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September 21, 2009 12:53 PM
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has warned in a report that he needs more forces within the next year adding that without them, the eight-year conflict will likely result in failure. A copy of the 66-page confidential document obtained by the Washington Post said failure to gain the initiative...
September 21, 2009 12:53 PM
Sri Lanka together with the International Organization for Migration will launch a 23 million programme to rehabilitate former LTTE cadres into the mainstream society with the help of countries like US, UK and Japan. The end of the three decade long civil conflict saw more than 10,000 LTTE cadres wh...
September 21, 2009 12:53 PM
The World Health Organisation today said, the swine flu virus had not yet mutated into a more serious disease and the development of vaccines was proceeding on track. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said at the Hongkong Western Pacific meeting that the vaccines for (A) H1N1 influenza produced so ...
September 21, 2009 12:03 PM
US President Barack Obama will hold tri-nation talks on the Middle East peace process this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. The White House announced in a surprise move late Saturday, that Obama will meet separately with the two leaders tomorro...
September 21, 2009 11:46 AM
Pakistan's disgraced scientist A Q Khan has admitted his country's involvement in the nuclear programmes of Iran, North Korea and Libya. The Sunday Times newspaper of London reports, the 74-year-old Khan, dubbed as maestro of the world's largest nuclear black market, has made the revelation in ...
September 21, 2009 9:42 AM
Pakistan's disgraced scientist A.Q. Khan has admitted to his country's involvement in the nuclear programmes of Iran, North Korea and Libya. The Sunday Times newspaper of London reports that the 74-year-old Khan, who is dubbed as maestro of the world's largest nuclear black market, has mad...
September 21, 2009 9:12 AM
US President Barack Obama has rejected an appeal from the seven former directors of the CIA to abandon an investigation into allegation of prisoner abuses under the Bush Administration. The former chiefs have argued that the Justice Department risked discouraging CIA officers from undertaking the ki...
September 21, 2009 9:02 AM
Pakistan says, it is considering appointing a former diplomat as a special envoy for informal peace talks with India. Pakistani Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmud Qureshi said, former Foreign Secretary, Riaz Mohammed Khan, might be appointed for informal dialogue known as the back channel diplomacy. Howe...
September 21, 2009 9:02 AM
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said, Israel has assured him it has no plans to attack Iran militarily. In an interview to CNN TV, Mr. Medvedev said that the Israeli President Shimon Peres gave the assurance during a visit to Moscow at the end of August. At the same time, the Russian leader sa...
September 21, 2009 9:00 AM
Community leaders in Kenya have warned that country's worst drought for years is causing increasing violence between tribes. A single attack last week left more than thirty people dead when a group of raiders attacked a neighbouring community. The survivors believed it was part of a longstanding feu...
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