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October 21, 2009 5:48 PM

Microsoft set to release Windows 7

Microsoft is scheduled to release Windows 7 to the world tomorrow. Early reviews praise Windows 7 for being everything the previous generation operating system Windows Vista should have been. Windows 7 features winning raves include enabling computers, television, radios, digital picture frames and ...

October 21, 2009 5:46 PM

Kuwaiti women can now travel without husband’s consent

Kuwaiti women will be able to obtain their own passport without the consent of their husbands, following a ruling by the country's constitutional court. The court, whose decisions are final, said the previous requirement was in violation of guarantees of freedom and gender equality in the const...

October 21, 2009 5:45 PM

US drone attack kills three in North Waziristan

At least three persons were killed today in a US drone attack in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan. The drone struck at Miranshah, one of the main towns of North Waziristan. The identity of the three persons killed in the attack could not immediately be ascertained...

October 21, 2009 5:05 PM

UN food centres closed in Northwest Pakistan

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) today closed distribution centers serving more than two million people in northwest Pakistan over security fears. The move affecting the Swat Valley region comes after a suicide bomber attacked a WFP compound in the capital Islamabad, killing five ai...

October 21, 2009 4:48 PM

UN food centres closed in Northwest PakistanNews Heading

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) today closed distribution centers serving more than two million people in northwest Pakistan over security fears. The move affecting the Swat Valley region comes after a suicide bomber attacked a WFP compound in the capital Islamabad, killing five ai...

October 21, 2009 4:48 PM

International UN food centres closed in Northwest PakistanNews Heading

The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) today closed distribution centers serving more than two million people in northwest Pakistan over security fears. The move affecting the Swat Valley region comes after a suicide bomber attacked a WFP compound in the capital Islamabad, killing five ai...

October 21, 2009 4:45 PM

IRGC waiting for orders to attack terrorist base in Pakistan

Iran's Revolution Guards Ground Force Commander, Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour has urged Iranian officials to issue the required orders for his troops to attack the Jundollah terrorist group in Pakistan.<br/><br/>Talking to Iran's FARS news agency Pakpour said that Jundullah...

October 21, 2009 1:30 PM

400 terror suspects arrested in Lahore

Pakistani law enforcement agencies today launched a massive crackdown in neighbourhoods of Lahore and took over 400 people into custody. Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Chaudhry Shafiq Ahmed told PTI officials said raids are being carried out on the basis of specific and general informa...

October 21, 2009 12:45 PM

Nonproliferation panel agrees on nuke reduction action plans

An international nuclear nonproliferation panel has reached an agreement on its nuclear arms reduction action plans toward a world free of nuclear weapons. This was stated by the co-chairs of the panel, at the final session of its three-day meeting in Hiroshima. The International Commission onNuclea...

October 21, 2009 12:42 PM

Obama thanks Karzai for run off in Afghan election?

US President Barack Obama today thanked his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai on his agreeing to stand for a run-off in elections in Afghanistan. Obama told White House reporters at joint media briefing with the visiting Iraqi Prime Minister of Iraq Noori al-Maliki that it would be a step towards form...

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