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  • Google planning to operate wireless networks in African Asian markets using balloons

    Google is believed to be deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets, including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. An article in The Wall Street Journal said that the effort is part of a plan that could connect a billion or more new people to the internet. According to the article, Google is making efforts to build wireless networks ...

  • Pak could plunge into deeper chaos following US go-slow on drone strikes Report

    US President Barack Obama's landmark policy speech has hinted that the country is shifting its focus from Pakistan, possibly posing a risk for the South Asian country. Pakistan, perhaps even more than Afghanistan, has been the central focus of America's 12-year war on Islamist militancy. Now, drone strikes are dwindling, the war in Afghanistan is drawing to a close and the battle against ...

  • IPL spot-fixing tainted Pak umpire Rauf will fight to clear name says family

    Controversial Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf will fight to clear his name after he was called for questioning in the ongoing spot-fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League, according to family sources. The International Cricket Council (ICC) this week withdrew Rauf from next month's Champions Trophy in England in the wake of media reports that he was under police investigation, Sport24 ...

  • Hezbollah Chief Confirms Fighting in Syria

    The chief of Lebanon's Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah's fighting presence in Syria. The speech was ...

  • US Defense Chief Calls for End to Military Sex Assaults

    U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called for an end to sexual assaults in the military Saturday in a commencement speech to graduates of the West Point military academy in New York state. Hagel called sexual harassment and sexual assault in the military a "profound betrayal" of sacred oaths and trusts and a "scourge" that must be stamped out. A day earlier, President Barack Obama ...


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Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

Talk to Her (Hable con ella)

For more than a decade, Spanish writer/director Pedro Almodvar has specialized in making the bizarre poignant, and in Talk to Her (Hable con ella), he has developed his most richly satisfying and deeply felt work without sacrificing the unique edge that makes it impossible not to talk about his films afterwards. Romance in the cinema is all too often routine, predictable; Almodvars ... ...

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  • Maoists Attack India Congress Party Convoy

    Police say suspected Maoist rebels have attacked a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 16 people and wounding many others. Suspected insurgents fired at the vehicles on Saturday in the Sukma area of Chhattisgarh state. View Larger Map Local reports say some senior party leaders were among ...

  • Russia Cracks Down on Gay Activism

    Russian police arrested at least 30 gay rights activists and their opponents in the capital, Moscow, Saturday, enforcing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations. The arrests coincided with the first-ever gay rights rally in neighboring Ukraine, which was allowed by authorities and protected by police. The demonstrators in Russia gathered in front of the nation's lower house of ...

  • Leadership Questions Could Hamper Syria Peace Talks

    ISTANBUL Next month's Washington - Moscow talks to end the Syrian conflict appear in doubt. The Syrian opposition, at a meeting in Istanbul, remains divided on electing new leadership and it is still unclear if the opposition will attend the talks. Western backers of the opposition are pushing for a broader and more diverse leadership. But attempts to weaken the power of the Islamist ...

  • French Soldier Attacked Near Paris

    A man wielding a knife or box cutter has stabbed a French soldier in the neck near Paris. Police union spokesman Christophe Crepin released a description of the suspect to the public Saturday. ''We know that he is tall, athletic, we think he was wearing a white tunic and sneakers. Things are evolving, in any case everything has been recorded on video and we will find him.'' French ...

  • African Leaders Condemn Ongoing Use of Cluster Bombs

    Thirty-six African countries have formally condemned the use of cluster bombs and urged all of Africa to join a global ban on the deadly weapons. Delegates at a conference in Lome, Togo say they are gravely concerned about the ongoing use of cluster munitions and the mounting number of victims, including women and children. They say 14 African countries have a cluster bomb problem, ...

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