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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Curfew was clamped on Saturday in some parts of Srinagar, Sopore, Anantnag and Bijbehara towns in the wake of a separatists’ call for shutdown and protests. “Areas under the jurisdiction of police stations of Srinagar district – Batamloo, Bemina, Qamarwari, Kralkhud, Nowhatta, Khanyar, M R Gunj, Safakadal, Rainawari, Maisuma, Shaheedgunj and Abi-guzar area of police […]
The water level of Yamuna River has crossed the danger level due to incessant rains in New Delhi in the last three days, forcing the government to evacuate people living in low-lying areas along its bank. The river crossed the danger level of 204.83 metres on Friday evening and now it is flowing 11 cm […]
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