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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 |
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Doubts grow about Noordin Top’s death
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JAKARTA: Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top is probably
still at large in Indonesia despite reports of his death, police
said Monday, even as the net closed around his extremist network.
Fingerprint analysis confirmed that a man killed
by police special forces in a raid on a suspected Noordin hideout on
the weekend was not the Malaysian Islamist, a police source involved
in the investigation said.
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28 dead in Taiwan flooding
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TAIPEI: At least 28 people were confirmed dead and 52 others were
missing in Taiwan on Monday after Typhoon Morakot caused the
island’s worst flooding in half a century, the rescue services
said.
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Beijing appoints Macau’s new leader
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BEIJING: China formally appointed Fernando Chui as the new chief
executive of Macau following his unopposed election last month by
the gambling hub’s mainly pro-Beijing electoral committee on
Monday.
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China quake destroys170 houses
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BEIJING: More than 170 houses destroyed and two people were killed
in an earthquake which hit southwest China at the weekend, reported
Monday.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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KHAZNAH, Iraq: At least 42 people were killed and more than 230
wounded in a spate of bloody bomb attacks near the restive northern
Iraqi city of Mosul and in the capital Baghdad on Monday.
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