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October 31, 2009 7:02 PM

US to release its entire stock of children's Tamiflu antiviral

The United States will release its entire stock of children's Tamiflu antivirals as the pediatrics H1N1 flu toll spiked well above the annual toll for kids from seasonal flu. The Director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Thomas Frieden said until now, there have been 114 labor...

October 31, 2009 5:10 PM

Senior US officials to visit Myanmar

Two senior US officials will travel to Myanmar next week in the latest move by President Barack Obama's administration to engage the reclusive military regime. A State Department spokesman said Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy, Scot Ma...

October 31, 2009 5:10 PM

Earthquake measuring 5.6 on Richter scale rocks eastern Indonesia

An earthquake measuring 5.6 on Richter scale rocked Central Sulawesi, in eastern Indonesia, this morning. The Meteorology and Geophysics Agency in Jakarta said the quake struck at 07:14 a.m. Jakarta time with epicenter at 26 kilometers southwest Tolitoli of Central Sulawesi and at 10 kilometers in d...

October 31, 2009 5:09 PM

Seven Pakistani security men killed a roadside bomb blast

A roadside bomb today killed at least seven Pakistani security men in the country's Khyber tribal agency. Local officials said a convoy of the Frontier Constabulary was traveling from a fort when the bomb was detonated through a remote control at Sur Ghar area, bordering Afghanistan. Officials ...

October 31, 2009 2:30 PM

Palestinian Prez, US envoy meet to discuss Middle East peace talk

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and US envoy George Mitchell have met in the Abu Dhabi today to discuss the latest bid to revive Middle East peace talks. The chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said that both leaders discussed Mitchell's efforts to launch the peace process in the Middle...

October 31, 2009 1:50 PM

Bush favours UNSC seat for India

Former US President George W Bush today favoured a United Nations Security Council seat for India, saying it has arrived as a strong democratic country in the world. He also wanted India and the US to work together to win the war on terror in Afghanistan to bring peace and stability in the region. S...

October 31, 2009 1:13 PM

China overpoliticising my travels: Dalai Lama

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said today that China is overpoliticising his travels and claimed his decisions on where to go are spiritual in nature, not political. The Dalai Lama, on a visit to Tokyo, said he believed the Chinese Government saw him as a troublemaker and had read to...

October 31, 2009 1:04 PM

Rajapaksa returns after Nepal visit

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today returned home by a special plane after completing his three day visit to Nepal.<br/>Talking to reporters at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, President Rajapaksa said that he found Nepal's progress of the peace process rathe...

October 31, 2009 1:00 PM

No evidence of India’s involvement in Balochistan: US

The United States says it does not have any evidence of India's involvement in Balochistan amid Pakistan's allegation that New Delhi was fomenting trouble in the province. This was disclosed by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during her interaction with Pakistani editors in Lahore. ...

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