Amid reports that US may dismantle Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, the American Embassy in Islamabad has said there were “potential threats” to Islamabad’s atomic weapons from terrorists and that the country could still improve its nuclear security programmes. The US Embassy in Islamabad was reacting to a report in the American journal, The Atlantic, which said […]
In fresh violence in Iraq, 10 people were killed in bomb blasts in the busy commercial area of Shurja in Central Baghdad. Three bomb explosions ripped through the busy market place in Shurja on Sunday where people were shopping for the Eid al-Adha festival. Major General Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman for Baghdad security operations said the […]
Thai officials said that the death toll from Thailand’s worst flooding in 50 years has reached 506. The officials said the flood waters are threatening Bangkok’s largest outdoor shopping zone, the famed Chatuchak market and the subway system and new evacuations are taking place in the city of 12 million. Local authorities ordered evacuations in […]
A former general promising to get tough on rampant crime and drug violence easily won Guatemala’s presidential election, marking a shift to the right in the poor Central American nation. Otto Perez Molina of the conservative Patriotic Party won 55 percent of the vote, topping tycoon-turned-political populist Manuel Baldizon of the Democratic Freedom Revival party, […]
Political leaders in Greece clinched a historic deal to form a national unity government to haul the debt-wracked country, and the eurozone, back from the brink of disaster. Prime Minister George Papandreou crucially agreed to step down on Sunday, removing a key stumbling block which had held up an accord just hours before nervous financial […]
Pakstan’s Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar says, her country has not backtracked on the issue of giving India Most Favoured Nation-status (MFN). Talking to reporters in Lahore yesterday, Ms Khar said, there is an impression in the media that Pakistan made a decision on MFN and then backtracked. She said this was totally wrong and […]
Thousands of opposition supporters rallied yesterday in Central Rome to call for the resignation of the Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Silvia Berlusconi. The leader of the Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, told the demonstrators that he was ready to lead a new coalition government with all opposition groups. Mr. Berlusconi said that the Administration is […]
At least seven people have been killed and more than 50 injured in Britain’s worst traffic accident since the early 1990s. Several dozens cars and trucks are caught up in the motorway pile-up in South West England. Police said they expected the death toll to rise with further casualties feared to be still trapped in […]
At least 150 people were killed and several injured after a series of overnight shootings and bombings ripped through northeast Nigeria, officials and rescue workers said. The radical Islamic sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attacks, which included bombing a government building and gunning down over 63 people in the northern city of Damaturu, […]
With a number of self-immolation bids by Tibetans highlighting ethnic tensions in China, the US has asked Beijing to address its “counterproductive policies” in Tibet and respect human rights to resolve the grievances of Tibetans. A Buddhist nun in China’s southwest Sinhuan Province has died after setting herself on fire, in the eleventh case of […]
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