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  • Pakistan must make efforts to root out extremism: US

    Terming the slaying of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer as a loss for Pakistan, the US has said the country has to make efforts to root out extremism and bring greater peace and stability. Taseer was gunned down by his own security guard who claimed he was offended by the Governor’s criticism of the controversial blasphemy […]

    Republicans take charge of US House

    The new Republican majority in the House of Representatives takes power and vows to open a legislative battle with President Barack Obama over the size of government and how much it spends. Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, a liberal from San Francisco, turns over her speaker’s gavel to Rep John Boehner, a Midwestern conservative who plans […]

    FBI Chief Calls for Enhanced Efforts to Fight Cyber Crime

    FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday called for greater efforts to fight cyber crime. “The growth of this kind of media has overwhelmed us,” Mueller said, referring to crimes committed with computers, smart phones and other new technology. He made the remarks while inaugurating a newly opened cyber-crime laboratory in Orange County, near Los Angeles. […]

    Israeli Officers Exposed to Nerve Gas during Warfare Test: Report

    A group of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officers specializing in non-conventional warfare recently completed a first-of-its-kind training course at a U.S. facility, local daily Yedioth Aharonoth reported Wednesday. The officers, members of the IDF’s Home Front Command, were exposed to a chemical agent in one of the drills. Donning protective gear, they entered a room […]

    Gaza Militants Fire Homemade Rocket at S. Israel

    Gaza militants on Wednesday night fired a homemade rocket at southern Israel, no casualties were reported, Israeli Radio said. An Israeli army spokesman told the radio that a homemade rocket landed at the surrounding of the Ashkol town in southern Israel. No damages or casualties were reported. The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), loyal to the […]

    UN Security Council to Focus on Sudan, Haiti in January

    The UN Security Council will focus on the pressing issues of Sudan and Haiti in January, the council president announced here Wednesday. The announcement came as Ivan Barbalic, ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the UN who holds the rotating Council presidency for January, was briefing the reporters on the program of work of the […]

    Floods, Landslides Cut Major Highway in Australia

    Floods and landslides have cut Australia’s major Queensland highway connecting the state capital of Brisbane with the Darling Downs in southern Queensland and southwest Queensland, police said on Thursday. Police have advised the Warrego Highway is closed in two areas, at Toowoomba in South East Queensland and further west near the town of Jondaryan. All […]

    Landslides ,floods kill 25 in Philippines

    The death toll from landslides and floods in the Philippines rose to 25 today with those trying to profit from the disaster by salvaging flotsam becoming victims themselves. The regional civil defence chief Blanche Gobenciong said some of the seven dead in and around the southern city of Butuan were trying to salvage floating logs […]

    BDR mutiny trial starts

    In Bangladesh, a Dhaka court today began the trial process in the criminal cases filed against 824 people comprising BDR personnel and civilians for their involvement in the February 2009 mutiny on charges of murder, looting, arson, possession of arms and explosives. The court of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Zahirul Haque began the trial proceedings in […]

    Afghanistan says attacks against Vice-President thwarted

    Afghanistan’s intelligence agencies said on Wednesday that they have thwarted two major attacks in Kabul in the past 20 days- a plot to assassinate the country’s first vice-president and a bombing near the president’s palace. Latifullah Mashal, spokesman for the agencies, said authorities arrested five people who had been plotting a shooting and suicide bomb […]