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A court in Qatar reduces the sentences of eight retired Indian Navy officers who had been sentenced to death for spying.
2023-12-28

U.S. officials believe the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has declared a state of emergency in its self-declared capital, Al-Raqqah.
2016-05-14

Two people are killed and five are wounded in a shooting outside a taco restaurant in Salinas, California, U.S. It is believed to be gang-related.
2013-08-5

An Indian juvenile court is due to deliver its verdict on a seventeen-year-old boy accused of participating in the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in the New Delhi suburb of Munirka.
2013-07-11

U.S. President Barack Obama visits the city of Boston in the wake of the recent marathon attack.
2013-04-18

Five U.S. service members are killed after a helicopter crash during a rainstorm in Daman district of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
2013-03-11

AIG, the insurance giant that has recently paid the U.S. treasury back funds it received on "too big to fail" grounds in 2008, says that it may join a lawsuit against the U.S. for the supposedly harsh nature of the bailout terms.
2013-01-8

At least 13 people, including ten Indians, are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.
2012-09-17

A U.S. plan to force gun dealers in states which border Mexico to report cases where individuals bought multiple high-powered rifles in under 5 days, is stalled due to opposition from gun lobbies. Approximately 90% of crime guns seized in Mexico originate in the U.S., and over 30,000 people have died in Mexico due to drug cartel violence since 2006.
2011-01-6

The crippled Carnival Cruise liner "Carnival Splendor" is towed to port in San Diego, California.
2010-11-11