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Refugee officials say more than 140,000 people have fled Libya to Egypt and Tunisia in a growing exodus from Moammar Ghadafi’s forces as they kill hundreds and block humanitarian aid to western Libya. UN refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said on “the situation is reaching crisis point” at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up [...]
Producer Shashikant Chheda, Amit Chheda Director Shankhadeep Music Nitin Kumar Gupta, Prem Hariya Writer Shankhadeep Lyrics Taufeeq Paalvi Release Date 11-Feb-2011 Tags: Entertainment, headline news, 20/20, online news, news articles
The troubled actress is accused of taking a necklace worth $2,500 from a store in Venice, California, last week. The Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office made the announcement earlier this morning, and Lindsay is due to appear in a Los Angeles court this afternoon for an arraignment on the single felony charge. According to [...]
Southern Sudan was well on track to become the world’s newest state after final results of its historic independence referendum showed that 98.83 per cent of its people had voted for succession. The results — displayed at an announcement ceremony in Khartoum — revealed that, out of 3,837,406 valid ballots cast, only 44,888 votes, or [...]
Defiant Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Wednesday refused to step down immediately but said he will not fight for another term in September, an announcement rejected by protesters who demanded his ouster by Friday. In a televised address, Mubarak said, “I say in all honesty and regardless of the current situation that I did not intend [...]
A shallow 7.4-magnitude earthquake has hit south-western Pakistan, in a desert area bordering Iran and Afghanistan, the US Geological Survey says. The quake struck at a depth of just 10km (6.2 miles) at 0123 on Wednesday (2023 GMT on Tuesday), some 55 km (34 miles) west of Dalbandin in Pakistan. It was located several hundred [...]
President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute that has left Venezuela and the United States without ambassadors in each other’s capitals. The handshake Saturday came as leaders were milling about at the inauguration of new Brazilian President [...]
Leaked US diplomatic cables revealed that hundreds of millions of dollars in American military aid to Pakistan earmarked for fighting Islamist militants was not used for the desired purpose, but diverted to the government’s coffers. According to a report by The Guardian, Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani said the money, including USD 26 million [...]
The US had multiple conversations with Indian officials on the release of secret documents pertaining to India by the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks, according to the State Department. “We have had multiple conversations with officials in India. And like India and other countries, we’ll continue those conversations in the coming days,” State Department spokesman P J [...]
A US super-carrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense Yellow Sea on Sunday for joint military exercises that were a united show of force just days after a deadly North Korean artillery attack. As tensions escalated across the region, with North Korea threatening another “merciless” attack, China belatedly jumped into the [...]