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September 25, 2009 9:10 AM
The United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) says that more than 20 million people in the Horn of Africa need food aid because of two years of poor rainfall. The body says cuts in its funding have made it more difficult to feed people across Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland, Eritrea, Djibouti and E...
September 25, 2009 8:53 AM
According to Somali officials, the Somali pirates have boarded a ship heading for Mogadishu harbour and killed its Syrian captain. Official sources said the captain had refused the pirates' demand to turn the ship away from the port. Three crew members were also reportedly injured in the violen...
September 25, 2009 8:51 AM
A US drone attack has killed 10 militants from a network fighting Western troops in Afghanistan at their compound in Pakistan's tribal belt. Officials said, the strike from a suspected US spy plane yesterday was the fourth this month in North Waziristan, where militants linked to Taliban and Al...
September 25, 2009 8:51 AM
US President Barack Obama has said that violent extremists within Pakistan pose a threat to the region and America. Addressing a meeting of Friends of Democratic Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York, he said success against extremism in Pakistan will require a sustained and expanded commitmen...
September 25, 2009 5:52 AM
The US Senate has unanimously passed the revised version of the Kerry-Lugar bill which triples non-military aid to Pakistan to 1.5 billion US Dollar per annum. An identical version of the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives and is expected to be passed any time now. The announcement ...
September 25, 2009 5:49 AM
Ahead of two key bilateral meetings in New York, Pakistan today sought more time to investigate the role of detained JuD chief Hafiz Mohd Saeed in the Mumbai terror attacks. Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik in an interview to a television channel claimed that India has so far provided ...
September 25, 2009 5:31 AM
US President Barack Obama has said that violent extremists within Pakistan pose a threat to the region and America. Addressing a meeting of Friends of Democratic Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York, he said success against extremism in Pakistan will require a sustained and expanded commitmen...
September 25, 2009 5:27 AM
In Pakistan, at least 20 people, including nine members of a pro-government militia and as many militants, were killed and several others injured in fierce clashes yesterday. Militants ambushed a convoy of pro-government tribal elders at Janikhel in Bannu district of North West Frontier Province whe...
September 25, 2009 5:27 AM
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed US plans to engage diplomatically with the country's military rulers. This was stated by Suu Kyi's lawyer Nyann Win in Yangon yesterday. The Pro-democracy leader's comments came a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rai...
September 24, 2009 11:47 PM
The US President Mr. Barack Obama told the UN Security Council today that the next year will be critical for the global effort to control nuclear weapons.<br/><br/>President Obama spoke minutes after the 15-member council unanimously approved a US-drafted resolution calling on nu...
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