm.