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Australian combat troops to leave Iraq by mid-2008: Rudd

Staff Reporter · May 28, 2009 · 2 min read

MELBOURNE, NOV 30 (Agencies): Australian combat troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the middle of next year, Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd said today, spelli...

Pak opposition divided over boycotting election

Staff Reporter · May 28, 2009 · 6 min read

ISLAMABAD, NOV 30 (Agencies):Pakistan's main opposition parties appeared completely divided on whether to participate in the January 8 general election or not, ...

Bhutto gears for Pakistani poll, Sharif for boycott

Staff Reporter · May 28, 2009 · 4 min read

ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (Agencies): Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was gearing up on Friday for a January election as another Opposition leader, Nawaz...

India gains as Pakistan loses Iranian rice market

Staff Reporter · May 28, 2009 · 3 min read

KARACHI, Nov 30 (Agencies): Pakistani rice exporters are up in arms against the government, as India has emerged as the preferred exporter of the commodity to I...

Britain's Brown mauled in local elections

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 3 min read

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters) Britain's ruling Labour Party slumped to its worst local election defeat in 40 years today, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Gordon Brow...

US envoy meets Nepal's former Maoist rebel chief

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 2 min read

KATHMANDU, May 2 (Reuters): The US ambassador to Nepal has met the country's former Maoist rebel chief, the first official meeting of a senior American official...

Myanmar "forces" civil servants to vote for charter

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 3 min read

YANGON, May 2 (Reuters): Hundreds of government workers in Myanmar have been forced to vote in favour of an army-drafted constitution in non-secret ballots held...

Iran says talks in Tehran to help end Iraq clashes

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 3 min read

TEHRAN, May 2 (Reuters): Iran says it aims to help end fighting in its neighbour by talking to an Iraqi delegation visiting the Islamic Republic, the official I...

Pakistan all set to be re-admitted to C'Wealth

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, May 2 (UNI): Pakistan is all set to be readmitted to the Commonwealth this month. A crucial meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMA...

Putin's legacy strong Russia with Soviet flavour

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 4 min read

MOSCOW, May 2 (Reuters) When Russian President Vladimir Putin steps down next week after eight years in power, he will leave behind him a strong Russia, self-co...

Myanmar's Suu Kyi on voter list for referendum

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 2 min read

YANGON, May 2 (Reuters) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for the last five years, should be able to vote in a May constitutional r...

Zimbabwe opposition disputes electoral figure

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 2 min read

HARARE, May 2 (Reuters) Zimbabwe's opposition today disputed results of a March 29 presidential election released by electoral officials, saying opposition lead...

3 stranded Indian sailors get relief

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 1 min read

DUBAI, May 2 (UNI): Three Indian sailors, stranded here without pay for three months, finally got their emoluments at the intervention of the Dubai Immigration ...

UAE halts publication of 4 Malayalam and 2 Urdu dailies

Staff Reporter · May 12, 2009 · 2 min read

DUBAI, May 2 (UNI): Six vernacular publications, including prominent Malayalam dailies like Malayala Manorama and Madhyamam, had to halt their publication after...

Israel set for 'all out war' against Hamas, 315 Killed

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 2 min read

JERUSALEM, Dec 30 (Agencies): Israel massed hundreds of tanks in expectation of a land strike on the Gaza Strip as fighter jets continued their blanket bombings...

JuD ban high point of Indian diplomacy at UN in '08

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 6 min read

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 30 (Agencies): Sanctions on Pakistan-based terrorist organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa and its leaders, who planned, financed and executed the Mum...

Sheikh Hasina scripts stunning victory in B'desh polls

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 2 min read

DHAKA, Dec 30 (Agencies): Awami League-led alliance headed by Sheikh Hasina, who has a good equation with Indian leadership and favours strong ties with New Del...

Hasina's journey

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 3 min read

BANGLADESH, Dec 30 (Agencies): Sheikh Hasina Wajid, a close friend of India, has fought back against all odds to make a triumphant return to power in Bangladesh...

Row over sacking of Indian priests at Pashupatinath temple

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 2 min read

KATHMANDU, Dec 30 (Agencies): The government's decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the capital has sparked a row in Nepal, wi...

Do more to stop Mideast violence, says UN to world

Staff Reporter · Dec 31, 2008 · 4 min read

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 30 (Agencies): Flaying the international community for not doing enough to bring the violence in Middle East to an end, UN Secretary-General...

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