US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to wrap up a tour of eastern Europe and the Caucasus with a visit to Georgia. She has already visited Ukraine, Poland, Azerbaijan and Armenia on the five-day trip. Mrs Clinton will tell the government of Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi that he still has US support. US has [...]
Bronislaw Komorowski, Poland’s acting president and the governing party candidate, has regained the advantage in a close presidential election. He now has 52.6%, with rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski on 47.4%, with 95% of votes counted. Full results are due later. Mr Kaczynski had initially accepted defeat, but Mr Komorowski’s camp remained cautious. Mr Kaczynski is the [...]
Normal life has been disrupted in many parts of India after the country’s main opposition parties began a 12-hour strike to protest against the increase in prices of fuel. West Bengal, Kerala and Bihar states along with Mumbai were worst affected. Businesses were shut, schools and colleges closed and public transport thin in the affected [...]
NEW DELHI: There is no change in India’s policy towards Pakistan since the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Terrorism was, is and will continue to remain the major concern for India. This was the message hammered home to a Pakistani media contingent in a day-long series of meetings with Indian officials, including External Affairs [...]
NEW YORK: The U.N. official said the incident of change of route of UN ship was partly the fault of the ship’s captain, who didn’t follow the original plan for unloading goods in the countries. “A unilateral decision to alter the route was taken without consultation of the U.N. thus arriving in Bangladesh first and [...]
LAHORE: Two back-to-back suicide bombings and a cracker blast killed 42 people and injured over 175 inside the crowded shrine of Hazrat Data Gunj Bukhsh here on Thursday night, Geo news reported. According to details, many people were ripped apart by two bomb blasts in rapid succession. Two terrorists wearing vests packed with explosives, weighing [...]
Israel says it has held its first high-level meeting with Turkey since the latest row between the former allies over Israel’s killing of Turkish activists on an aid-ship heading for Gaza. An Israeli spokesman told the BBC the meeting had taken place in secret between the Turkish foreign minister and the Israeli trade minister. The [...]
US lawmakers have voted to cut almost $4bn (£2.7bn) in aid to the government of Afghanistan, after allegations of corruption. It comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that huge sums of cash had allegedly been flown out of Kabul international airport in recent years. Military operations and humanitarian aid will not be affected by [...]
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Barack Obama will sign into law on Thursday a new sanctions bill against Iran, the White House said on Wednesday. The bill, passed last week by the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, contains sanctions targeting Iran’s energy and banking sectors. Under the bill, businesses that help supply Iran with refined [...]
The Italian government is appealing to the European court of human rights to overturn a ban on classroom crucifixes. This case against crucifixes was brought by a woman who argued that her children had a right to a secular education under Italy’s constitution. Last year the court agreed with the mother, saying parents should be [...]
