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December 5, 2009 9:48 AM
Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba has been re-elected for a second term after winning 76.4 per cent of the votes in last week's poll. Official results show that Mr Pohamba's governing Swapo party got 74 per cent of the Parliamentary vote maintaining its two-thirds majority. Eight of 1...
December 5, 2009 9:48 AM
Two passenger ferries have collided on the Nile river in northern Egypt with dozens of people missing. Emergency services said rescuers are searching for survivors and it is not clear if any bodies have been retrieved near the northern city of Rashid. One of the ferries reportedly broke in half and ...
December 5, 2009 9:47 AM
India has urged Sri Lanka to take pro-active and positive steps to bring about a political settlement to the ethnic issue in the island nation. Responding to a Calling Attention in the Lok Sabha, on the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka, the External Affairs Minister, Mr. S M Krishna expressed the hope ...
December 5, 2009 9:47 AM
The condition of Fazl Haque Qureshi, a senior leader of moderate faction of Hurriyat Conference, continues to be critical and he is on a ventilator. Mr. Qureshi was attacked by unidentified assailants when he was coming out of a Mosque in Soura, Srinagar. Hospital sources say, he has no bullet injur...
December 4, 2009 10:12 PM
Official figures show unemployment rate in the United States fell in November to 10 per cent from 10.2 per cent in October. <br/><br/>Employers in November cut the fewest number of jobs since the recession began in December 2007. 11,000 jobs were lost over the month, compared wit...
December 4, 2009 10:08 PM
In China, three more people have been sentenced to death for murder and other crimes committed in and after the July 5 riot in Urumqi. <br/><br/>Another one was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi. <br/><br/>The tri...
December 4, 2009 9:54 PM
More than 70 percent of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are now out of the relief centers in North and the government is close to achieving its target of resettling the entire IDP population within 180 days, said Mahinda Samarasinghe, Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights.<br...
December 4, 2009 9:44 PM
Khaleda Zia has been reelected chairperson of the BNP unopposed as there was no other candidate for the post.<br/><br/>BNP leader TH Khan, who acted as the chief election commissioner for the party's election declared that Khaleda Zia has been elected as chairperson for three yea...
December 4, 2009 7:14 PM
NATO says at least 7,000 extra troops will be sent to Afghanistan to support the US surge in that country.<br/><br/>Speaking at a summit in Brussels, Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said more troops would be send to the war-torn country. He said at least 25 countries...
December 4, 2009 7:14 PM
Iran has said that it will maintain membership in the Non-Proliferation Treaty adding that most of its cooperation with the IAEA has been over and above its obligations. According to Iran's channel Press TV, country's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters in Tehran that talks ...
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