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AP - The State Department says "Americans are still at risk on the ground" in the Mumbai terror attacks.
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AP - Security forces assaulted a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were believed holed up with possible hostages Friday, with black-clad commandos dropping from a Indian helicopter as sharpshooters opened fire on the five-story building.
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Riot police fled a checkpoint near Bangkok's international airport Saturday after coming under attack by several hundred anti-government protesters who have been occupying the main terminal.
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Police says 24 more bodies have been found in the series of attacks that have ripped through Mumbai over the past two days. The new figure brings the death toll in India's commercial and entertainment capital to at least 143.
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Police in Thailand ordered protesters to leave Bangkok's two airports yesterday, and allow more than 160,000 stranded travellers to fly home.But the authorities showed little sign that they were about to move in forcefully to take control of the airports, which have been closed for six...(more)
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AP - The Islamic militant group Hamas on Saturday claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on an Israeli army base that injured eight Israeli soldiers.
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The gunmen, most of them apparently in their twenties, wearing T-shirts, black shirts and jeans, came ashore in black and yellow inflatable rubber dinghies. Armed with automatic weapons, and carrying rucksacks packed with hand grenades and explosives, they abandoned their landing-craft on the beach, from where...(more)
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BANGKOK, Nov. 27 -- The government of Thailand has declared a state of emergency in the areas immediately surrounding two key airports in Bangkok, clearing the way for security forces to move in and eject thousands of anti-government protesters who took over the facilities earlier...(more)
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AFP - Up to 100 people have been killed in a series of coordinated attacks across India's commercial capital Mumbai, as gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades hit two luxury hotels and took foreign guests hostage.
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Indian Americans have watched the Asian nation's growing prosperity and economic strength carry their homeland toward a place among the world's most powerful industrialized nations. But Wednesday's brazen assault on luxury hotels and other sites in India's financial capital dealt a horrifying blow to the...(more)
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Fifteen Air France workers remained among a number of guests and workers trapped inside a luxury hotel in Mumbai last night after commandos freed hostages elsewhere in the city. An official at the French consulate said a flight crew was in the Oberoi Trident hotel, which...(more)
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AFP - One British national was among those killed in the coordinated attacks in Mumbai which left more than 100 people dead, the Foreign Office said Thursday.
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