Children lay down the law for cheaters on exam for police promotions in northwestern China

October 15th, 2009 Major attacks in Pakistan so far in OctoberA look at the major attacks in Pakistan in the past two weeks: — Oct. 15, 2009: Teams of gunmen attack three security facilities in the eastern city of Lahore, leaving at 27 people dead including several militants, while a suicide car bombing at a police station kills 11 people in northwestern Kohat district and another bomb kills a 6-year-old boy in Peshawar in the northwest.

October 15th, 2009 Bomb hits near school in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani police say a bomb has exploded near a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, injuring five people. Peshawar police chief Ijaz Khan says the car bomb went off outside a home near a school Thursday evening in the city's Gulshan Rehman area.

September 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI — Hundreds of students jammed into a narrow school staircase panicked and set off a stampede Thursday that left five girls dead and 31 other students injured, a New Delhi hospital official said. Five of the injured were in critical condition, said O.P.

September 2nd, 2009 China detains 15 parents for lead poison unrestBEIJING — Police in central China detained 15 parents for a violent protest over factory pollution that left hundreds of local children with lead poisoning, and accused them of links to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, villagers said Wednesday. Villagers mocked the accusation, saying authorities were using the charge to take revenge against parents involved in the Aug.

August 31st, 2009 XINING - An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale Monday jolted the Qinghai province in northwestern China, officials said. The quake occurred at 6.15 p.m.

August 23rd, 2009 Suicide bomb in Pakistani city of Peshawar kills 3PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Authorities say a suicide bombing on the outskirts in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed three people and wounded 15 others. Peshawar police Chief Safwat Ghayur says the suicide bomber also died in Sunday's attack.

August 17th, 2009 Pakistan: Suicide bombing kills at least 6 in NWPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attacker detonated a truck bomb Monday at a fuel station in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six people, police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility, but the area lies next to the tribal regions dominated by the Pakistani Taliban, who have vowed revenge following the reported death of top leader Baitullah Mehsud.

August 14th, 2009 Lead poisoning sickens 600 kids in ChinaBEIJING — More than 600 children have been sickened with lead poisoning in a northern Chinese province where authorities shut a smelter earlier this week thought to have caused the contamination, state media reported. More than 80 percent of the 731 children living in the two villages near the Dongling Lead and Zinc Smelting Co.

August 11th, 2009 BEIJING - China will ban tobacco advertisements and promotion activities starting from January, 2011. Beijing News and the China Daily quoted Xu Guihua, vice chairmen of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control, as saying that the cost of advertisements and promotions will also no longer be able to be deducted from business income taxes of tobacco companies, the Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation announced Monday.

August 3rd, 2009 URUMQI - Police in China's northwestern Xinjiang province have detained 319 more people in connection with the July 5 riots in this provincial capital. The arrests were made after the police said to have detained 1,572 people in connection with the clashes in which 197 people were killed and hundreds were injured.

June 29th, 2009 Court rules for white firefighters over promotionsWASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge. New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be made lieutenants or captains based on the results, the court said Monday in a 5-4 decision.

June 7th, 2009 Taliban attacks kill 9 in AfghanistanKABUL — A Taliban ambush in northwestern Afghanistan killed four policemen early Sunday, while militants killed five other people at the eastern border near Pakistan, officials said. Militants attacked a police security post in northwestern Faryab province, sparking a one-hour battle that killed four police, said Khalil Andrabi, the provincial police chief.

May 5th, 2009 Police say car bomber kills 4 troops in PakistanPESHAWAR — A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle carrying paramilitary forces in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least four troops and wounding several people, including schoolchildren, police said. The attack happened near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of the volative North West Frontier Province, where the military last week launched an offensive against Taliban militants to halt their push toward the capital, Islamabad.

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April 2nd, 2009 URUMQI - A bomb blast in an office building Thursday left one dead and two injured in Urumqi in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the police said. A man detonated the explosives at 2.10 p.m., killing himself, the police said.