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  • Brazil goes to runoff after Rousseff falls short

    Ruling-party candidate Dilma Rousseff, who is trying to become Brazil’s first female leader, fell short of getting a majority of votes in presidential elections and now faces a runoff in four weeks against an experienced, centrist rival. Ms. Rousseff -popular President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s hand-chosen successor outpaced rival Jose Serra 46.9 percent to […]

    Test-tube baby pioneer Edwards wins medicine Nobel

    Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in-vitro fertilisation, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples worldwide have children. Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950’s. He developed the technique, in which egg […]

    Negotiators meet at pre-Cancun UN climate talks in China

    About 3,000 delegates from India and host of other countries and agencies under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol are attending the meeting in China’s northern Tianjin city. The talks that kicked off today are part of long-running efforts through the United Nations to secure a post-2012 treaty […]

    PNA not Receive U.S. Guarantee on Peace Talks

    The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) has not received any assurance from the United States regarding Israel’s stance towards the peace process and settlement construction freeze, a Palestinian official said Sunday. “The peace process is now stagnant despite the U.S.’s efforts to resume face-to-face negotiations,” Nabil Abu Rdineh, a spokesman for the PNA President Mahmoud Abbas […]

    Nerpa nuke sub delivery further delayed till March

    Signalling further delay in the delivery of Akula-II class nuclear attack submarine to India, a senior Russian official has said that it would now be handed over in March next year. “Russia will transfer the K-152 Nerpa attack submarine to India on a 10-year lease in March 2011,” Governor of Khabarovsk Region Vyacheslav Shport was […]

    CIA chief meets govt officials ahead of Obama’s visit

    Ahead of the visit of President Barack Obama, CIA chief Leon Panetta was in India looking for ways to cement sharing of information in tackling terrorism. Panetta, the top-most US intelligence official, held a series of meetings with senior government officials including Union Home Secretary G K Pillai over the last one week. During his […]

    US dismisses reports linking UNSC seat for India with Kashmir

    The US has categorically rejected reports that settlement of the Kashmir issue is a pre-condition set by it for endorsing India’s bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, saying there is no link between the two. “I don’t see a link between the two,” State Department spokesman P J Crowley said at […]

    18 killed in Indonesia train crash

    At least 18 people have been killed on Saturday when a passenger train smashed into the back of another train on Indonesia’s Java Island, police said. Police said a traffic management error was to blame for the accident, which occurred in the early morning at the station in Petarukan Pemalang, Central Java province. Police at […]

    Pervez Musharraf to launch his political party in London

    Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former military dictator, is set to launch a new political party the ‘All Pakistan Muslim league’ in UK on Friday with an intention to return to his country before 2013 elections. Musharraf, 67, who has lived in London since he stepped down in 2008, told the news agency that the army must […]

    Ecuadorian President Does not Rule out Early Elections

    Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has not ruled out the possibility of calling early general elections in the country, the Ecuadorian ambassador in Lima said Friday. “President Correa said that he did not rule out the possibility of bringing forward elections, if the Legislative Assembly is not working,” ambassador Diego Ribadeneierahe said. According to Ribadeneiera, Correa […]