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COLOMBO, June 9 (UNI): A Sri Lankan Air Force Mig-27 crashed today while on a routine training sortie after the engine of the plane developed some problem, a de...
DUBAI, June 9 (UNI): Saudi Arabia's eastern province Governor Prince Muhammad Ibn Fahd has promised the Indian Embassy speedy solution to a labour dispute with ...
WANA, PAKISTAN, June 9 (REUTERS) Islamic militants and Pakistani troops exchanged fire in a remote mountainous region near Afghanistan today where authorities h...
BAGHDAD, June 9 (REUTERS) Kurdish members of Iraq's government will resign if called upon to do so by their leaders after the failure of the latest UNresolution...
KARACHI, June 9 (REUTERS) A member of Pakistan's ruling pro-military coalition was elected Chief Minister of volatile Sindh province today after a wave of milit...
ROME, June 9 (REUTERS) Three hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by US-led coalition forces returned to Italy today after nearly two months in captivity ...
MOSCOW, MARCH 15 (Reuters) Russian president Vladimir, speaking after winning a second four-year term in the Kremlin, pledged early today to maintain economic g...
MOSCOW, MARCH 15 (Reuters) Russian president Vladimir Putin today rebuffed US criticism of his landslide re-election, saying no democracy was perfect, not even ...
RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN, Apr 12 (Reuters) A Pakistani opposition leader was today sentenced to 23 years in prison after he was accused of defaming the military and...
Beijing, April 12 (NNN) : Chinese media has reported the kidnapping of seven Chinese citizens by armed men in central Iraq. The seven Chinese entered Iraq via J...
Islamabad, April 12 (NNN): Pakistan says it wants to strike an agreement on "Nuclear Restraint Regime" with India, adding that it was out of this strong desire ...
KARACHI, Feb 16 (Reuters) Pakistan stocks opened higher on Monday on hopes of improved ties with nuclear-armed neighbour India as the two countries resumed peac...
ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (UNI) Hailing New Delhi's decision to clear India's full tour of Pakistan in one-and-a-half decade, prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali ...
CAIRO, Feb 16 (DPA) A total of 132 children were 'lost' during the Haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in mid-January, but only one has not been reunited with his pa...
DUBAI, Feb 17 (UNI) Bodies of all but one of the 13 Indians who died in the Sharjah air crash have been claimed. Body of Purshottam Lal, whose passport details ...
DUBAI, Feb 17 (UNI) The thaw in ties between India and Pakistan has boosted tourism in Kashmir, said Mohammed Ashraf, adviser to the Jammu and Kashmir Tourism (...
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (UNI) The ongoing joint Indo-US exercises are aimed at warning Pakistan that if its much-talked of spring offensive against the Al Qaeda does...
COLOMBO, Feb 18 (UNI) The fast unto death by sixty seven Indian fishermen, who were arrested by the Sri Lankan navy five months back while illegally poaching in...
LONDON, Feb 18 (Reuters) Pakistan has no interest in matching India's Nuclear Weapons Development and does not need outside help to maintain or advance its prog...
WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (UNI) US secretary of state Colin Powell had taken up with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf the question of nuclear proliferation as early...