February 26, 2009 Thursday
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DHAKA (Bangladesh) - MUTINOUS Bangladeshi border guards who seized control of their headquarters completed their surrender on Thursday after tanks were sent into the capital as a show of force, the government said.
 
India builds aircraft carrier

NEW DELHI - INDIA has started building its own aircraft carrier, the navy announced on Thursday, amid a protracted dispute with Russia over the cost of a Soviet-era carrier.

Wyeth milk powder cleared

BEIJING - CHINESE regulators have determined that baby powder made by US company Wyeth did not contain unsafe levels of the industrial chemical melamine, state media said on Thursday.

Boy arrested over bomb plot

TOKYO - JAPANESE police said on Thursday they had arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of trying to manufacture a bomb to blow up his classmates.

   
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