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November 20, 2009 12:48 PM
The American Defence Secretary, Robert Gates has ordered an investigation into whether the military missed warning signs about the behaviour of the Army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan accused of shooting dead thirteen people of the Fort Hood military base earlier this month. Mr. Gates said a former ...
November 20, 2009 12:47 PM
Major World Powers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss fresh developments over Iran's nuclear programme. Iran has rejected a proposed UN brokered deal to send more than seventy percent of its stock of low enriched uranium abroad.<br/>
November 20, 2009 12:47 PM
Ceremonies are taking place around the world to mark the 20th anniversary of a landmark agreement protecting children. The UN says the Convention on the Rights of the Child has transformed the way children are treated. But it says a billion children in the world still go without food, shelter or hea...
November 20, 2009 12:45 PM
The US is said to have reopened the investigation into the Watergate saga, the biggest political scandal in the country's history. The scandal forced the then President Richard Nixon to step down 35 years ago.Forensic investigators have now been called in to investigate exactly what Nixon knew ...
November 20, 2009 12:44 PM
UN chief Ban Ki-moon asked parliamentarians across the globe not to allow the global economic crisis to be an excuse for cutting aid to the world's poorest people. Noting that one hundred million people could fall into poverty by the end of this year Ban said the impact of the economic and fina...
November 20, 2009 10:45 AM
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there is cross border fertilisation of terrorism in Pakistan from Afghanistan and the US would continue to press Islamabad to go after extremism in the country. In an interview to a private radio, she said Afghanistan cannot get control over its territo...
November 20, 2009 10:18 AM
Even as Sri Lanka awaits a formal announcement on dates for a Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the leader of the newly-floated 18-party United National Front (UNF), Ranil Wickremesinghe has advocated switch over from the present Presidential to a model akin to the Indian system.<br/�...
November 20, 2009 10:14 AM
Even as Sri Lanka awaits a formal announcement on dates for a Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the leader of the newly-floated 18-party United National Front (UNF), Ranil Wickremesinghe has advocated switch over from the present Presidential to a model akin to the Indian system.<br/�...
November 20, 2009 10:12 AM
In Pakistan, two policeman were killed and seven injured when unidentified assailants targeted a police vehicle with a bomb in the northwestern city last night, hours after a suicide attack on a court complex killed 19 people.<br/>Police officials said a police van on routine patrol in the...
November 20, 2009 10:11 AM
Thirty-four years after Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in a military coup, the country's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on five of his killers. Pronouncing the verdict after a trial that dragged on for 13 years, Justice M Tafazzal Islam, who headed...
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