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Greece to extend all help to India check human trafficking

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 1 min read

ATHENS, Apr 26 (UNI): As the Indian Parliament discusses the issue of human trafficking, Greece today said it will make all efforts with the south Asian country...

Ukraine PM says vote decree undermines agreements-Ifx

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 1 min read

MOSCOW, Apr 26 (Reuters): Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich said today President Viktor Yushchenko's election decree had undermined agreements already ...

Ex-commander of US prison in Iraq detained-military

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 1 min read

BAGHDAD, Apr 26 (Reuters): The former commander of a major US military detention centre in Baghdad has been detained and is under investigation for "aiding the ...

Jet Airways set for œ1.9 bln expansion

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 2 min read

LONDON, Apr 26 (UNI): Jet Airways today announced an expansion plan of 1.9 billion pounds, which is expected to give further competition to the two UK carriers ...

Last state-of-the-nation address: Putin

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 2 min read

MOSCOW, Apr 26 (UNI): President Vladimir Putin today said in his annual state-of-the-nation address to the joint session of the Russian parliament that this wou...

Iran says near unity with EU in some nuclear areas

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 14 min read

ANKARA, Apr 26 (Reuters): Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said today Iran and the EU were nearing "a united view" in some areas of their talks to break ...

Pakistan brings curtain down on play satirising burqa

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Apr 26 (Reuters): - Irate Islamist lawmakers persuaded the Pakistan government on Thursday to stop a theatre group staging a satirical play about the...

Pakistan says no compromise on nuclear programme

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 1 min read

RAWALPINDI, Apr 26 (Agencies):Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Thursday said that his government seeks peace through strength in South Asia and will never c...

Pakistan spillover from any Iran attack - Musharraf

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 1 min read

MADRID, Apr 26 (Reuters): - Any U.S. attack on Iran would fuel sectarian tensions in key U.S. ally Pakistan, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said in an in...

12 killed in Iraq violence

Staff Reporter · Jun 16, 2008 · 2 min read

BAGHDAD/MOSUL, Apr 26 (Agencies): At least 12 people, including nine soldiers, were killed and 28 injured Thursday in separate suicide attacks in Iraq, police s...

'Britain wants to build on its historic links with India'

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 2 min read

LONDON, July 10 (Agencies): Highlighting the importance of its ties with India, Britain hassaid it is keen to "celebrate and build on the historic links" with N...

B'desh, India agree to launch train service

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 9 min read

DHAKA, July 10 (Agencies): Bangladesh and India today agreed to launch direct passenger train service between Dhaka and Kolkata within next four weeks, more tha...

US won't tolerate dictatorial succession in Cuba: Rice

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 3 min read

WASHINGTON, July 10 (Agencies):US will not tolerate the transition from one dictator to another in Cuba, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said, accord...

Suicide bomb kills 11 Afghan civilians - police

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

KABUL, July 10 (Reuters): A suicide car bomber killed 11 civilians in an attack on NATO forces in southern Afghanistan today, the provincial police chief said. ...

UN's Ban urges peaceful end to Pakistan mosque siege

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

BRUSSELS, July 10 (Reuters): UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon appealed today for a peaceful resolution to the siege of a mosque in Islamabad after Pakistani for...

Rebel German rail union stages strikes despite deal

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 2 min read

BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters): German rail transport was disrupted by warning strikes again today when workers in a rebellious train drivers union walked off the jo...

Foreign military helicopter crashes in Afghan east

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 1 min read

KABUL, July 10 (Reuters): A foreign military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's eastern province of Laghman today, government sources said, but there was no wo...

China floods 75 villages to ease swollen river

Staff Reporter · Jun 10, 2008 · 3 min read

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters): China flooded dozens of evacuated villages today to ease pressure from a swollen river after torrential rains that have killed more ...

Pakistan puts off plan to shut Afghan refugee camp

Staff Reporter · Jun 14, 2007 · 3 min read

QUETTA, PAKISTAN, June 13 (Reuters): Pakistani authorities have put off plans to shut down one of the oldest camps for Afghan refugees, saying its inhabitants h...

Indian convinced missing brother died in Pakistan

Staff Reporter · Jun 14, 2007 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, June 13 (Reuters): An Indian searching for his soldier brother who went missing during a 1971 war with Pakistan said on Tuesday he had at last found ...

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