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TEHRAN: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that world pressure on Iran, including talk of new sanctions, makes the Islamic republic more determined than ever to pursue its nuclear programme. His defiance came after US President Barack Obama vowed to ratchet up global pressure on Tehran to abandon its controversial atomic programme which he said [...]
WASHINGTON: The United States has discarded a list of 14 nations, including Pakistan, whose citizens required additional screening at American airports in its new security policy. The new criteria selects passengers for additional security based on possible matches to intelligence information, including physical descriptions, age or a particular travel pattern. An official announcement in Washington [...]
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, [...]
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has said that Pakistan also needs to be enlisted in any effort to seek reconciliation with the Afghan militants, although the process has to be led and managed by Kabul. A senior US defence official, while briefing journalists in Washington, recalled that Pakistan had offered assistance to Afghanistan in the reconciliation process [...]
RIYADH: Muslim scholars from around the world who met this week in Saudi Arabia’s holy city Medina have denounced “terrorism” and appealed to “extremists” to repent, a statement said on Thursday. The four-day Islamic conference, sponsored by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz and organised by the Islamic University of Medina, drew some 500 [...]
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 [...]
BEIJING: A gas explosion at a coal mine in central China killed 12 people and left 32 missing, Xinhua news agency said on Thursday, even as rescuers worked to save 153 workers at a different mine in Shanxi province. Coal mine accidents are common in China, the world’s largest producer, but the large number of [...]
DUBAI: Seventeen Indian nationals have been sentenced to death for killing a Pakistani man in a turf dispute between bootleg liquor gangs in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, local media reported on Monday. The Pakistani man was beaten to death with metal bars in January 2009, while three others were injured in the attack, [...]
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 [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu has moved to ease tensions with the US, describing the two countries’ relations as those of “allies and friends”. Mr Netanyahu also dismissed reports one of his confidants called US President Barack Obama a “disaster” for Israel. The US has criticised the building of Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, which [...]
VILLAVICENCIO (Colombia): Colombia’s main leftist rebel group, the Farc, has freed a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. Private Josue Daniel Calvo, 22, was handed over to a humanitarian mission at a set of co-ordinates in the jungle provided by the rebels. He was flown to Vanguardia airport in Villavicencio where he stepped [...]
SEOUL: The South Korean military says it has located the stern of its warship that sank in mysterious circumstances on Friday following an explosion. The authorities are hoping that some of the 46 crew members still missing may be alive but trapped in underwater air pockets in the wreckage. Military diving teams were due to [...]
SEARCHLIGHT: Sarah Palin told thousands of tea party activists assembled in the dusty Nevada desert Saturday that Sen. Harry Reid will have to explain his votes when he comes back to his hometown to campaign. The wind whipped U.S. flags behind the former Alaska governor as she stood on a makeshift stage, holding a microphone [...]
BEIJING: China said Thursday it still preferred diplomacy to sanctions in resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, a day after Britain’s U.N. ambassador said China had agreed for the first time to discuss new measures against Tehran. China, which relies on Iran for much of its energy, traditionally opposes sanctions, although it went along [...]
BAGHDAD: Former premier Iyad Allawi on Saturday began talks which could last months to form a government after narrowly edging out incumbent Nuri al-Maliki in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. “There must be a strong government, capable of taking decisions which serve the Iraqi people, and bring peace and stability to Iraq,” Allawi told a press conference [...]
JERUSALEM: Four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers died in clashes on the Gaza border on Friday, an army general said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu consulted his security cabinet on US pressure on settlement building. “An officer and a soldier were killed and two others slightly wounded in an exchange of fire with terrorists planting [...]
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Friday to sharp cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in two decades. “We have turned words into action,” Obama declared. Obama said the pact, to be signed on April 8 in Prague, was part [...]
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. [...]
In a new audio recording, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened to kill captured Americans if 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is executed. Al Jazeera broadcast the purported message from Bin Laden today. “The day America will take such decision [to execute Mohammed and any others] it would have taken a decision to execute [...]
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
