Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Hillary Clinton's last tour as a rock-star diplomat

Hillary Clinton's last tour as a rock-star diplomat

Hillary Clinton's last tour as a rock-star diplomat

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 10:31 PM PDT

On May 3, the day after an artful deal to end the diplomatic crisis over Chen Guangcheng, China's now-famous dissident, unravelled spectacularly, Hillary Rodham Clinton followed a scrum of Chinese min...

Indian MPs go to Yale for leadership training

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:32 PM PDT

Eleven Indian parliamentarians from seven national and regional parties are in Washington for interactions with senior US government officials and thought leaders as part of a leadership programme the...

North Korea girl dies saving Kim portraits

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 09:29 PM PDT

North Korean officials have posthumously honoured a 14-year-old girl who drowned in a flood while trying to save portraits of leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, RIA Novosti reported. Han Hyon-Gyong,...

5 killed, 18 injured in blast at railway station in Balochistan

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:17 PM PDT

At least five persons were killed and 18 others injured when a powerful bomb went off at a railway station in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. The b...

Pro-Assad TV station attacked, journalists killed

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 07:44 PM PDT

Gunmen attacked a pro-government TV station on Wednesday near the Syrian capital, killing seven employees in the latest barrage of violence as world powers prepared for a high-level meeting that the U...

West worried by China-Pakistan atomic ties: Sources

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:54 AM PDT

Western states pressured China at closed-door talks last week to address concerns about its plans to expand a nuclear power plant in Pakistan and provide more information, but were rebuffed, two diplo...

Taliban video shows 17 beheaded Pakistani soldiers

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:53 AM PDT

The Taliban released a video on Wednesday that they say shows the heads of 17 Pakistani soldiers captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan this week and beheaded. The bloody attack showed the t...

Over 10,000 messages back Assange's asylum in Ecuador

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 08:22 AM PDT

The Ecuadorian embassies in the United States and Britain have received over 10,000 messages in support of political asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Ecuadorian authorities announced on Tu...

Suu Kyi to be honoured in Paris near end of Europe tour

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:22 AM PDT

Myanmar's democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi, nearing the end of her triumphant Europe tour in France, was due to accept another award on Wednesday, becoming an honorary citizen of Paris.

Annan to convene Syria talks in Geneva on Saturday

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 05:10 AM PDT

International peace envoy Kofi Annan intends to convene a high-level meeting on Syria in Geneva this Saturday as the conflict there intensifies, his deputy said on Wednesday.

Don't blame us, Abu Hamza is Indian, says Pakistan

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT

Pakistan has dismissed India's claim that the arrest of 26/11 handler Abu Hamza, and the information he has provided to interrogators, proves that Pakistani state actors were involved with the attacks...

Britain's queen shakes hands with former IRA chief

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 04:12 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former Irish Republican Army (IRA) commander Martin McGuinness for the first time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict that cost the lives of thous...

Gunmen storm Pro-Assad Syrian TV channel

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:51 AM PDT

Gunmen stormed a pro-government Syrian TV channel headquarters on Wednesday, bombing buildings and shooting dead three employees, state media said, in one of the boldest attacks yet on a symbol of the...

Argentina crash kills 12, including nine police officers

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:41 AM PDT

A crash involving two police buses and a truck left at least 12 people dead and 48 injured in the Argentine province of Chubut, according to an official list of fatalities. The victims in the crash t...

Bomb blasts rock Baghdad suburb, kill 8

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:37 AM PDT

Iraq Police say two bombs have exploded in a Baghdad suburb, killing at least eight people. It is the latest attack in a particularly bloody month as the Iraqi government struggles to provide security...

70 dead, 200,000 stranded in Bangladesh floods

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 03:18 AM PDT

Days of incessant rain in Bangladesh, some of the heaviest in years, have set off flash floods and landslides, killing at least 70 people and stranding about 200,000, police and officials said on Wedn...

Before a full house in Iran, Koran reciters vie for top honors

Posted: 26 Jun 2012 11:43 PM PDT

On the long journey from Kampala to Tehran, 15-year-old Hamissi Mawejje had plenty of time to spend with his iPod. The plugs pushed into his ears, which emerged from under his red fez, Mr. Mawejje whi...
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