Archive for the Category ‘International News’
Las Vegas: A Las Vegas couple who married in 1933 recently celebrated their 78th wedding anniversary with an unexpected present. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter says Wilbur and Theresa Faiss have been married longer than any other couple in the world.
Theresa
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San Juan: A Pentagon legal official refused on Friday to extend an important deadline for defence lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the September 11 attack, a decision that means their highly anticipated arraignment may now occur
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Beirut: In a barrage of mortar shells, Syrian forces killed 200 people and wounded hundreds in Homs in an offensive that appears to be the bloodiest episode in the nearly 11-month-old uprising, activists said Saturday.
The assault in Homs, which
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New Delhi: Less than a week after a similar move by micro-blogging site Twitter, Internet major Google has unveiled plans to make content on its blogger platform selectively available, depending on the local rules of each country. Here are the
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For the second time in a month, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani was ordered by the Supreme Court on Thursday to appear before it to be charged with contempt for repeatedly refusing to reopen corruption cases against President Asif
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United Nations: Diplomats have failed to reach agreement on a UN resolution aimed at ending the bloodshed in Syria, leaving discussions in limbo pending consultations with their home governments.
Envoys said on Thursday that yet another text is being drawn up
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Banjul: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has dissolved his entire cabinet two months after securing re-election for a new five-year term, state broadcaster GRTS announced on Thursday.
The brief announcement did not say why Jammeh had taken the decision or when the
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s supreme court on Thursday summoned PM Yousaf Raza Gilani to appear before it on February 13 to frame contempt charges against him for defying its orders to write to Swiss authorities to reopen a graft case against president
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Washington: The US has issued a travel alert, warning its citizens about the risks in travelling to Pakistan in view of recent developments and tension in US-Pak ties following the NATO raid that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Replacing its previous travel
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Riots that broke out after a football match in northern Egypt left at least 74 people dead, the Health Ministry said.
About 1,000 people were injured Wednesday when fans of the home side, al—Masri, stormed the field seconds after their side
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Melbourne: Several people are feared dead after a ferry carrying as many as 350 passengers on board sank off the north coast of Papua New Guinea, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday.
“There has been a boat go down
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Tokyo: An avalanche has killed three bathers at a hot spring in northern Japan, where heavy snow also has paralysed traffic and forced schools to close.
The deadly avalanche hit on Thursday in Akita.
Officials say snowstorms have battered coastal cities along
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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaitis started casting votes on Thursday in a snap poll to elect the fourth parliament in less than six years with unofficial polls showing the Islamist-led opposition in the lead.
The election was called following bitter political disputes and
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Washington: Amid credible reports that the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI was secretly supporting Taliban insurgents to recover lost ground in Afghanistan, the United States has asked Islamabad to snap those ties and act against terrorist safe havens.
Secretary of State Hillary
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Tokyo: An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) group has found the safety tests it had overseen at Japan’s idled nuclear reactors to be in line with international standards.
The head of a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) submitted
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New Delhi: The Pakistani security services are directly aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and have direct influence over its top leadership, a leaked NATO report has claimed. The report alleged that Pakistan’s top spy agency Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has
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Mitt Romney was rolling to an easy win Tuesday night in the Florida presidential primary against rival Republican Newt Gingrich, leading 47 per cent to 32 per cent with 80 per cent of precincts reporting.
The win gives the former Massachusetts
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United Nations: Vowing to avoid “another Libya,” the U.S. and its allies challenged Russia on Tuesday to overcome its opposition to a U.N. draft resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad yield power and end the violence that has
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