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February 16, 2010 6:25 PM
The Gambia has expelled the envoy of the UN's children charity, Unicef. The organisation said officials gave Min Whee-Kang 24 hours to leave the country. BBC quoting reports says, she had left overland to neighbouring Senegal. <br/><br/>Unicef's spokeswoman in Gambia sa...
February 16, 2010 6:24 PM
Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said today that India and Pakistan stand to gain much from peace but are losing out because of the confrontationist approach.<br/><br/>Terming the Indo-Pak peace process as the most critical thing, Musharraf, said peace is crucial both f...
February 16, 2010 2:27 PM
Former opposition Presidential Candidate Retired General Sarath Fonseka filed an election petition at the Sri Lankan Supreme Court this morning through his lawyers challenging the election of the incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the recently concluded Presidential election. In his petition S...
February 16, 2010 2:27 PM
The military government in Myanmar has been urged to end the repression of ethnic minorities ahead of elections. A report by Amnesty International said activists from Myanmar's ethnic minority groups which constitute up to 40 per cent of the population face surveillance, harassment and discrimi...
February 16, 2010 2:03 PM
A top militant commander who is said to be second in command to elusive Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Mohhamad Omar was captured from Pakistan's port city of Karachi. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested in a secret joint operation of ISI and CIA operatives. He is also said to be a close assoc...
February 16, 2010 2:01 PM
Eurostar services between the UK and Brussels have been suspended for a second day after two commuter trains crashed in Belgium killing eighteen people. The head-on collision, which happened on Monday, killed eighteen and injured almost 150 other people, 55 seriously. Eurostar cancelled its trains i...
February 16, 2010 11:37 AM
Saudi Arabia has cast doubts on the usefulness of imposing more sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. The Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said the threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions requires a more immediate solution. He was speaking at a news conference in Riyadh wit...
February 16, 2010 10:41 AM
EU Member-States on Monday decided to temporarily withdraw preferential tariff benefits to Sri Lanka under a special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance, known as GSP plus linking it to shortcomings in Sri Lanka's implementation of three UN Human Rights Convent...
February 16, 2010 10:41 AM
Greece has warned that last month's promise of European Union support might not be enough to stop its debt problem from undermining the single European currency, the EURO. As the Eurozone Finance Ministers began a meeting on the crisis in Brussels, the Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstant...
February 16, 2010 9:48 AM
The executive committee of the Partners in Population Development has decided to construct a permanent Secretariat building in Dhaka soon. Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad who chaired the meeting of the executive committee in Dhaka on Monday told AIR that the Bangladesh government has provided...
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