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Goody eyes India trip after TV racism row - paper

Staff Reporter · Jan 24, 2007 · 4 min read

LONDON, Jan 24 (Reuters): Shamed British television star Jade Goody is considering a fence-mending trip to India after her treatment of Bollywood actress Shilpa...

India confident of resolving all Indo-Pak issues: PM

Staff Reporter · Jan 24, 2007 · 10 min read

MOSCOW, Jan 24 (UNI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has ruled out any third party mediation between India and Pakistan for the resolution of their differences a...

Bush defends Iraq plan, asks for chance

Staff Reporter · Jan 24, 2007 · 3 min read

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters): President George W Bush urged a rebellious Congress to give his new Iraq war plan a chance and insisted in his State of the Union ...

Putin seconds Indo-US nuclear deal: Manmohan

Staff Reporter · Jan 24, 2007 · 6 min read

MOSCOW, Jan 24 (UNI): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has denied that the Indo-US nuclear deal will have a negative impact on energy cooperation with Russia. "I h...

US military plane crashes in Baghdad

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 1 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (Agencies): A US military remote controlled aircraft crashed near Baghdad airport, the military reported on Thursday. The aircraft crashed on We...

Suicide car bomber kills 17 in Baghdad

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (Agencies): A suicide car bomber killed 17 Shiites at a teeming Sadr City market Wednesday, while gunmen in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood o...

Channel 4 denies racial attack against Shilpa

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

LONDON, Jan 18 (Agencies): Amid a raging row over alleged racism against Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, UK's Channel 4 has denied that the Indian star suffere...

Insurgents blow up electricity pylons in Balochistan

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 18 (Agencies): Insurgents fighting government forces in Pakistan's southern Balochistan province Thursday blew up two electricity pylons in Dera ...

India for 'free, fair and credible' polls in Bangladesh

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

DHAKA, Jan 18 (Agencies): India has reiterated that it wants 'free, fair and credible' polls in Bangladesh that will have the participation of all political par...

Bangladesh widens crackdown on crime ahead of poll

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

DHAKA, Jan 18 (Reuters): Security forces in Bangladesh have detained nearly 2,000 people, including political activists, since a state of emergency was declared...

"Tariq Aziz should be allowed medical treatment in Russia"

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 1 min read

MOSCOW, Jan 18 (UNI): Russian State Duma International Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev today asked the government to grant the request of former ...

Russia keeps security alert in place

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 4 min read

MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters): Russia maintained extra patrols around the Moscow metro, military and key energy sites today, following a warning from the country's s...

India acquires US navy ship

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 2 min read

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (UNI): The formal transfer of American naval ship 'USS Trenton, Landing Platform Dock (LPD)', to the Indian Navy has marked the beginning of ...

Myanmar junta accuses Suu Kyi of tax evasion

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 2 min read

YANGON, Jan 18 (Reuters): Myanmar's military junta has accused democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in prison or under house arrest for 11 of the past ...

Second Australian Muslim cleric sparks controversy

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 2 min read

SYDNEY, Jan 18 (Reuters): An Australian Muslim cleric has urged children to be martyrs for Islam and referred to Jews as pigs in a series of DVDs, sparking cond...

At least four killed in car bomb in Baghdad-police

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 1 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 18 (Reuters): At least four people were killed and another 10 wounded today when a car bomb exploded in a busy street in central Baghdad, police so...

Pakistan rejects Taliban spokesman's claim on Omar

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 18 (Reuters): Pakistan rejected as absurd today a claim from a Taliban spokesman arrested in Afghanistan that the Taliban's fugitive leader, Mull...

Philippine troops kill 10 militants after Arroyo vow

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 3 min read

MANILA, Jan 18 (Reuters): US-trained Philippine soldiers killed 10 Islamic rebels in fresh fighting in the south today as President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo vowe...

UN envoy visits Mogadishu, discusses peacekeepers

Staff Reporter · Jan 19, 2007 · 2 min read

MOGADISHU, Jan 18 (Reuters): A top UN envoy flew to Somalia's capital on Thursday to discuss deploying African peacekeepers in order to avoid a security vacuum ...

Musharraf optimistic about Indo-Pak relations

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 4 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (Agencies): Ahead of Saturday's meeting with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Pakistan President Pervez Musahrraf said on Friday th...

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