Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Ghulam Nabi Fai pleads guilty of spying for the ISI

Ghulam Nabi Fai pleads guilty of spying for the ISI


Ghulam Nabi Fai pleads guilty of spying for the ISI

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 04:14 AM PST

Separatist Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai and his Kashmiri American Council were under full control of ISI, being run as an extension of Pakistan's spy agency to convince US lawmakers, officials and thinktanks about their viewpoint on Kashmir, according to latest court documents.


US discounts Pakistan coup rumours

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 03:22 AM PST

The US has discounted rumours of a "silent coup" against Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari after reports that he had gone to Dubai following a heart attack. "We have seen the reports. We certainly wish him a speedy recovery," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday when asked to comment on media speculation that Zardari was contemplating resignation over "memogate".


Moral victory for India at Durban climate change talks

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:57 AM PST

India has managed to secure a big moral victory at the Climate Summit in Durban. It has been successful in getting the word "equity" entered into the draft of the working group, which means it will be included in the agenda of all future talks.


Indian-American doctor guilty of falsely prescribing HIV drugs

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 02:20 AM PST

An Indian-American physician here has been found guilty of $ 700,000 Medicaid fraud in which he prescribed HIV medications to patients who did not have it. Suresh Hemrajani, 58, an internal medicine physician, was convicted by a jury on charges of grand larceny and 11 counts of falsifying business records, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said.


Denied food stamps, mother shoots children in welfare office

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 04:35 PM PST

A Texas woman who for months was unable to qualify for food stamps pulled a gun in a state welfare office and staged a seven-hour standoff with police that ended with her shooting her two children before killing herself, officials said on Tuesday.


US to use foreign aid to promote gay rights

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 02:59 PM PST

The Obama administration is announcing a wide-ranging effort to use US foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.


Mikhail Gorbachev calls for a new vote in Russia

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 01:51 PM PST

Russian authorities should annul the results of the parliamentary vote and hold a new one, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev urged on Wednesday as popular indignation grew over widespread allegations of election fraud.


Mexico says Gaddafi's son tried to enter country

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:36 PM PST

Mexico's Interior Secretary says Mexican intelligence agents have broken up a plot to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi and his family into Mexico under false names.


Sikh man burnt alive in Mercedes, death trap allegedly laid by student

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:23 PM PST

A young medical student, Mundill Mahil, ordered two men to kill 21-year-old millionaire Gagandeep Singh in London to punish him for trying to rape her a few months earlier.


Karzai vows to confront Pakistani government over Kabul suicide bombing

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 12:04 PM PST

Afghanistan's president vowed on Wednesday to confront the government in Islamabad over a devastating suicide bombing against a Shiite shrine in Kabul that he said originated on Pakistani soil.


Bill Gates developing nuclear reactor with China

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:38 AM PST

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor.


China arrests 600 in huge child trafficking bust

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 11:23 AM PST

Chinese police have busted two huge child trafficking rings that spanned 10 provinces, arresting more than 600 suspects and rescuing 178 children, the government said today. Child abductions and trafficking are rife in China, despite repeated police crackdowns -- a problem that many experts blame on the nation's strict "one-child" policy and lax regulations on adoption.


China president tells Navy to prepare for military combat

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 10:59 AM PST

The navy should 'accelerate its transformation and modernisation in a sturdy way, and make extended preparations for military combat in order to make greater contributions to safeguard national security and world peace', Mr Hu said in a speech.


After Chaiyya Chaiyya act, cop gets record deal, and is sacked

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 09:56 AM PST

First Indonesian police were angry about a young cop's YouTube lip-synching antics. Then they championed him for softening the image of an unloved force. Now, after he put stardom aspirations over his job, he's been fired.


Woman killed, body hidden under Christmas presents

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 05:44 AM PST

After a 67-year-old Florida woman was found beaten, strangled and hidden beneath the Christmas presents in her home, authorities charged a younger woman who had been befriended by the victim.


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