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The US was paying Pakistan $250 per contained till late last year before a rash of crises starting with the Raymond Davis episode and culminating with the Salala incident. ...
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The website, which is widely used in Pakistan, was blocked by the telecoms authority on the orders of the IT ministry, with authorities accusing Twitter of refusing to remove ...
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BEIJING: All 29 Chinese fishermen kidnapped earlier this month by unidentified armed North Koreans have been freed and are on their way home, Chinese state media said on ...
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TRIPOLI: The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scot land in 1988 that killed 270 people has died, his brother said ...
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BELGRADE: Serbians voted Sunday for a new president in a run-off with the incumbent Boris Tadic, who has vowed to lead the Balkans nation into the EU, set to beat nationalist ...
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KABUL (Afghanistan): The Taliban on Sunday urged all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their forces from the war. The Taliban also on Sunday took ...
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BEIJING: A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly month-long diplomatic ...
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WASHINGTON: Defying the White House veto threat, the Republican-majority US House of Representatives has passed the $643 billion defence authorization bill for 2013 that among ...
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WASHINGTON: Pakistan is about to resume normal arrangement of trucks with Nato supplies passing through its territory, the country's top diplomat in Islamabad has said, amidst ...
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CAPE CANAVERAL (US): A new private rocket bound for the International Space Station roared to life for a history-making liftoff today, but remained stuck on the ground ...
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DHAKA: A 31-year-old Bangladeshi accountant Saturday became the first woman from her country to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Nishat Majumder, who began ...
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Pakistan will test fire a new nuclear-capable missile by the end of this month, a media report said Saturday.
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al-Qaida was responsible for two suicide car bombs that killed at least 55 people in Syria a week ...
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LONDON: Indian-origin councillor Abdul Razak Osman has become the first Lord Mayor of the Islamic faith to hold the high office in the multi-cultural town of Leicester, which ...
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WASHINGTON: The House of Representatives has voted to require the United States to sell 66 new fighter jets to Taiwan, with lawmakers saying the deal would close a growing ...
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The IAEA wants Iran to address claims made in an extensive agency report in November that at least until 2003, and possibly since then, it carried out "activities relevant to ...
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LONDON: Carla Bruni is facing embarrassing revelations about her past love affair with France's new foreign minister. The former supermodel reportedly had a "brief but very ...
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LONDON: Two months after he was shot dead by French special forces, a 23-year-old Algerian-origin terrorist was found to have been plotting to attack the Indian embassy in ...
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WASHINGTON: The US has slapped sanctions on two Afghan men linked with the Taliban and the Haqqani network based along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, barring American ...
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PARIS: Just three days after being sworn in, French president Francois Hollande heads to Washington Friday for a crash course in big-power diplomacy in back-to-back summits at ...
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BEIJING: A woman in China's Shanxi province has been detained for allegedly torturing her seven-year-old step-daughter to death. According to the autopsy report, the girl, ...
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THE HAGUE: Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when ...
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NAVARRE(OHIO)/WASHINGTON: The busy shop floor at Miller Weldmaster Corp could make a great location for an Obama campaign ad. As workers assemble the family-owned company's ...
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will attend Nato's Chicago summit as Islamabad looks all set to open the six-month blockade of the military alliance's supply ...
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WASHINGTON: Sikh police officers in the American capital will be allowed to wear turbans, beards and other religious items while on the job. The new uniform policy announced ...
