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September 26, 2009 10:58 AM

‘Foreign Secretary’s silence on attacks on Iranians is shameful’

A Labour peer has accused U.S Foreign Secretary David Miliband of maintaining a shameful silence on attacks on Iranian dissidents at a camp in Iraq. British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom Chairman Lord Corbett hit out in a strongly-worded open letter. More than three thousand people live i...

September 26, 2009 10:58 AM

Five men arrested in Mexico

Five men accused of carrying out dozens of reprisal killings for one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels, the Sinaloa, have been arrested. Police said the men were behind two separate attacks earlier this month at drugs rehabilitation centres in the northern city of Ciudad Juarez. In total, ...

September 26, 2009 10:53 AM

World leaders united to prevent global financial crisis: Obama

The U.S President Barack Obama has said the world's leading nations have agreed tough new regulations to prevent another global financial crisis. The G20 group of leading and emerging economies will become a permanent body co-ordinating the world economy. Global leaders also announced a deal to...

September 26, 2009 10:53 AM

UNSC condemns Honduran Interim authorities

The U.N Security Council has condemned, what it describes, as acts of intimidation by the Honduran Interim authorities against the Brazilian embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa. Honduran troops have been surrounding the building since Monday when the country's deposed President Manuel Zelaya sou...

September 26, 2009 10:53 AM

Three Palestinian militants killed

According to officials sources, three Palestinian militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip. A military spokesman said the men were members of the militant group Islamic Jihad and were behind recent rocket attacks in the border town of Sderot. The spokesman said they were...

September 26, 2009 10:52 AM

Russia cancels plan to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad

<br/>Russia has cancelled its plans to deploy missiles in its enclave of Kaliningrad in response to the US decision not to base missile defence in Europe.<br/><br/>After the G-20 summit, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said we would site Iskander missiles in response ...

September 26, 2009 10:52 AM

GPs in England are to get speedier access to diagnostic tests

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will pledge that GPs in England are to get speedier access to diagnostic tests to help spot less clear-cut cancer cases. Patients will get key tests within two weeks of seeing their GP, he will tell the Labour Party conference on Tuesday. It will mean faster r...

September 26, 2009 1:14 AM

Pak wants peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues with India

<br/>President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday said Pakistan is looking forward to the resumption of Composite Dialogue with India and sought a peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues, including Kashmir. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in the United Nations, Zardari said Pa...

September 26, 2009 1:08 AM

UN representative visits military run detention camps in Sri Lanka

A UN human rights expert on Friday visited Sri Lanka's military-run detention camps where nearly 300,000 war-displaced civilians have been held since the country's civil war ended four months ago. Sulakshani Perera, spokeswoman for the UN's refugee agency said in Colombo that Walter K...

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