International

Syrian Christians fear Islamist rule if Assad goes

May 16th, 2012

Damascus: Christians living in conflict-torn Syria are afraid their community would fall victim of religious extremism if President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapses and Islamists come to power. “I am afraid that we will suffer bad times,” a member of Damascus’s Christian community, who identified himself as Jorge, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. A full-fledged [...]

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Brooks charged along with husband, 4 others

May 16th, 2012

London: The multiple investigations into the phone-hacking scandal onTuesday moved a notch higher with the prosecutors bringing three charges of perjury against media baron Rupert Murdoch’s former confidante Rebekah Brooks, who was one of the most powerful editors in Britain until recently. Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband Charles Brooks – neighbours and good friends [...]

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Anti-Israel rally

May 15th, 2012

A Pakistani Shiite Muslim protestor falls over a fire, while pouring gasoline on representations of US and Israeli flags, during an anti-Israel rally and in solidarity with the Palestinian people in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday. (PTI)

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NATO supply routes should be reopened: Khar

May 15th, 2012

Islamabad: Nearly six months after Pakistan shut NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has said she personally believes that the routes should be reopened. Khar made the remarks while speaking to reporters, who accompanied Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on an official visit to Britain, ‘The Express Tribune’ said today. She [...]

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Forty-nine headless corpses found in Mexico

May 15th, 2012

CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, Mexico: Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico’s northern city of Monterrey in one of the country’s worst atrocities in recent years. The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a [...]

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Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul

May 14th, 2012

KABUL: Gunmen shot dead a top Afghan peace negotiator in the capital Kabul on Sunday, police said, dealing another blow to the country’s attempts to negotiate a peace deal with the Taliban. Maulvi Arsala Rahmani was one of the most senior members on Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, set up by President Hamid Karzai two years [...]

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Gilani vows to protect constitution

May 14th, 2012

London: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said “come what may” he will protect the constitution, a report says. “Come what may I will protect the constitution of Pakistan. I will go to the last limit and exhaust all my options and exercise my right to appeal,” Gilani Saturday told a gathering of leaders [...]

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