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September 16, 2009 8:02 PM
Three US servicemen have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. A Nato spokesman said the deaths occurred yesterday. He did not release any other details. The latest deaths come as the Taliban intensifies its attacks against coalition forces in the south through roadside bombs and a...
September 16, 2009 8:01 PM
India has designed a new version of Advanced Heavy Water Reactor which will use low enriched uranium along with thorium as fuel. Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar announced this in Vienna today.br/br/Speaking at the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference he sai...
September 16, 2009 8:00 PM
Iran will not tolerate threats from world powers when they discuss Tehran's package of nuclear proposals on October 1. Ali Akbar Javanfekr, media advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also said accepting the Islamic republic as a nuclear power was the first step towards normalizing relation...
September 16, 2009 7:39 PM
In Lebanon, Saad Hariri has again been designated as country's next Prime Minister. According to Lebanon's official news agency, Lebanese President, General Michel Sleiman, after consulting House Speaker, Nabih Berri, designated Saad Hariri to form the imminent Cabinet. Earlier seventy-three Lebanes...
September 16, 2009 6:49 PM
The number of people out of work in the UK has risen to its highest level in 14 years. The Office for National Statistics said unemployment increased by 210,000 to 2.47 million in the three months to July, taking the jobless rate to 7.9 per cent. Claims for unemployment benefit in August grew by 24,...
September 16, 2009 6:49 PM
Pakistan's military says it has arrested another important Taliban leader in troubled Swat district. Military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said Sher Mohammad Qasab, the militant commander in the Charbagh area, was taken into custody today after an army operation. He is the latest Taliban...
September 16, 2009 6:30 PM
The UN Security Council has extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia by one year. The News Agency of Nigeria today said thee extension followed the unanimous adoption of a resolution on the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). It said the 15-member council authorized the pe...
September 16, 2009 5:40 PM
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso today won support of the European Parliament for his second five-year term. The 736-seat assembly voted 382-219 with 117 abstentions to elect Barroso as president of the new commission, giving him a much-needed absolute majority. The election of the ...
September 16, 2009 5:26 PM
Armed with the NSG waiver, India is set to join an elite nuclear research centre in Russia set up by the former Soviet bloc countries. Chairman of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Council Prof. CNR Rao said in Moscow that India will become a member of the Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear ...
September 16, 2009 4:43 PM
In Russia, a suicide bomb blast injured six people in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya today. Police said a woman suicide bomber detonated an explosive near a traffic police car at a busy crossroads in central Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, injuring six people. The police source earlier sai...
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