Thursday, May 3, 2012

China to issue passports with electronic chips

China to issue passports with electronic chips


China to issue passports with electronic chips

Posted: 03 May 2012 10:27 PM PDT

China will start issuing a new type of passport with an electronic chip that will contain a record of cardholder's personal informations.The new passports will look like the traditional ones but a chi...


Dissident's plea for protection from China deepens crisis

Posted: 03 May 2012 10:21 PM PDT

The Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng's abrupt reversal and plea for protection from the United States has deepened a diplomatic crisis and exposed the Obama administration to withering criticism that...


Pakistan suicide attack kills 16: officials

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:58 PM PDT

A suicide attack targeting police on Friday killed at least 16 people, including five policemen, in Pakistan's Northwestern tribal district along the Afghan border, officials said.The targets of the a...


Libya funded Sarkozy's 2007 campaign: ex-Libya PM's lawyers

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:49 PM PDT

Moamer Gaddafi's regime funded Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 poll campaign, lawyers for former Libyan premier Baghdadi al-Mahmudi said, as the French President dismissed it as a ploy to derail his bid for re...


Air India slapped with a fine of $80,000

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:26 PM PDT

The US Transportation Department has slapped a fine of $80,000 on Air India for failing to post customer service, tarmac delay contingency plans on its website and adequately inform passengers about i...


9/11 mastermind, co-plotters to be arraigned

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:49 PM PDT

The self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four co-accused will be formally arraigned on Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, a last step before a long-awaited trial after years of legal delays.Befo...


Russia threatens pre-emptive strike on NATO missile defense shields

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:09 PM PDT

Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on US-led NATO missile defense facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build...


Twin blasts kill 15 in Russia's Caucasus region

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:33 PM PDT

Two blasts near a police post late on Thursday killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 20 in Dagestan, part of Russia's restive Caucasus region, the interior ministry said."At least 15 people ...


Nepal Cabinet resigns, new national coalition government to be formed

Posted: 03 May 2012 12:11 PM PDT

All ministers in Nepal Cabinet resigned en masse tonight as part of a power sharing deal. The move is last ditch attempt to pave way for the formation of a national consensus government to resolve the...


Olympics 2012: Missiles deployed in London park

Posted: 03 May 2012 11:33 AM PDT

British military chiefs said they hoped the deployment of surface-to-air missiles in a London park on Thursday would "allay people's fears" as the armed forces geared up for the 2012 Olympic Games.


US fighter jet crashes in United Arab Emirates

Posted: 03 May 2012 10:48 AM PDT

A US fighter jet crashed on Thursday during a training mission in the United Arab Emirates, a US official said, but no one was hurt.


Yoga for jets: Why plane makers prefer bent wingtips

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:23 AM PDT

There are, so the industry saying goes, only three secrets in the commercial airplane business: the selling price, the production cost and the shape of the wing. Boeing and Airbus are testing that pro...


Riot-hit London neighborhood turns to Cinema

Posted: 03 May 2012 09:16 AM PDT

Isaac Densu lives in Broadwater Farm, a large, concrete public housing project in Tottenham, the gritty district where last year's British riots began. Unemployment is high and young people face many ...

Hillary Clinton looking forward to meet 'dynamic' Mamata

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:29 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may press the case for India's stalled policy to open its supermarket sector to foreign chains when she meets its most powerful critic: Mamata Banerjee, the fie...


Osama documents released: He worried about Muslim casualties

Posted: 03 May 2012 08:09 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden worried about Al-Qaeda attacks causing "unnecessary" Muslim casualties and advised his deputies to take more care to spare civilian lives, he wrote in a May 2010 letter published onlin...


Al Qaeda rifts seen in documents found in bin Laden hideout

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:48 AM PDT

The senior leadership of Al Qaeda was riven with divisive debates about tactics, strategy and even marketing in the months leading up to the raid that killed its leader, Osama bin Laden, a year ago, a...


Italy's former premier Giulio Andreotti hospitalised

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:40 AM PDT

Rome hospital officials say Giulio Andreotti, Italy's former seven-time premier, is in serious but stable condition after suffering heart problems. The Policlinico Gemelli hospital says 93-year-old An...

New rules make it easier for NRIs to use Right to Information Act

Posted: 03 May 2012 07:00 AM PDT

In a major victory for transparency seekers and ordinary Indians living abroad, the centre has given its in-principle nod to allow the sale of Indian Postal Orders (IPOs) through the internet to citiz...


Russia warns it may target US missile shield

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:59 AM PDT

Russia said on Thursday its dispute with the United States over missile defence was near a "dead end" and warned it might have to deploy new rockets in Europe to take out elements of the controversial...

Activists claim Syrian forces raid university, 4 killed

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:56 AM PDT

Syrian security forces stormed student dorms at a northwestern university following anti-government protests there, killing at least four students and wounding several others with tear gas and live am...


World powers urge Iran to give more nuclear access

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:39 AM PDT

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council put pressure on Iran on Thursday to allay international concern about its nuclear programme, and said they expected talks with Tehran ...


British crime agency website knocked out by attack

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT

Britain's Serious and Organized Crime Agency says its website has been taken down following a denial-of-service attack.


Video of lioness trying to eat toddler gets talked about

Posted: 03 May 2012 06:23 AM PDT

The family of one-year-old Jack filmed him as a lioness at a US zoo tried her best to eat him. The lioness was separated from the toddler by a solid glass wall.


Four killed in a roadside blast in Pakistan

Posted: 03 May 2012 05:44 AM PDT

Four people, including three security personnel, were killed and two more injured when a bomb went off on roadside in the restive Bajaur tribal region of Northwest Pakistan today, officials said. The ...


Libya grants immunity to 'revolutionaries'

Posted: 03 May 2012 05:43 AM PDT

Libyan authorities granted immunity to former rebels who fought to oust Moammar Gaddafi's regime and has criminalised any glorification of the former leader, in laws passed on Thursday.


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