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December 9, 2009 10:04 AM

Tarique Rehman elected Vice-Pof ruling BNP

In Bangladesh, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's son Tarique Rehman has been elected as senior vice-chairman of the Bangladesh National Party by the party's National Council on Tuesday at Dhaka. Election of Tarique, Khaleda's elder son who is currently in London undergoing treatment, came soon afte...

December 9, 2009 10:04 AM

US expects modest increase in employment

In U.S, according to a widely-watched employment outlook survey, the employers anticipate a modest increase in hiring plans for the first three months of 2010. Polling more than 28,000 U.S. employers, Manpower, Inc. one of the largest U.S. employment services found 12 percent expect to add jobs duri...

December 9, 2009 10:01 AM

EU Foreign ministers support division of Jerusalem between Israel & Palestine

European Foreign Ministers have declared their support for the division of Jerusalem, saying that a way should be found to make Jerusalem the shared capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state. The meeting adopted a text stating that Jerusalem should provide the future capital of the two s...

December 9, 2009 9:44 AM

Honduras Drug lord shot dead

Gunmen in Honduras have shot dead the head of the country's anti-drug trafficking operations. Police said retired Gen Julian Aristides Gonzalez was travelling in a car in the capital, Tegucigalpa when attackers on a motorcycle opened fire. Honduras is a major route for drugs smuggled from South...

December 9, 2009 9:43 AM

127 killed, over 400 injured in serial blasts in Baghdad

In Iraq, 127 people have been killed and more than 400, others wounded in a series of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Tuesday. According to Iraq's interior ministry, two car bombs exploded near the labour and interior ministries and a suicide attacker driving a car struck a police pa...

December 8, 2009 11:11 PM

Kuwaitai Parliament approves GCC Monetary Union agreement

The Kuwaiti Parliament has unanimously approved the Monetary Union agreement of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) and referred it to the government.<br/><br/>According to Kuwait's official news agency KUNA, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Dr. Mohammad Sabah...

December 8, 2009 11:10 PM

Karzai says Afghan Army need US, Intl community help for next15 yrs

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has warned that it will take 15 years before it is able to pay for the costs of maintaining its own security forces.<br/><br/>After talks with visiting US Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Mr Karzai said he hoped the US and the international community ...

December 8, 2009 11:03 PM

US Envoy arrives in N Korea to revive negotiations on N-weapons

The United States Envoy Stephen Bosworth has arrived in North Korea to revive the stalled negotiations on its nuclear weapons programme. <br/><br/>His visit is the first high level contact between the Obama administration and the North Korean regime. <br/><br/&#062...

December 8, 2009 11:03 PM

Blasts toll rises to 54 in Pakistan's Lahore

The death toll in a twin suicide bombing in this eastern Pakistani city rose to 54 on Tuesday, with more persons succumbing to their injuries and bodies being dug out of the rubble of a commercial hub that was the target of the attack.<br/><br/>Thirteen women and seven children w...

December 8, 2009 9:48 PM

Blake satisfied over resettlement of civilians in Sri Lanka

Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia and Central Asia and former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Robert Blake on Tuesday expressed satisfaction with the government's resettlement programme which is underway and the new freedom of movement allowed and said that he was pleased with the mine risk ed...

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