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December 12, 2009 12:04 PM

Cooperate with US to finish Al Queda: Obama to Pak

US President Barack Obama has said that Pakistan must cooperate fully with the United States to go after and wipe out the Al-Qaeda. Speaking to the CBS channel, Obama termed the tribal territories between Afghanistan and Pakistan as the epicenter of violent extremism directed against the West and th...

December 12, 2009 11:52 AM

Indian gets 57 months in imprisonment for hate message

In United States, the IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for posting hate messages in 2006 to the then President George W Bush. The 38-year old Phd student of Purdue University, Buddhi, arrested in 2006, was sentenced by senior J...

December 12, 2009 9:13 AM

57 months imprisonment for hate message to Bush

In the US, IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for posting hate messages in 2006 to the then President George W Bush. The 38-year old Phd student of Purdue University, Buddhi, who was arrested in 2006, was sentenced by senior Judg...

December 12, 2009 9:11 AM

Joint oil contract for Shell, Petronas

In Iraq, Britain's Shell and Malaysian firm Petronas have been awarded a joint contract to exploit Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field. This was disclosed by official Iraqi national news agency today. Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said that the price that the consortium offere...

December 12, 2009 9:11 AM

57 months imprisonment for hate message to Bush

In the US, IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for posting hate messages in 2006 to the then President George W Bush. The 38-year old Phd student of Purdue University, Buddhi, who was arrested in 2006, was sentenced by senior Judg...

December 12, 2009 9:02 AM

Small nations open new front at climate meet

New Delhi says that the proposals by some small island nations at the Copenhagen summit amount to bracket together rich countries and developing nations. Reacting to the proposals by the Alliance of Small Island States, Environment Secretary Vijay Sharma said in Copenhagen that it will weaken the le...

December 11, 2009 9:38 PM

US senators agree on a framework for climate change bill

In US, a bipartisan group of powerful Senators on Friday agreed on a framework for a climate change bill. Speaking to reporters in a news conference in Washington, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee said that US will send a strong message to the world gathering at Copenhagen that the US ...

December 11, 2009 9:38 PM

Too premature to talk about Headley’s extradition to India: US

The United States today said that it was too premature to talk about the extradition of Pakistani-origin American David Coleman Headley, charged with criminal conspiracy in the 26/11 terror attacks, to India. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, Mr. P J Crowley was responding to a questi...

December 11, 2009 8:02 PM

Oil firms awarded Iraq contract

In Iraq, Britain's Shell and Malaysian firm Petronas have been awarded a joint contract to exploit Iraq's giant Majnoon oil field. This was disclosed by official Iraqi national news agency today. Iraq's oil minister Hussein al-Shahristani said that the price that the consortium offere...

December 11, 2009 7:04 PM

US house imposed restrictions on US military assistance to Lanka

A bill passed by the US House of Representative today imposed restrictions on US military assistance to Sri Lanka and sought a report from the Secretary of State on the alleged crime against humanity during the last phase of the 30-year-old civil war there.A section in the Bill, which deals with US ...

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