Monday, January 23, 2012

Don't come back, ISI chief told Musharraf in Dubai: Report

Don't come back, ISI chief told Musharraf in Dubai: Report


Don't come back, ISI chief told Musharraf in Dubai: Report

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:41 PM PST

Chief of Pakistan's spy agency, Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, had a secret meeting with former president Pervez Musharraf in Dubai and told him not to come to the country, a media report said ...


US defends Jay Leno's 'satirical' comments on Golden Temple

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 09:08 PM PST

The US has come to the defense of US television host Jay Leno and said the visual of Golden Temple in Amritsar during "The Tonight Show" was a "satirical" reference to Republican presidential hopeful ...


2 more bodies found, fuel removal to begin on ship

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:48 PM PST

Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday.


Gunmen kill 15 Philippine fishermen: military

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:17 PM PST

Gunmen have killed 15 Philippine fishermen and wounded three others in a sea attack by suspected local rivals, the military said on Tuesday. The fishermen were killed by men armed with assault rifl...


Venezuelan president has just one year to live

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:05 PM PST

Cancer-stricken Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has between nine and 12 months to live, his doctors said. Doctors have prescribed him a high dose of pain-killers, which account for his recent flur...


Marine pleads guilty to Iraqi civilian deaths in 2005

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 08:01 PM PST

A Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than...


Ex-CIA spy who captured top Al Qaeda man charged with leaking secrets

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:54 PM PST

An ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top Al Qaeda figure was charged on Monday with disclosing classified secrets, including the role of one of his associates on that covert mission, ...


Davos 2012: Financial fragility and igloo protests

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:18 PM PST

An igloo protest camp sprouting up amid $500-a-night hotels and security cordons at the Swiss resort of Davos seems to serve a warning to the world's rich and powerful gathering here: Beware, or you m...


Pakistan rejects US self-defence claim on strikes

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:50 AM PST

Pakistan's army on Monday formally rejected a U.S. claim that American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last year were justified as self-defence, a stance that could complicate efforts to re...


Pakistan Senate adopts resolution demanding Musharraf's arrest

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 10:12 AM PST

The upper house of Pakistan's parliament today unanimously adopted a resolution that demanded the arrest of former President Pervez Musharraf on his arrival in the country and the registration of a ca...


Pakistan court widens role, stirring fears

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 07:16 AM PST

Once they were heroes, cloaked justices at the vanguard of a powerful revolt against military rule in Pakistan, buoyed by pugnacious lawyers and an adoring public. But now Pakistan's Supreme Court is ...


'Memogate man' Mansoor Ijaz refuses to travel to Pakistan

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 03:36 AM PST

Fearing arrest, Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz, the central figure in the memo scandal, today said he would not visit Islamabad to depose before a judicial panel probing the matter and wa...


4 die in New York subway over 24-hour period: Police

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 02:22 AM PST

Four men have died in New York's subway in less than 24 hours. Police say the mishaps - all on Saturday - are unrelated. The first victim was found unconscious at about 2 am in Queens' Elmhurst Avenue...


Father accused of taping child, locking her in cage

Posted: 23 Jan 2012 12:44 AM PST

A man charged with punishing his 12-year-old daughter by binding her hands and feet with duct tape and sticking her in a dog cage, then threatening to electrify the crate, was being held Friday on a $...


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