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  • Obama knocks Republicans on campaign finance ruling

    President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations can spend on political campaign ads. Instead, the Republican Party wants to “keep the public in the dark” about who’s behind the expenditures, Obama contended in his weekly radio and Internet address, released Saturday as […]

    Iran to enrich uranium to 20 pct as per needs: Salehi

    Iran will press on with enriching uranium to 20 per cent purity until its nuclear fuel needs are met but not refine the material to this level “forever,” the country’s atomic chief said today. “We are not intending to convert all our uranium to 20 percent enriched uranium. We will go as far as our […]

    Anti-Taliban tribal elder, 5 others killed in Pak bomb blast

    Six people including an anti-Taliban tribal elder were killed and five others injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region on Saturday. The roadside bomb was exploded near the vehicle of members of the anti-Taliban peace committee at Ghalanai, the centre of Mohmand agency. The peace committee members were on routine patrolling when […]

    Ahmadinejad promises ‘global’ response if Iran is attacked

    Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has promised a global response if his country is attacked, in an interview with Qatari daily Al-Sharq published Saturday. “Our options will have no limits… They will touch the entire planet,” he said in reply to a question about Tehran’s reaction in the event of such an attack. Iran’s arch-foes […]

    Aus headed for first hung parliament since World War II

    Australia’s opposition coalition, led by Conservative Tony Abott, appeared to be charging past the Labor Party of Prime Minister Julia Gillard with a razor thin lead in a knife-edge electoral contest, bringing in the prospect of the first hung house since 1940. According to ABC’s latest report, Labor MPs have been swept aside by swings […]

    S Africa public workers strike on

    Public sector workers in South Africa are continued their strike for the third day with no progress in talks with the Government on pay scales. Hospitals have been badly affected and volunteers have been called in to replace the striking staff. After a day of running battles with the police on Friday, soldiers were deployed […]

    PLO-Israel to resume peace talks

    Palestinians and Israel have accepted an invitation by the US and Middle East quartet to restart direct talks on September 2 in a step toward forging a peace deal within 12 months to end Middle East conflict. In a statement, the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has announced its agreement to resume […]

    Second wave of floods hit Sindh, Balochistan

    A second wave of floods inundated several areas in Balochistan even as the worst deluge in Pakistan’s history led to mass evacuation in Sindh regions where around 3.6 million people have been affected and over 600,000 displaced. Flood water on Friday inundated new areas in Sindh where, 1,447 relief camps have set up where 610,614 […]

    Iran Starts up First Nuclear Plant

    Iran and Russia began to load uranium fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant on Saturday in the wake of Tehran’s signal of a possible willingness to compromise on nuclear fuel enrichment, a major concern for the West regarding Iran’s nuclear drive. Nationwide celebrations are planned for the fuel delivery to the first unit of […]

    Three Missing, 50,000 Evacuated after Flood Hits NE China

    Three people were missing and about 51,000 people had been evacuated as of 7 a.m. Saturday, after the swollen Yalu River flooded parts of Dandong City in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, the city government said. The flooding caused 230 houses to collapse and cut transportation, communications and power supply in some areas, said a city […]