
At least 60 people have been killed in a suspected US air raid in northern Afghanistan, government sources say.
Two petrol lorries were hit by the air attack in Kunduz province, Al Jazeera learnt on Friday.
James Bays, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Kabul, said members of the Taliban reportedly hijacked the lorries, travelling from Tajikistan and took them to the [...]
September 3, 2009 | Posted in
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URUMQI, China (Reuters) – A crowd confronted anti-riot police in China’s western city of Urumqi on Friday, when hundreds of Han Chinese tried to push past security barriers into an ethnic Uighur neighborhood.
The confrontation came a day after thousands of Han Chinese took to the streets in Urumqi, regional capital of Xinjiang province, protesting [...]
September 3, 2009 | Posted in
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MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press Writer
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) ― About half of students enrolled in the Wyoming Virtual School who took the statewide assessment this year scored much worse than students in traditional schools around the state.
As for the other half, no one knows.
District-by-district and school-by-school results from this year’s Proficiency Assessments for Wyoming [...]
September 2, 2009 | Posted in
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