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ODHPUR: At least 113 people have been killed and several injured in a stampede at Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, according to a senior Rajasthan government official.
There are reports that there is acute shortage of oxygen in hospitals.
IG Police has confirmed 78 deaths and said the toll is feared to increase.
According to [...]

Prime Minister Taro Aso kicked off an extraordinary Diet session Monday with a policy speech in which he challenged the Democratic Party of Japan to a political debate, consciously highlighting the ruling camp’s rivalry with the largest opposition force.
During the speech to both the Lower and Upper Houses, Aso slammed the largest opposition party, saying [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The prized Neuberger Berman asset management business of bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc (LEHMQ.PK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) is being sold to private equity firms Bain Capital LLC and Hellman & Friedman LLC for $2.15 billion — a lot less than original estimates.
The deal includes Lehman’s Asset Management unit and [...]

The local currency threatened to breach the level of 1,200 won per U.S. dollar yesterday, as the credit panic drove up global demand for the dollar, despite agreement on the $700 billion rescue plan, analysts said.
The won plunged to 1,200 won during intra-day trading but slightly rose to close at 1,188.8 won, down 28.3 won [...]

PERTH (Reuters) – Oil extended losses below $96 a barrel on Tuesday, after slumping almost 10 percent in the previous session, as fear gripped financial markets in the wake of U.S. lawmakers’ shock rejection of a $700 billion rescue plan.
Asian stocks opened sharply lower after Wall Street’s biggest fall since the crash of 1987, and [...]

CAIRO (Reuters) – Eleven European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in a remote desert corner of Egypt have been freed unharmed and half of their kidnappers have been killed, Egyptian officials said on Monday.
The freed hostages arrived in Cairo aboard an Egyptian military plane. They descended the aircraft smiling, some holding bouquets of flowers, to [...]

Opposition candidates in Belarus have failed to win any seats in parliamentary elections, with just 10 more results to be declared, according to election officials.
The election commission said on Monday that allies of Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarussian president, had won all 100 seat in which counting had been completed.
“There is no opponent among [...]

Austria’s Social Democrats won the most votes in the country’s early election but far-right parties made significant gains, the interior ministry has said.
Preliminary official results from Sunday’s poll show Social Democrats with 29.7% of the vote.
But the country’s two far-right parties made large gains, winning a total vote share of 29% between them.
The BBC’s Bethany [...]

t least six people have been killed and about 30 injured after a car bomb exploded in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
The blast on Monday targeted a bus carrying troops in northern Lebanon, the Associated Press quoted Lebanese security officials as saying.
“We have at least six people killed, three of them soldiers,” an official [...]

AHMEDABAD: Seventeen crude bombs were found on Monday near the Kalupur Darvaza of the city, police said.
The bombs found were not sophisticated devices but crude explosives, police said.
Further investigations are on, police said.
The bombs were found a day before the nine-day Navratri celebrations begins, police said.
Officials said the bombs were found in [...]