Saturday, January 1, 2011

Indo-Pak dialogue only way forward: Gilani

Indo-Pak dialogue only way forward: Gilani

Indo-Pak dialogue only way forward: Gilani

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Dialogue is the only way to resolve outstanding issues between Pakistan and India as both countries cannot afford to fight wars, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said.


Police confirm first fatality in Australian floods

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Australian police have recovered the body of a woman whose car was swept from the road in heavy flooding in the country's northeast, the first fatality in the disaster.


Zardari signs bill to minimise Govt-Judiciary clash

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Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari gave his formal assent to the 19th Constitutional Amendment Bill which changes the process for appointments in Pakistans superior judiciary and is aimed at resolving differences between the judiciary and the executive. Zardari described the amendment as "a New Year's gift of democracy" for the country.


Russian passenger jet explodes; 4 dead, 43 injured

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A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded on Saturday, killing four people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said. Most of the passengers and crew were evacuated before the explosion, though people on board described a chaotic scene as the burning plane filled with thick, black smoke and panicked passengers climbed over one another to rush through flames to escape.


Arnold Schwarzenegger to step down as California Governor

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The Terminator always said he'd be back. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is sifting through a stack of corporate, Hollywood and real estate offers as the celebrity politician nears an inevitable career crossroad: On Monday, he's out of a job.


US Capitol briefly evacuated by airspace violation

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Authorities say the US Capitol and surrounding buildings were evacuated and fighter jets were scrambled after an airliner flying into Washington's Reagan airport went out of radio contact.


Dilma Rousseff sworn in as Brazil's first female President

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Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's first female president on Saturday, pledging to build on the policies of her hugely popular predecessor and mentor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.


Sun Yat-sen's granddaughter injured in car accident

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A doctor has said that Nora Sun, a former US trade consul and granddaughter of founder of Asia's first republic in China, has been critically injured in a car accident in Taiwan.


Russian passenger jet explodes; 1 dead, 10 injured

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A Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 10, officials said. The rest of the passengers and crew were safely evacuated before the explosion in the Western Siberian oil town of Surgut.


Egypt: Blast in Alexandria, 21 killed

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A car exploded in front of a Coptic Christian church as worshippers emerged from a New Year's Mass in the Egyptian city of Alexandria early on Saturday, killing at least seven people, officials said. After the blast, enraged Christians emerging from the church clashed with police and stormed a nearby mosque, prompting fights and volleys of stone throwing with Muslims, police and witnesses said - a sign of the sectarian anger that has been arising with greater frequency in Egypt.


North Korea: Want to improve ties with South

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North Korea welcomed the new year on Saturday with a push for better ties with rival South Korea, warning that war "will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust." Despite calls in its annual New Year's message for a Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons, the North, which has conducted two nuclear tests since 2006, also said its military was ready for "prompt, merciless and annihilatory action" against its enemies.


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