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  • Australia’s flood death toll rises to 10

    In Australia, the death toll from the country’s worst flooding in a decade in the state of Queensland has now risen to 10. Rockhampton city of the state has been badly hit with many people being forced to flee. Military flights rushed to restock the city before it is cut off by floodwaters that have […]

    China made nuclear fuel breakthrough

    Chinese scientists say they have made a breakthrough which could provide supply of uranium for the country’s nuclear power programme for up to 3000 years. State television reported the researchers have developed a process that will allow spent nuclear fuel to be reprocessed. Current reserves of uranium in China could run out in less than […]

    1st comprehensive census in Lanka in last 30 years

    Post conflict Sri Lanka will witness a comprehensive census for the first time in the last 30 years. The Department of Census & Statistics in Sri Lanka said that due to the ongoing ethnic conflict which lasted over three decades, conducting a national census covering the entire country was not possible earlier. Sri Lanka conducted […]

    Gilani reaches out to opposition PML-Q to save his govt

    As clamours for his resignation mounted with withdrawal of support from his key ally MQM, Pakistan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Monday reached out to the opposition PML-Q in desperate attempts to shore up his government. After the withdrawal of support by Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the Pakistan People’s Party-led federal government […]

    Terror plot foiled, two held in Pak: Police

    Pakistani police Monday claimed they had foiled a possible terrorist attack by arresting two men in Punjabprovince’s Taxila city and seizing 150 kg of explosives and 2,000 detonators from them. Police said they intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle at a check post on Thatta Road in Taxila, located over 30-km from Islamabad. The two men travelling in the car were taken […]

    Israel gears up for Iran attack

    WikiLeaks documents published in a Norwegian newspaper indicate that Israel would have 10-12 minutes’ warning if Iran launched rockets against that country. Norwegian daily Aftenposten cites a cable describing a 15th November , 2009, meeting between an American congressional delegation and Israel’s military chief in which he reportedly said Israel was gearing up to defend […]

    Flood chaos hits 22 towns in Australian’s Queensland state

    Australian military is rushing supplies to the flood-hit Rockhampton city in the Queensland state, as the floodwaters have inundated at least 22 towns in what is described as a disaster of “biblical proportions”. The flooding has directly impacted about 200,000 people, according to Emergency Management Queensland, and has affected an area roughly the size of […]

    US diplomats pushed Boeing deals: Cables

    US diplomats have on several occasions intervened to convince foreign governments to buy aircraft from Boeing rather than its European rival Airbus, newly released diplomatic cables show. The cables, obtained by the New York Times from the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, document several incidents in which diplomats were involved in haggling over the billion-dollar deals seen […]

    Flood hits 22 towns in Australian’s Queensland state

    Australian military is rushing supplies to the flood-hit Rockhampton city in the Queensland state, as the floodwaters have inundated at least 22 towns in what is described as a disaster of “biblical proportions”. The flooding has directly impacted about 200,000 people, according to Emergency Management Queensland, and has affected an area roughly the size of […]

    MQM quits PPP-led coalition in Pakistan

    Pakistan Peoples Party-led government has lost majority in Parliament as one of its key allies – MQM quit the coalition and decided to sit in the opposition. The MQM was the second largest party in the alliance with 25 lawmakers in the 342-member National Assembly. The MQM said they have resigned because of the administration’s […]