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US against negotiated settlement with extremists in Pak

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 4 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (Agencies): Voicing concern over continuing movement of Taliban and Al Qaeda insurgents across the Pakistan-Afghan border, the US has said a n...

Japan issues tsunami warning after 8.3 quake

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 2 min read

TOKYO, Jan 13 (Agencies): Japan issued a tsunami warning and urged coastal residents to head to higher ground after a massive 8.3 magnitude quake in the Pacific...

Rabid dogs create panic in Pakistan city

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 1 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (Agencies): Two rabid dogs bit scores of people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, creating widespread panic before they could be cornered a...

ASEAN leaders move on terror, trade

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 2 min read

CEBU (PHILIPPINES), Jan 13 (Agencies): Southeast Asian leaders pledged today to get tougher on terrorism, move faster to create a single market and work harder ...

Malays, Indians sought as bone marrow donors

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 1 min read

SINGAPORE, Jan 13 (Agencies): Ethnic Malays and Indians are being sought as bone morrow donors in Singapore, officials said Saturday. The target is to add 5,000...

Bomb kills four of a family in Bangladesh slum

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 2 min read

DHAKA, Jan 13 (Agencies): A woman and her three daughters were killed when a crude bomb exploded in a slum in western Bangladesh on Saturday, police said. The v...

EAM visits Pakistan for first time

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (UNI): External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived here this afternoon on a two-day visit, his first to Pakistan, and hoped that the pe...

Musharraf sounds a note of hope ahead of crucial talks

Staff Reporter · Jan 14, 2007 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 13 (UNI): Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has expressed the hope that all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan may be resolved "soon...

US to set benchmarks for Iraqis

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Agencies): US President George W Bush's new Iraq policy will establish a series of goals that the Iraqi government will be expected to meet to ...

Clashes spread as blockade paralyses Bangladesh

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 3 min read

DHAKA, Jan 8 (Agencies): At least 50 people were injured and 30 detained in renewed clashes between police and activists on Monday as a blockade aimed at derail...

16 suspected Taliban militants held in Pakistan

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Jan 8 (Agencies): Sixteen suspected Taliban militants have been arrested in Pakistan's western province of Balochistan, reports said Monday. Plain-cl...

Adieu for king as Nepal gets new statute on Jan 15

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 3 min read

KATHMANDU, Jan 8 (Agencies): After over two centuries of ruling as head of state, Nepal's Shah dynasty of kings was Monday set to lose the position as the multi...

Astronomers unveil detailed 3-D map of universe

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Agencies): A team of astronomers has unveiled a three-dimensional map that sheds light on the mysterious "dark matter" that makes up a quarter ...

Gunmen attack Baghdad bus killing 15 - hospital

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 3 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 8 (Reuters): Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying dozens of cleaners and other workers from a Shi'ite Muslim district in Baghdad to the city's airport, k...

Bush, Blair worse than Saddam, says Malaysia ex-PM

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Jan 8 (Reuters): US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are war criminals with more Iraqi blood on their hands th...

Cold snap kills 110 in Bangladesh

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 3 min read

DHAKA, Jan 8 (Reuters): At least 20 people died of cold in northern Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the confirmed death toll in just a week to 110, offi...

Empty chair as "Saddam" trial resumes

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

BAGHDAD, Jan 8 (Reuters): All eyes will be on the empty chair in the dock today when the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leadership resumes in Baghdad. Nine ...

Indonesia concerned over more US troops in Iraq

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

JAKARTA, Jan 8 (Reuters): Indonesia is uneasy about the possibility of more US troops in Iraq and would like to see a Muslim peacekeeping force established, the...

Sri Lanka rebels say army shells kill three in east

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

COLOMBO, Jan 8 (Reuters): Sri Lankan army shells hit a hospital complex in the island's restive northeast district of Trincomalee today, killing three civilians...

Kazakh prime minister resigns

Staff Reporter · Jan 9, 2007 · 2 min read

ALMATY, Jan 8 (Reuters): Kazakh Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov, who changed the law to favour state companies over foreign investors, has resigned, a government...

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