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October 16, 2009 12:47 PM

Irina Bokova elected Director General of UNESCO?

<br/>Bulgaria's diplomat Irina Bokova will be the new Director General of UNESCO. Her appointment was officially confirmed at the 193-member UNESCO General Assembly meeting in Paris late yesterday. She will be the first woman to lead UNESCO. Bokova, 57, defeated Egyptian Culture Minis...

October 16, 2009 10:27 AM

Obama signs into law USD 7.5 billion Pak aid bill?

<br/>US President Barack Obama has signed into law a $7.5bn aid package for Pakistan, after fears it might impinge on Pakistani sovereignty were eased. It follows meetings between the bill's authors, Democrats John Kerry and Howard Berman, and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Q...

October 16, 2009 10:26 AM

Six militants arrested in Pakistan

In Pakistan, authorities have arrested at least six suspected militants in Karachi in connection with the recent terror attacks in Lahore and Peshawar. According to Police, the intelligence and security agencies picked up four persons from a private hospital from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the sout...

October 16, 2009 5:16 AM

India not for destabilising its neighbors: Tharoor

India says, it has no role in insurgency in Pakistan's Balochistan province, saying it does not follow the policy of destabilising its neighbours. Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said in New York that there is a great difference to the Indian approach to neighbourhood poli...

October 16, 2009 1:01 AM

No plans for pullout from Afghanistan:White House

The White House has categorically ruled out that the US is planning to leave Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told this to reporters at his daily press briefing. Gibbs said Obama held his fifth situation room meeting today at the White House, which lasted for more than three hou...

October 16, 2009 1:00 AM

No plans for pullout from Afghanistan

The White House has categorically ruled out that the US is planning to leave Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told this to reporters at his daily press briefing. Gibbs said Obama held his fifth situation room meeting today at the White House, which lasted for more than three hou...

October 16, 2009 12:59 AM

No plans for pull out from Afghanistan

The White House has categorically ruled out that the US is planning to leave Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told this to reporters at his daily press briefing. Gibbs said Obama held his fifth situation room meeting today at the White House, which lasted for more than three hou...

October 16, 2009 12:42 AM

No plans to leave Afghanistan: White House

The White House has categorically ruled out that the US is planning to leave Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told this to reporters at his daily press briefing. Gibbs said Obama held his fifth situation room meeting today at the White House, which lasted for more than three hou...

October 16, 2009 12:17 AM

UN human rights official backs Gaza war crimes report

The UN's top human rights official has backed a report accusing Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter. Navi Pillay's endorsement of the report by an expert group led by Judge Richard Goldstone came as Israel warned the UN Human Rig...

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