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Washington, Sep.9 (ANI): Though Obama administration officials are reluctant to confirm that there has been wholesale fraud in the presidential elections in Afghanistan, they have recognised that with President Hamid Karzai getting a slim majority, that they will have to keep dealing with him for another five years.

While there are clearly numerous egregious instances of [...]

London, Sep 5 (ANI): Major forces around the world have supported Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s view that protectionism is a real threat to the global economy.

“Emerging markets need to guard against tendencies in some developed countries to extend protectionism beyond trade to financial markets and investment,” Mukherjee said in a press conference here on [...]

London, August 30 (ANI): English novelist Somerset Maugham has been exposed as an unkind father who inflicted cruelty on his daughter, Liza, in newly discovered tapes.

The tapes that Liza made before her death in 1998 shed light on the harsh life she spent as a kid at the hands of her father and his [...]

Kabul, Aug.19 (ANI): Afghan police have killed at least three gunmen who stormed a bank building in Kabul this morning.

A report by The Times said the police is conducting a search of the premises after engaging the attackers in brief gun battle inside the building.

The building is just a few hundred metres from the presidential [...]

Kabul, Aug.19 (ANI): At least three gunmen, all reported to be members of the Taliban, stormed a central Kabul bank on Wednesday morning, and are currently surrounded by police.

A web site-W A Today-confirmed a short while ago that police have entered the building and were engaged in a gun battle with the attackers. It also [...]

Los Angeles – Michael Jackson’s family was in court Monday as it sought to gain greater control over the late singer’s estate.
The court hearing was also expected to confirm a settlement that grants Jackson’s mother, Katherine, custody of Jackson’s three children, with Debbie Rowe, the mother of the two oldest kids, getting meaningful visitation rights.
Jackson [...]

Washington, July 13 (ANI): New findings from a Field Museum (Chicago) excavation team has confirmed that pre-Hispanic Zapotec rulers carried around human femurs, or thigh bones, as a symbol of power and legitimacy.

Scientists had earlier found evidence of this theory from a carved lintel at the site of Lambityeco, where a ruler is depicted with [...]

L’Aquila (Italy), July 8 (ANI): India’s bid to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council got a boost when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown expressed his support for New Delhi’s demand to restructure the [...]

Washington, July 6 (ANI): President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. have said in separate interviews that they will not be deterred from engaging Iran diplomatically in spite of the political crisis in that country.

In an interview with [...]

Washington, June 29 (ANI): Despite Iranian government snuffing out public protest over disputed presidential elections, the event has highlighted an extraordinary unity in the country that will reap out results soon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, has said.

“Something extraordinary has happened of late in Iran and the popular discontent, the incredible diversity [...]

Washington, June 19 (ANI): Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today said that the recent presidential elections showed off the country’s religious democracy for the world to see, shrugging an unprecedented challenge to the country’s ruling clerics by opposition supporters, who claim the June 12 presidential election was rigged.

He said on Friday that there was “definitive [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): The US administration is using another medium to hit back at the Taliban – public relations.

According to a Christian Science Monitor (CSM) report, more than a week has passed since a United States bombardment killed civilians in western Afghanistan, but the battle between coalition forces and the Taliban has only intensified [...]

Kandahar (Afghanistan), May 13 (ANI): Taliban fighters are using recently acquired voter identification cards as makeshift passports to smooth border crossings from Pakistan and ease travel between cities in Afghanistan’s southern provinces, reports the Globe and Mail.

When produced, the voter registration cards give fighters an appearance of legitimacy, they say, and help them “trick” Afghan [...]

Mingora, Apr 22 (ANI): Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has said that they are ready to welcome Osama bin Laden in Swat, and added that they are not bound to honour the peace accord between the government and cleric Sufi Muhammad.

Pak Taliban said the NWFP Government had signed the deal with Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi and not with the Taliban, a [...]

Jakarta – Political parties led by the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle said Tuesday that last week’s elections were rigged, calling the vote the “worst” since the fall of autocratic president Suharto in 1998. The Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was leading in early vote counting after Thursday’s parliamentary elections, and pollsters [...]

GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian mediators trying to break the deadlock in talks on a Palestinian government of national unity have told rival groups Fatah and Hamas to cooperate on reconstructing Gaza as a first step, officials said.
Palestinian groups have been talking in Cairo for months but have so far failed to agree on a unity [...]

New York, Apr.1 (ANI): US President Obama’s strategy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan, unveiled last week, finally focuses the government’s attention and resources where they are most needed, says an editorial in the New York Times.

According to Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, after years, the president has recognized that the key to US national security [...]

Lahore, Mar. 17 (ANI): Constitutional experts in Pakistani are divided over the legitimacy of the sacked judges’ restoration of sacked judges through an executive order passed by the Prime Minister.

Some experts have claimed that the step contradicts an earlier Supreme Court verdict on judges who refused to take the oath under the Provisional Constitutional [...]

London, Mar.12 (ANI): The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Chairman, Giles Clarke, has outlined a series of reforms that aim to alter the way the game is governed.

The moves represent an attempt by the ECB to get back on to the front foot in the wake of the divisive [...]

Lahore, Mar 6 (ANI): The Lahore High Court on Friday admitted petitions challenging governor’s rule in the Punjab for hearing.

Justice Asif Saeed Khosa said the court has also issued notices to the Attorney General of Pakistan and Advocate General of Punjab for subsequent proceedings.

According [...]