India court rejects home minister prosecution bid
An Indian court on Saturday threw out a petition to prosecute the country’s powerful home minister in a massive corruption scandal over the alleged mis-selling of mobile telephone licences. The plea “to summon Chidambaram as an accused is dismissed,” Special Judge O.P. Saini told the courtroom in a brief statement. The ruling came as a huge relief to the Congress-led coalition …
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‘Sorry’ Saleh says farewell to Yemen
SANAA – Yemen’s veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he will head to the United States for medical treatment as he asked his people for forgiveness in a farewell speech released as he left Sanaa Sunday.
“I will go to the United States for treatment and will then return as head of the General People’s Congress (GPC) party,” the official Saba news agency quoted Saleh …
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Romney progresses towards Republican nomination, wins New Hampshire; Paul second
WASHINGTON – Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, the second state in a row he has carried in his campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination to challenge President Barack Obama in November elections.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a liberal, came second, while former Utah governor Jon Huntsman was third.
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Ten per cent of Libyan assembly seats for women: draft law
TRIPOLI: Ten per cent of the seats of the proposed Libyan constituent assembly will be reserved for women, a draft election law published on Monday said. “The General National Congress (constituent assembly) is to be composed of 200 members elected freely and directly. 10 per cent of the seats will be reserved for women,” said [...]
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‘Forrest Gump’ to be preserved in US film registry
WASHINGTON: Forrest Gump’s oft-imitated line, ”My momma always said, ‘Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get’ ” will be immortalized among the U.S. treasures in the world’s largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. The Library of Congress on Wednesday announced that 1994′s smash hit ”Forrest Gump” [...]
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Pakistan aid linked to efforts against terrorists
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The US Congress has passed a bill imposing more conditions on aid to Pakistan, especially linking it to Islamabad’s cooperation in war on terror and its efforts in curbing terrorists, including Haqqani network, a strong factions of Afghan Taliban.
The bill passed by the US House of Representatives attached condition…
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Aid ‘freeze’ to Pakistan can be waived: US
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As the US Congress agreed to freeze close to $700 million in aid to Pakistan, the Obama administration sought to assure its estranged ally that the legislation merely includes a reporting requirement and that too could be waived.
The freeze provision is part of a giant $662 billion defence budget…
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Pakistan criticises ‘wrong’ US aid freeze
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Pakistan on Thursday angrily criticised US moves to freeze $700 million in aid, the latest sign of the fraying alliance that has been in deep crisis since Nato fire killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. “We believe that the move in the US Congress is not based on facts and takes narrow…
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No cut in $700 million civilian aid to Pakistan: US
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WASHINGTON DC (Agencies) – Struggling hard to restore its ties with Pakistan in the aftermath of Nato airstrike last month, the Obama administration on Tuesday said it had not cut any civilian aid to Pakistan, noting that it was an on-going move in the Congress right now.
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US lawmaker calls for ending ‘irrational’ ties with Pakistan
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NEW YORK – A US lawmaker has called Pakistan a ‘radical Islamic terrorist State’, and backed a proposal that Washington work more closely with Russia to end the conflict in Afghanistan.
In a letter published in The New York Times on Friday, Republican Congresswoman Dana Rohrabacher, who is the Chairman…
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US Congressman urges apology over Pakistani soldiers’ death in NATO attack
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U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich has demanded for an apology to Pakistan over deaths of its 24 soldiers in NATO strikes last month, arguing that the incident should not be allowed to further damage the vital U.S.-Pakistan relationship. The Democrat from Ohio said Tuesday the November 26 incident “puts relationship, which…
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US Congressman deeply concerned by NATO strike in Pakistan; seeks full probe
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U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat from Ohio, has voiced his deep concern over NATO’s deadly strike in sovereign Pakistani territory and asked Pentagon to ensure a “full and transparent” investigation into the incident. The lawmaker wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, after NATO attack in Pakistan, a…
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US Congressman concerned by Nato strike, seeks full probe
“The response of the United States will be critical…to the security of our troops in Afghanistan,” Dennis Kucinich stressed in the letter released by his office.
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India govt fails to break impasse on retail reform
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed to break an impasse on Tuesday, with opposition parties and his own political allies demanding a rollback of a reform allowing foreign supermarket giants to enter the country’s $450 billion market. The deadlock means Singh’s Congress party-led coalition faces further opposition disruption of parliament – which has [...]
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ICC President Sharad Pawar slapped in Delhi
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ICC President and Indian Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a youth on Thursday. The man, indentified as Harvinder Singh, attacked the Nationalist Congress Party chief when he was speaking to reporters after a function at the NDMC Centre in the heart of the Delhi. Harvinder Singh, who…
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South African lawmakers approve secrecy bill
CAPE TOWN: South Africa’s parliament Tuesday approved a controversial new state secrets bill despite an outcry that it will threaten democracy and prevent exposure of corruption by investigative journalists. The bill was approved in a 229-107 vote, with the African National Congress (ANC) using its hefty majority in the National Assembly to muscle it [...]
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Hollywood, Silicon Valley spar over online piracy bill
WASHINGTON: Hollywood sparred with Silicon Valley in the US Congress on Wednesday at a hearing on a controversial bill intended to crack down on online piracy. Internet search giant Google, an opponent of the legislation, was pitted alone against five supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) at the three-and-a-half hour hearing of the [...]
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