Maldives President unharmed in knife attack
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A young man lunged at Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with a kitchen knife on Tuesday in what his spokesman called an assassination attempt, but he was unharmed.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unhurt from a mortar attack on his official residence in the capital on Saturday, hours after returning to Mogadishu from an overseas trip, one of his aides said.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's brother, who is also the island's defense secretary, narrowly escaped a suspected suicide bomb attack in the capital on Friday, officials said.
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Pakistan president denies lapse in security led to assassination and implies Bhutto partly at fault
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The Al-Mansoorian on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the &#39;suicide attack&#39; on a cafeteria at Sulaman shopping complex in Dal Gate area of Srinagar, very close to where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to address a public meeting later in
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An Indonesian Muslim militant who was serving 20 years for the bombing of a Sulawesi karaoke bar has escaped from jail, a prison official said on Monday.
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Afghan warlord Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum escaped unhurt today from a suicide bomb attack which injured more than 20 people gathered for prayers in his northern home town of Sheberghan.
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A suicide bomber in a car rigged with explosives blew himself up near the home of Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, injuring several people, witnesses said.
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KARACHI, Pakistan  - An Islamic militant detained  for an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf a  year ago escaped military custody while in a bathroom to wash  before early morning prayers, Pakistani security sources said  Tuesday.
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A curfew in the capital of the Maldives was eased but parliament sessions were put off indefinitely and emergency rule continued following last week's riots, officials and residents said.
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A suicide bomber detonated his car Monday at the gate to the home of the leader of Iraq's biggest political party, killing and wounding several of the guards but leaving the cleric unharmed, his spokesman said.
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Iraqi politician and former US favourite Ahmed Chalabi escapes unhurt after gunmen open fire on his convoy.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded in municipal offices where he was making a speech
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Opposition leader Omar Abdullah survives an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
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COLOMBO: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will leave for the Maldives today in the second walk of his Saarc countries visit. Soon after his arrival on a two-day visit, the prime minister called on Sri Lankan President
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BAIDOA, Somalia  - Somalian President Abdullahi   Yusuf escaped a bomb on Monday that killed five people and   wounded several others outside parliament in the provincial   capital Baidoa.