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    Govt planning troop reduction in J-K

    The Government is considering reducing the strength of security forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir by 25 per cent as a confidence building measure. Home Secretary Gopal K Pillai also said that India was planning to unilaterally issue six-month multiple entry permits for people of Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) wanting to visit Jammu and Kashmir through the […]

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    Journalist killed as political violence hits Karachi again

    A reporter of Geo television channel was gunned down by unidentified persons as violence and target killings returned to this Pakistani city once again, claiming as many as eight lives. Wali Babar was returning home from work when he was intercepted by some people in a car and gunned down from close range in the […]

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    Nigerian President wins primary election

    President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria has won the primary election of his governing People’s Democratic Party. Party sources say President Jonathan has won more than two-thirds of the vote in the convention beating his main rival, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. Media reports say Mr. Jonathan is likely to win Presidential election going to be […]

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    Pakistani President Zardari in US

    Pakistani President Asaf Ali Zardari is in United States where he is expected to meet President Obama at the White House today. A media report in Washington says American concern over growing Islamic militancy in Pakistan has intensified following the assassination of the liberal Pakistani politician Salman Taseer. President Zardari is to attend the memorial […]

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    Raise Tibet issue with Hu Jintao: Tibetan Americans to Obama

    Tibetan organisations and support groups in the US Friday appealed to President Barack Obama to raise the Tibet issue, including the human rights condition there with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, during the latter’s upcoming State visit. As many as 39 Tibetan Associations, organisations and support groups in a letter, appealed to Obama to make […]

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    UN Concerned about Attacks on UN Vehicles in Cote d’Ivoire

    UN Secretary-general Ban Ki- moon has condemned six incidents in Cote d’Ivoire since Thursday morning involving attacks on and attempts to burn UN vehicles by forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo, said a statement released here on Thursday by Ban’s spokesman, Martin Nesirky. “The secretary-general is deeply concerned that regular and irregular forces loyal to Mr. […]

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    Lebanon to Hold Parliamentary Consultation to Form New Gov’t

    Lebanese President Michel Sleiman will launch mandatory consultations next Monday to form a new government after the resignation of ministers affiliated with Shiite armed group Hezbollah brought down Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s cabinet. “The consultations will start at noon (10:00 GMT) Monday,” Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri told reporters after meeting the president. Eleven ministers quit […]

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    U.S. Vice President Meets Iraqi Leaders in Baghdad

    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met on Thursday with Iraqi top officials in his first visit to the country since Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki formed his new cabinet late last year. Maliki received Biden and his accompanying delegation in his office and stressed the need to develop relations between Iraq and the United States in […]

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    Russian President Admits Failure in Fighting Corruption

    Russian authorities have failed to cope with widespread corruption, President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday during a meeting of the Anti-Corruption Council. Medvedev, who chaired the meeting, admitted that the situation was “sad and dangerous,” after the head of Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that 34 percent of all corruption crimes in 2010 were committed by […]

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    ROK, Japan Probe into Possible Violation

    South Korean and Japanese coast guards launched a joint probe into a South Korean fishing boat’s possible violation of Japanese waters near the disputed islets of Dokdo, known as Takeshima in Japan, late Thursday, according to Seoul’s coast guard. Patrol ships of the both sides began the joint investigation at around 3:53 p.m. local time […]

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