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February 2, 2010 8:19 PM
US President Barack Obama will travel with his family to his childhood home of Indonesia and go on to Australia in the second half of next month.<br/><br/>Announcing the trip, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the visit is an important part of the president's continuin...
February 2, 2010 6:50 PM
Political parties in Nepal have set in motion a key process to end the deadlock that has stalled the 2006 peace process. Reports say, the Maoists have asked former Prime Minister G P Koirala to take the initiative to put in place a new coalition government.Maoist supremo Prachanda raised the issue o...
February 2, 2010 6:50 PM
The UN's World Food Programme says the number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million. A minister said this amounted to about half the total population.<br/><br/>The WFP says the huge surge has been caused by increasing co...
February 2, 2010 6:06 PM
A year after Kilinochchi was liberated from the LTTE, the Sri Lankan Army today started the process of resettling Tamil civilians displaced due to the war in the former de-facto capital of the Tamil Tigers.<br/><br/>In the first phase, 1200 civilians, who have been living in seve...
February 2, 2010 5:38 PM
Taking note of India's growing influence in global affairs, the US has said the country will be a net provider of security in the Indian Ocean and beyond with the growth of its military capabilities. <br/><br/>A defence review in Washington said, the distribution of global p...
February 2, 2010 5:38 PM
Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the frontal outfit of Lashkar-e-Toiba has stepped up its activities and unveiled plans to hold major conferences of Pakistani jehadi groups on Kashmir this week.<br/><br/>The conference organised in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir capital Muzaffarabad on Thursday is ex...
February 2, 2010 5:28 PM
Defeated opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka says he never tried to stage a coup to unseat President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The comments came a day after Sri Lanka sacked 12 senior military officers, reportedly loyal to the former army chief, for hatching a political conspiracy during the polls....
February 2, 2010 5:28 PM
US airline Continental and five individuals are to go on trial in France over the crash of an Air France Concorde nearly 10 years ago. The trial, in Pontoise, near Paris, is expected to last four months. As well as Continental, five individuals are being prosecuted. <br/><br/>Tho...
February 2, 2010 5:28 PM
New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report accusing Cambodian authorities of locking up and torturing thousands of people in drug detention centres. The human rights group says many of the detainees are children and that they suffer abuses such as rape and electric shocks. <b...
February 2, 2010 3:31 PM
The Bangladesh Supreme Court has dismissed two leave-to-appeal petitions against a High Court verdict that had declared illegal and unconstitutional the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.The six-member bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, pronounced the order...
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