Posts Tagged ‘Results’

Islamists sweep Kuwait polls

Kuwait’s Islamist-led opposition has won a landslide majority in Kuwait’s snap polls by securing 34 seats in the 50-member parliament, with women and liberals the big losers, results showed Friday.

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Russia blames ‘cosmic rays’ for Mars probe failure

MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday blamed a computer malfunction caused by the impact of cosmic rays for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars, one of a litany of setbacks for its embattled space programme. Announcing the initial results of the investigation into the Mars mission, Russian space agency Roscosmos also revealed the next manned [...]

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Drops full of hope

  #container{background:#666666;}   In a room full of lady health workers (LHW) and government school teachers, a training session is underway at the Karachi Police Hospital. The purpose – to train them in administering polio drops, recording results and working with parents who may refuse to get their children vaccinated or children who are not [...]

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Gingrich wins South Carolina Republican primary

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich came from behind to win the Republican presidential nomination contest in South Carolina Saturday, defeating former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the front-runner,  by double digits, results showed.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, television reports said Gingrich took 40 percent of the votes in the primary in South of the …

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Islamist parties win top spot in Egypt elections

Egypt’s Islamists led by the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood clinched two thirds of seats in parliament in historic polls after the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak, official results showed on Saturday.

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Ali stuns Abid in Sindh Cup

KARACHI – Ali Zaidi came from two sets down to outplay Abid Ali Abdi in the fourth league round of 20th Sindh Snooker Cup here on Saturday at Alys parlour. He lost the first two frames 50-82, 11-56 but came back strongly to win the next three 55-35,73-30,68-54 to clinch three frames to two verdict in his favour.
Results:
Shadab Baig bt Babar Rafiq 3-0, M Baqar bt Husain Shah 3-0, Irfan Rasheed …

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Pak U-14 tennis team misery continues

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan tennis team, currently participating in Division II U-14 Tennis championships in Vietnam, showed mixed results as its all the three boys lost their first round matches while the only girl Maheen Dada won her both opening day matches on Wednesday.
In the boys singles, Nofil Kaleem lost to Fahad Janani (UAE) 2-4, 5-3, 4-0 while Azhar went down 4-1, 4-0  against Hazem Naw …

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Peace talks will not have positive result: Gen Dostum

A key opposition leader, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, says peace talks will not have positive results as the ‘Taliban are not honest’.
General Dostum, who is visiting Germany, said that the Taliban group was making efforts to regroup by the end of 2014 when all foreign troops are expected to leave Afghanistan.
Dostum criticises peace talks with the Taliban at a time when the group has agreed to have …

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JI chief tells nation to be prepared for revolution in country

KARACHI: Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Syed Munawar Hassan called up on the nation on Sunday to be prepared for bringing a revolution in the country and viewed that elections held after the revolution will bear better results. Addressing a public meeting at Banaras Chowk area of Karachi on Sunday, the JI chief also said that [...]

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Tahir, Moosa elected KPC president, secretary

KARACHI, Dec 31: The Democrats Panel swept the Karachi Press Club elections for 2012 on Saturday, according to the results announced by the election commission.

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Absence from school may hint to possible mental problems

CALIFORNIA: Students who are frequently absent from school may have face mental health problems in future, according to research results released on Tuesday. The study, which was based on some 17,000 youths and was published in the Child Development journal, shows that youths who are frequently missing from the school my have a higher prevalence [...]

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“Mission Impossible” cruises to top of box office

LOS ANGELES: “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” cruised to No. 1 at box offices on Sunday, even as major new movies opened on Christmas Day which may change top 10 results when final numbers are tallied. The new Tom Cruise movie rang up an estimated $26.5 million in US and Canadian ticket sales over the [...]

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US Internet users not as scam-savvy as they think: study

SAN FRANCISCO: US Internet users are suckers for online scams, especially if the promised prize is a chance at a hip new gadget such as a tablet computer, according to study results released on Thursday. More than half of those surveyed in a Ponemon study backed by Internet security firm PC Tools indicated they would [...]

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Decision on Nato supply lines to be made by Parliament: FO

Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit on Thursday said that a detailed statement would be made after results of a military probe on the Nato attack on the Salala check post are made public by US defense officials, DawnNews reported.

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Probe finds US mistakes in Pakistan air strike: reports

WASHINGTON: The United States will soon concede responsibility in part for last month’s air strikes in Pakistan that killed 24 soldiers, US media reports said on Thursday citing US officials. Results of a US military probe, to be given to defense officials Friday, show US and Afghan commandos were wrong in concluding there were no [...]

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Munter gives vague assurance

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ISLAMABAD – US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Friday gave a vague assurance that Mohmand like attacks won’t be repeated while Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani asked the US to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty and give a clear guarantee that no transgression will occur in future.
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Police show muscles against students

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RAWALPINDI – Scores of violent students, most of them from private colleges, torched the office of Chairman Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi, including One-window section, in protest against the delay in announcement of revised results of Intermediate Part-1 here at 6th Road on Thursday.
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