Vladimir Putin “Anyone who does not regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart...”
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LONDON:U.S. and Afghan officials have slammed Britain’s intelligence service for allowing an impostor to hold talks with high-level members of NATO and Afghanistan’s government. The London Times reports that the U.K.’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) paid a man they believed to be Akthar Mohammad Mansour — a former aviation minister in the pre-2001 Taliban government, [...]
PARIS: France is to probe allegations of kickbacks on arms deals with Pakistan used to fund political campaigns following a suit lodged by relatives of French engineers killed in a 2002 Karachi bombing. Investigating magistrate Renaud van Ruymbeke is to probe allegations that a company set up with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s approval channelled money from [...]
ROME: At least nine people were killed and 30 injured when a landslide derailed a train in northern Italy. Rescue officials said the train was struck as it was travelling near the city of Merano, close to the Austrian border, just after 9am (7am GMT) on Monday. Italian television reports said up to 20 people [...]
WARSAW: Language problems between Russian air traffic controllers and Polish pilots, and pressure from high-ranking plane passengers, may have contributed to the crash on Saturday in which 96 people – including the Polish president – were killed, it was revealed today. The Russian air traffic controller Pavel Plusnin – who was the last person to [...]
MOSCOW: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of other people were killed Saturday when the president’s plane crashed on landing in the western Russian city of Smolensk, officials said. The
BERLIN: Construction of the controversial Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to western Europe under the Baltic Sea has been officially launched. Gazprom holds 51% of Nord Stream, which will run from the Russian port of Vyborg to Germany’s Greifswald. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the ceremony near Vyborg. The project [...]
PRAGUE: US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, have signed a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague. The treaty commits the former Cold War enemies to each reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to 1,550 – 30% lower than the previous ceiling. Mr Obama said it was an [...]
MOSCOW: One of the suicide bombers who blew herself up aboard a crowded Moscow subway car this week was a teenager from the restive republic of Dagestan, Russian authorities said Friday. The national counter-terrorism committee released only the name of the teen who set off her charge in Park Kultury Metro station as Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova, [...]
BRUSSELS: A Belgian parliamentary committee voted on Wednesday to ban the full Islamic face veil, a move that, if ratified, could make Belgium the first country to enforce such a ban. The lower house of parliament will vote on the bill on April 22 and it could enter into law in June or July. Some [...]
MOSCOW: At least 37 people are reported to have been killed in two explosions on the Metro system in central Moscow. The first blast happened at the city’s central Lubyanka station killing 25, reports quoting security sources said. A second explosion less than an hour afterwards happened at the Park Kultury station killing 12, Russian [...]
LONDON: The UK government needs to be “less deferential” towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said. The Commons Foreign Affairs committee also said it was wrong to speak of “the special relationship” with the US, as it was fostering other alliances. However, the MPs did [...]
MOSCOW: Russia’s new main battle tank (MBT), the T-95, could be exhibited for the first time at an arms show in the Urals Region this summer, the developer and future manufacturer of the tank has said. The development of the new tank dubbed “Item 195″ began at the Uralvagonzavod design bureau in the early 1990s. [...]
LONDON: Britain announced Tuesday it was kicking out an Israeli diplomat over the use of fake British passports in the killing of a Hamas chief in Dubai, in a sharp escalation of tension triggered by the murder. Foreign Secretary David Miliband said there were “compelling reasons” suggesting that Israel was to blame for the forgeries [...]
ST. PETERSBURG: Thousands of people rallied across Russia Saturday to denounce the government’s economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests
MOSCOW: The United States and Russia clashed over Iran’s first nuclear plant which Russia is helping build after strongman Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the station would come online this summer. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in Moscow hoping to secure Russia’s support for a tougher line on Iran, said such a move would [...]
MADRID: Five people have been arrested in Spain and France for extorting a 110,000 pounds ransom for British boy Sahil Saeed who was kidnapped in Jhelum about two weeks ago and freed on Tuesday. Spanish police said on Wednesday they had arrested two Pakistani men and a Romanian woman in the village of Constanti in [...]
ROME: A widening child sexual abuse inquiry in Europe has landed at the doorstep of Pope Benedict XVI, as a senior church official acknowledged Friday that a German archdiocese made “serious mistakes” in handling an abuse case while the pope served as its archbishop. The archdiocese said that a priest accused of molesting boys was [...]
WARSAW: On every Saturday night at Brave New World, an expansive, smoke-filled bar and leftist club that has become one of the capital’s hippest venues, clutches of stylishly dressed young people expounded on the virtues of Karl Marx and social democracy, in between gyrations on a dance floor and copious shots of vodka. The ritual [...]
LONDON: Five Pakistani men linked to a terror plot in Britain similar to the attacks on the London transport system in 2005 were arrested days before they planned to strike, a hearing was told Tuesday. A British intelligence officer, identified only as ZR, told an immigration panel that the group had been planning to stage [...]
DUBLIN: Police in Ireland arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog. Irish police said four men and three women were detained in raids across the south of the country. The force says the arrests were part of an investigation [...]
Misbah-ul-Haq appointed Pak Test team captain
Swiss ‘Return of Illicit Assets Act’: Pakistan can get billions back!
Cricketer Muhammad Asif finally brings his bride Sana Hilal home, Veena Malik Shocked
Veena Malik seeks court’s help for registration of an FIR against Muhammad Asif
In mom’s wedding sari, Sania Mirza says “Nikah Kabul Hai”; it’s Sania Shoaib from now
What’s going on between Pak cricket legend Wasim Akram & Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen?
Potential to generate 50,000mw electricity from Thar coal field for 800 years
