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Armstrong admits doping: ‘I’m a flawed character’

CHICAGO (AP) — He did it. He finally admitted it. Lance Armstrong doped. He was light on the details and didn’t name names. He mused that

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Snow forces 3,400 to spend night at Tokyo airport

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s Narita International Airport operator says 3,400 travelers spent the night in the terminal after snow caused airlines to cancel 71 flights. In the season’s first snowfall

Judge sends India rape case to fast-track court

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian magistrate on Thursday ordered the trial of five men accused in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a moving bus to

India, Pakistan agree to ease tensions in Kashmir

NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Pakistan agreed on Wednesday to ease tensions in disputed Kashmir by strictly observing a decade-old cease-fire after five soldiers were killed in recent clashes,

Massacre of over 100 reported in Syria’s Homs

BEIRUT (Reuters) – More than 100 people were shot, stabbed or possibly burned to death by government forces in the Syrian city of Homs, a monitoring group said on Thursday,

Algerian forces launch operation to break desert siege

ALGIERS (Reuters) – Twenty-five foreign hostages escaped and six were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces launched an operation to free them at a remote desert gas plant, Algerian sources

Prachanda continues rhetorics, calls cadres to back leadership

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s most influential leftist leader and Chairman of UCPN Maoist, Puspa Kamal Dahal on Thursday, asked his party cadres to gear up for supporting him against party’s fight with

Nepal court hand journalist murderers to 12-day judicial custody

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Dailekh district court has given a 12 day judicial custody to prime accused of journalist Dekendra Thapa’s murder. Responding to case filed by the district attorney on Thursday,

NC sister wings turn heat on streets against BRB government

KATHMANDU: Various organizations assocaited to the Nepali Congress have staged demonstration on Thursday, demanding the guarantee of rule of law and citizen’s right to life with dignity. The protest rally

Nepal Bar Association elects Karki as its President

KATHMANDU: Hari Kirshna Karki has been elected as the new President of Nepal Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday. Karki, a candidate from the Progressive Republican group, presided the hot seat