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| Alert Name: Pakistan News Pakistan launches ground offensive against militants 10/17/09 03:56 AM, EDT The Pakistani army launched a major ground offensive against militants Saturday in the country's lawless northwest, according to military and government officials. FULL STORY You have agreed to receive this email from CNN.com as a result of your CNN.com preference settings. To manage your settings click here. To alter your alert criteria or frequency or to unsubscribe from receiving custom email alerts, click here. Cable News Network. One CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 © 2009 Cable News Network. A Time Warner Company All Rights Reserved. View our privacy policy and terms. | |
Saturday, October 17, 2009
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| Saturday, 17 October, 2009, 8:00 GMT 13:00 +05:00:Asia/Karachi |
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 | Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. |
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| HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. | |
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| Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. | |
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| Appeal over torture claim ruling The government will appeal against a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
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| 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Lawyers for oil trading firm Trafigura end attempts to keep secret a report about toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast. | |
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| WORLD | |
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| Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. |
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| North Korean diplomat to visit US A senior North Korean diplomat is to be allowed a rare visit to the US later this month, officials say, with "informal" meetings planned. | |
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| Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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 | Opel's German aid may break rules Brussels warns Germany's planned state aid for Opel may breach competition rules, raising the prospect of its sale being halted. |
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| Bosnian Serb jailed for genocide A former Bosnian Serb army officer is jailed for genocide over the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995. | |
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| Spain set for anti-abortion rally Thousands of people are expected to rally in Madrid against plans to liberalise Spain's abortion laws. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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 | UN backs Gaza 'war crimes' report The UN Human Rights Council backs a report into Israel's Gaza offensive accusing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. |
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| Iraq sends back UK asylum flight Iraqi asylum seekers returned to Baghdad by the UK government are refused re-entry to their homeland, and flown back to Britain. | |
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| Court claim over camel 'beauty' A Saudi camel owner sues oil giant Saudi Aramco for $250,000 after a prized beast falls into a hole in the desert. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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| Pakistan forces move on Taliban The Pakistan army is reported to have started its long-awaited ground attack on Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan. |
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| Maldives cabinet makes a splash Maldives government ministers hold an underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the effects of global warming. | |
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| Indian fireworks blaze 'kills 30' At least 30 people have been killed and 10 injured in a fire at a fireworks warehouse in southern India, reports say. | |
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| UK | |
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 | HMRC investigates taxes of 27 MPs The tax affairs of 27 MPs are being investigated by HM Revenue and Customs, the department confirms. |
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| Appeal over torture claim ruling The government will appeal against a court ruling that US documents detailing the alleged torture of an ex-UK resident can be released. | |
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| 'Toxic waste' report gag lifted Lawyers for oil trading firm Trafigura end attempts to keep secret a report about toxic waste dumping in the Ivory Coast. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Fans to gather for Gately funeral Celebrities and fans are due to pay their respects at the funeral of former Boyzone star Stephen Gately. |
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| Police target hip-hop nightclubs Hip-hop nightclubs in London will face police scrutiny after a rethink of a strategy to prevent crime and violence at music events. | |
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| Sugababes' Amelle 'in a clinic' Sugababes singer Amelle Berrabah is admitted to a private health clinic suffering "from a severe bout of nervous exhaustion". | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | LHC gets colder than deep space The Large Hadron Collider experiment has reached its operating temperature, colder even than deep space. |
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| Hare coursers 'flout Hunting Act' A BBC investigation suggests illegal hare coursing is on the rise despite its ban under the 2004 Hunting Act. | |
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| Bad memories written with lasers Scientists use lasers to write bad memories onto the brains of flies, revealing some of the brain circuitry responsible for learning. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Laptop for every pupil in Uruguay Uruguay has given 362,000 primary children laptops which run on a Linux desktop. |
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| ISP in file-sharing wi-fi theft TalkTalk has been an outspoken critic of UK government piracy plans and now it sets out to prove why. | |
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| Confused message on UK broadband As Finland makes broadband 'a legal right' the UK government appears to toughen up its broadband plans. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Warning over fibroids treatment UK doctors are warning that one of the newer treatments for heavy periods caused by fibroids can seriously harm any subsequent pregnancy. |
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| 'No post-jab paracetamol' advice Routinely giving paracetamol to babies after vaccinations may lower the effectiveness of the immunisation, research suggests. | |
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| Foetal kick charts 'inaccurate' Foetal kick charts, used to check a pregnancy's healthy progress, are inaccurate and should not be used, Irish researchers say. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | Delay formal lessons 'to age six' A major review of primary education calls for children's formal learning to be delayed until they reach the age of six. |
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| Open-plan school hearing problems The acoustics of new schools will have to be improved after warnings open-plan designs make hearing difficult. | |
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| Fewer than half get GCSE minimum Just under half of teenagers who took GCSEs this summer in England got five "good passes" including maths and English. | |
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| 1989: Earthquake hits San Francisco A powerful earthquake rocks San Francisco killing nine people and injuring hundreds. | |||
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| 2000: Four dead in Hatfield rail crash Four people are killed when a high speed passenger train derails in Hatfield, just north of London. | |||
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| 1980: Pope welcomes Queen to the Vatican The Queen makes the first state visit to the Vatican by a British monarch and is received by the Pope. | |||
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