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PANAJI: An Indian man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly raping and murdering a four-year-old girl whose body was thrown from a building in the western holiday state of Goa, police said. A married 22-year-old labourer from eastern Bihar state was held after the body of the girl was found in a pit on a construction site on Tuesday, Police Inspector Santosh Desai told AFP. The child, from Mumbai, was staying at her grandparents' home when she went ...
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MANILA: The Philippines' top judge, who walked out of an appearance at his own impeachment trial, was later rushed to hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack, his spokesman said Wednesday. Chief Justice Renato Corona checked into a hospital Tuesday night after his three-hour appearance before the Senate, during which he denounced the landmark corruption proceedings as a personal vendetta by President Benigno Aquino. "The diagnosis is possible heart attack," Corona's spokesman Midas Marquez said during several ...
SEOUL: North Korea's human rights abuses should be dealt with more urgently than its nuclear or missile programmes, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak said Wednesday. Lee made the comment when he met a group of US lawmakers including Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said presidential spokeswoman Lee Miyon. "As to the North Korean issue, the human rights issue is no less important than nuclear tests or missile launches," the president was ...
TOKYO: The world's tallest tower, the Tokyo Skytree, opened to the public on Tuesday with tens of thousands of visitors flocking to the Japanese capital's newest attraction. Despite rainy weather, residents and tourists gathered around the 634-metre (2,080-foot) tower and its adjacent shopping and amusement complex which also opened on Tuesday. But those hoping for spectacular views from the observation deck 350 metres up were thwarted by the weather. "I have long been looking forward to coming here," ...
BEIJING: Beijing said Tuesday it was investigating the seizure of 28 Chinese fishermen by armed North Koreans, as it gave its clearest indication yet that state forces may have played a role. The men were seized as they fished in waters running between China and North Korea on May 8, and held for 13 days before they were released at the weekend, according to earlier reports. Neither country has identified the abductors, and China has been unusually ...
SEOUL: Seoul is seeking an exemption from a European Union embargo that would effectively halt shipments of Iranian oil to South Korea from July 1, officials said on Tuesday. The EU decided in January to enforce a full embargo on Iranian crude as part of efforts to bring Tehran back to international talks over its suspected nuclear weapons programme. It will also ban European firms from insuring or reinsuring tankers transporting Iranian oil anywhere in the world ...
JAKARTA: Indonesian prosecutors on Monday asked for a life sentence rather than the death penalty for Umar Patek, the bombmaker accused of being behind the Bali attacks that killed 202 people. When the trial started in February prosecutors had said they would seek capital punishment for Patek, who was held last year in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad, four months before Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed there. Prosecutor Bambang Suharyadi told the West Jakarta District ...

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