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  • Malala denounces cowardly attack on female students bus in Pakistan

    Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls' education, has denounced an attack on a bus carrying female students in Quetta as 'cowardly'. At least 25 people were killed on Saturday when militants blew up the bus in Quetta and then stormed a hospital where survivors had been taken for treatment. According to Fox News, the 15-year-old said the attack ...

  • Lankans drive out Aussies out of Champions Trophy with 20-run victory

    Australia's trouble-plagued campaign of the ICC Champions Trophy had come to an end after they were defeated for 20 runs by Sri Lanka at The Oval on Monday. Sri Lanka, who needed a win to remain in the competition, rode on aggressive half-centuries from Mahela Jayawardene and Lahiru Thirimanne to score 253-8 after being sent in to bat, bowling out the Australians for 233 in 42.3 overs, ...

  • MERS Coronavirus Kills Four More in Saudi Arabia

    DUBAI Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the four deaths were among previously registered cases. The new infections were in Eastern Province, in the capital Riyadh and in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Saudi Arabia has been the country ...

  • Syria Conflict Exposes Old Rivalries at G8 Summit

    LONDON World leaders gathering at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland have been discussing how to end the Syrian conflict - and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been defending his support for Syrian leader Bashar al Assad, despite criticism from the his G8 counterparts. Intense gun battles rage in the heart of Damascus and Aleppo on the same day that G8 leaders gather in Northern ...

  • Five missing over 50 houses swept away in western Nepal

    At least five people were missing and 65 families rendered homeless after floods and landslides, triggered by incessant rainfall over three days, hit the remote far western part of Nepal, officials said Monday. Normal life was hit in some districts of the region after the swollen Mahakali river (known as Sharda in India) inundated homes, as well as sweeping away habitations and government ...


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No End in Sight

No End in Sight

While there currently appears to be no end in sight for U.S. involvement in Iraq, the irony of the title of Charles Ferguson's sober-eyed documentary is that it didn't necessarily have to be that way. While the film doesn't offer any solutions to what can only be described as a mili ... ...

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  • Junior Indian wrestlers win 17 medals at Asian championship

    Junior Indian wrestlers won a rich haul of medals at the recently concluded Asian Junior Championships here. The grapplers won in freestyle, greco-roman and female categories in the tourney held June 12-16. The freestyle team won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals and also took the overall team championship. The girls team won two silver and three bronze medals while the greco-roman ...

  • Tamil Tiger fronts operate in Germany Sri Lanka

    The Tamil Tiger rebel front organisations are still operating in Germany under the guise of community organisations, the Sri Lankan external affairs ministry claimed Monday. External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris, during a discussion he had in Berlin with the German Minister of Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle, said that according to information available to Sri Lankan authorities, there are a ...

  • Former Pak bowling coach says CT defeat doesnt warrant pressing panic button

    Former Pakistan bowling coach Aqib Javed has said that despite the team's heartbreaking performance in the series, it was not a panic situation at all and instead sensible decisions are required by the board. Aqib shared the nation's disappointment with the team's performance but said that selectors or the board should not opt for wholesale changes after former players demanded massive overhaul ...

  • Pak coach blames batsmen for Champions Trophy defeat

    Pakistan coach Dave Whatmore has blamed the team's batsmen for their poor performance, which led the team to its defeat in the Champions Trophy. Whatmore said that the practice matches were good but the team made mistakes, which it needs to rectify adding that despite the team knew of the conditions at The Oval, it failed to take advantage, The Nation reports. According to the report, blaming ...

  • TTP demands protection money from Pakistani businessmen to sustain jihad

    The Pakistani Taliban has reportedly asked two local businessmen to pay 'protection money' to help militants carry out 'jihad'. A senior police official told Dawn News that the chief executive of an Islamabad-based business establishment had received four letters allegedly from the head of the banned organization Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) 'finance wing'. The businessman has been asked ...

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