Saturday, May 5, 2012

Nepal flood toll reaches 15: Reports

Nepal flood toll reaches 15: Reports


Nepal flood toll reaches 15: Reports

Posted: 05 May 2012 11:02 PM PDT

As many as 15 people have been killed and many are still missing following an avalanche in Nepal's Annapurna range which triggered a massive flood in the Seti river on Saturday, local media reports sa...


Record number of Indian Americans in race for US Congress

Posted: 05 May 2012 10:50 PM PDT

A record number of Indian Americans - at least 12 - are in the fray for the November 2012 polls vying for a place in the House of Representative, reflecting the serious effort of the fastest growing e...


Coca Cola apologises to China over excessive chlorine content

Posted: 05 May 2012 10:16 PM PDT

A Chinese unit of Coca Cola apologised for the way it dealt with a 'scandal' that arose after some of its drinks were alleged to be contaminated with chlorine. David G Brooks, president of the US beve...


American telecom company AT&T to pay Muslim woman $5M in harassment case

Posted: 05 May 2012 09:54 PM PDT

A former Kansas City woman who converted to Islam in 2005 said she was harassed for years at AT&T, and that the abuse boiled over in 2008 when her boss snatched her head scarf and exposed her hair.


Afghan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torture

Posted: 05 May 2012 09:20 PM PDT

The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations. The pli...


Serbians vote in shadow of economic crisis

Posted: 05 May 2012 08:56 PM PDT

Serbians will vote on Sunday in presidential, parliamentary and local elections, with a choice between the pro-European camp of President Boris Tadic and populist rival Tomislav Nikolic. For more than...


French President polls: Is it the end of the road for Nicolas Sarkozy?

Posted: 05 May 2012 08:31 PM PDT

France goes to the polls Sunday with frontrunner Francois Hollande hoping voters will reject Nicolas Sarkozy's record in office and make him the country's first Socialist president since 1995. Fran...


Baburam Bhattarai forms national government in Nepal

Posted: 05 May 2012 08:27 PM PDT

Nepal Premier Baburam Bhattarai formed a national unity government on Saturday by appointing 12 ministers from the main opposition parties, two days after his cabinet quit as part of a negotiated effo...

9/11 defendants formally charged in Guantanamo court

Posted: 05 May 2012 07:58 PM PDT

The five men accused of plotting the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were formally charged on Saturday with crimes that include murder and terrorism. Confessed mastermind Kahlid...


Obama kicks off campaign, tears into Romney

Posted: 05 May 2012 07:34 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama plunged into his campaign for a new term and tore into rival Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative Republicans in Congress who want t...


Iran slams Google for leaving Gulf nameless

Posted: 05 May 2012 11:09 AM PDT

Iran today criticised Google for leaving the body of water separating it from the Arabian peninsula nameless on its online map service, saying it would hurt the Internet giant's credibility.


Afghan child bride's in-laws sentenced for torture

Posted: 05 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT

The in-laws of a child bride who became the bruised and bloodied face of women's rights in Afghanistan have been sentenced to 10 years in prison for torture, abuse and human rights violations, a judge...


9/11 terror suspects to be formally charged

Posted: 05 May 2012 09:40 AM PDT

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks repeatedly declined to respond to a judge's questions on Saturday and his co-defendant was briefly restrained at a military hearing as five m...


Two dead, 19 wounded in Philippine blast: Police

Posted: 05 May 2012 09:32 AM PDT

Two people were killed and 19 others injured after an unidentified man tossed an explosive device into a crowded tourist area in a southern Philippine city late today, police said.


Vladimir Putin returns to presidency in a changed Russia

Posted: 05 May 2012 09:26 AM PDT

Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency on Monday will technically give him greater powers than he wielded as prime minister. The irony is that his position will be arguably weaker than at any time ...


Thousands march as Japan shuts off nuclear power

Posted: 05 May 2012 06:57 AM PDT

Thousands of Japanese marched to celebrate the switching off of the last of their nation's 50 nuclear reactors on Saturday, waving banners shaped as giant fish that have become a potent anti-nuclear s...


Hillary Clinton reaches Bangladesh to press stability

Posted: 05 May 2012 06:44 AM PDT

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Bangladesh today on the second leg of her tri-nation South Asia tour which will also take her to India. She arrived in the capital of Dhaka, which has ...


Explosions hit Syria's two main cities, five dead

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:46 AM PDT

An explosion killed at least five people in Aleppo and two blasts hit a Damascus highway on Saturday in further signs that rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad are shifting tactics towa...


For China, a dissident in exile is one less headache back home

Posted: 05 May 2012 05:30 AM PDT

After more than a week of high-level diplomacy over the fate of the blind activist Chen Guangcheng, the Chinese government was widely seen as making a major concession on Friday by agreeing to allow M...


Greece heads for critical, uncertain election

Posted: 05 May 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Greeks head to the polls on Sunday in their most critical - and uncertain - election in decades, with voters set to punish the two main parties that are being held responsible for the country's dire e...


Japan 'switching off' final nuclear reactor

Posted: 05 May 2012 02:26 AM PDT

A Japanese power firm began switching off the country's last working reactor, leaving it without nuclear power just over a year after the world's worst atomic accident in a quarter of a century. As te...


Pakistan, a failed country: US Congressman tells Gilani

Posted: 05 May 2012 01:02 AM PDT

Influential American Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has told Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani that his country is a failed state and no amount of US aid money will ever change that.


US drone strike kills 10 militants in Pakistan

Posted: 05 May 2012 12:05 AM PDT

A US drone attack targetting a militant compound killed at least 10 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal district along the Afghan border early on Saturday, security officials said.


Egyptian troops, protesters clash in Cairo

Posted: 04 May 2012 11:26 PM PDT

Egyptian troops blasted protesters with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition, trying to prevent them from marching on the Defense Ministry on Friday in clashes that left one soldier dead and sc...


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