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LONDON: Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty Tuesday of fixing parts of a Test against England in a case that has thrown the credibility of the international game into doubt. Former Test captain Butt, 27, and fast bowler Asif, 28, face jail after a court in London convicted them of deliberately bowling three no-balls during the Lord's Test in August 2010 as part of

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - More than 2,000 corpses have been found buried in several unmarked graves in Kashmir, believed to be victims of the divided region's separatist revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report. The graves were found in dozens of villages near the Line of Control, the military line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. "At 38 places visited in north

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IBM has developed a microprocessor which it claims comes closer than ever to replicating the human brain. The system is capable of "rewiring" its connections as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work.Researchers believe that that by replicating that feature, the technology could start to learn.Cognitive computers may eventually be used for understanding human

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WASHINGTON  : US officials Wednesday unveiled charges against 72 people in their largest global probe into Internet child pornography which smashed a "nightmare" online bulletin board catering to pedophiles. The investigation launched in 2009 has led to arrests in the US and 13 other countries of participants in Dreamboard, which had a "VIP" ranking system for members trading in graphic

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An American citizen was kidnapped from his residence in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Saturday, police said.LAHORE : Western media, quoting the U.S. embassy, identified the man as Warren Weinstein who works for the consulting firm J.E. Austin Associates Inc. He was working on a development project in the lawless tribal areas, where Pakistani troops have been battling Islamist insurgents

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NEW YORK: An American manufacturer has created a submarine which is capable of reaching the deepest point of the ocean. The Triton 36,000 is capable of descending at a rate of 500 feet per minute which allows it to reach those parts of the ocean which have never been seen by man. The submarine is capable of reaching depths of 35,800 feet which allows adventure seekers to see something they have

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LONDON: Three people of Pakistani origin died Wednesday after being hit by a car during riots in the central English city of Birmingham, officials said, amid reports that they died while trying to protect their community from looters.Police said they had arrested a man and launched a murder inquiry after the incident which happened at around 1:00 am (0000 GMT) as Britain's second biggest city

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WASHINGTON: Standard & Poor's cut the US credit rating for the first time in history Friday, saying the country's politicians are increasingly unable to come to grips with its massive fiscal deficit and debt load.S&P cut the US rating from its top-flight triple-A one notch to AA+, and added a negative outlook to it, saying there was a chance it could be downgraded again within two years if

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Sweden –  Too many chefs spoil the broth -- but how many nuclear reactors?Swedish authorities have detained a man who attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen, Helsingborgs Dagblad reported Tuesday."I was arrested and sent to jail when the police and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority searched my apartment," the unnamed nuclear enthusiast wrote on a blog detailing his project. "

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CAPE CANAVERAL: A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned on re-entry more than 8 years ago, has been found in a lake, NASA officials said.Wreckage from shuttle Columbia was uncovered in East Texas this week, the result of a prolonged drought lowering water levels in a lake.The spherical tank, which is about four feet in diameter, is stuck in the mud alongside Lake

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CAIRO: Ousted President Hosni Mubarak has denied all charges of corruption and complicity in killing protesters during Egypt's uprising after a court detailed the allegations against him at the opening session of his trial.An ailing, 83-year-old Hosni Mubarak, lying ashen-faced on a hospital bed inside a metal defendants cage with his two sons beside him in white prison uniforms, faced the start

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MUMBAI: Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 113 others.India has remained jittery about the threat of militant strikes, especially since the November 2008 attacks which killed 166 people.At least 113 people were wounded on Wednesday and preliminary reports showed the death toll had risen to 21 in the "terror attacks

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AL-QAEDA is plotting a devastating "cyber jihad" against Britain and the West, it was revealed yesterday. Terrorists have even tried to "invade" Facebook in their campaign of electronic warfare. The extremists have launched crack units to target key computer systems. And Google Earth and Street View are being used to help plan atrocities. The warnings came as Home Secretary Theresa May unveiled

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WASHINGTON: Iraq has quietly started negotiations to buy U.S. fighter jets and air-defense systems worth billions of dollars, a purchase Washington hopes will help counter Iranian influences and cement long-term ties with Baghdad after American troops pull out. Baghdad had frozen plans to buy 18 advanced U.S. F-16 fighters earlier this year after the Arab Spring protests in the region turned its

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KANDAHAR: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the younger brother of the Afghan president and a powerful figure in the deeply troubled southern province of Kandahar, was assassinated on Tuesday, officials said.Initial details were sketchy, but a family friend, speaking on condition of anonymity, told that Wali Karzai had been killed by a bodyguard while entertaining guests at home."We can confirm he has been

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KHARTOUM, Sudan - The Sudanese government on Friday officially announced its recognition of South Sudan as an independent state with sovereignty as of Saturday based on the borders of January 1, 1956. "The Republic of Sudan announces its recognition of the establishment of the Republic of South Sudan as an independent state with sovereignty, as of July 9, 2011, according to the borders of January

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LONDON: The mass-circulation tabloid at the centre of the British phone hacking scandal is to be closed after a final, ad-free Sunday edition this weekend, according a statement by a top official at News Corp. The move underscored the damage to News Corp, Rubert Murdoch's vast and powerful media company, from allegations that one of its papers, News of the World, was involved in hacking

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LA PAZ: Freezing temperatures in Bolivia killed at least 35 people, and forecasts expect conditions to worsen in the coming days.Fog and snow has descended on the Bolivian capital in a cold snap that has killed at least 35 people.The poor area of El Alto, which sits at much higher elevation than the rest of La Paz at 4,000 metres above sea level (13,100 feet), has been the worst hit.Authorities

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Beijing: Questions have been raised over the safety of the world's longest sea bridge that connects China's eastern Qingdao city with Huangdao Island, a media report said on Tuesday.There are fears that in the rush to complete the construction ahead of its formal opening on June 30, some work on the bridge was left incomplete.Several gaps were found in the crash barriers on the 42.5 kilometer

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San Francisco:A group of computer hackers on Sunday posted a document it claimed contains usernames and passwords for an Apple Inc. server, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised government and corporate websites around the world."AntiSec," a hacking campaign that includes hackers from both the online vigilante group Anonymous and hackers from the now-defunct Lulz Security

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NEW YORK : A series of alarming Twitter posts about President Barack Obama appeared on Fox News' Twitter account for political news early Monday morning, and the website for the cable television network said it was a victim of hacking. The Twitter account, @foxnewspolitics, one of many operated by Fox News, claimed that the president was fatally shot while campaigning in Iowa, but gave no source

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LONDON: Novak Djokovic won his first Wimbledon title on Sunday, dethroning champion Rafael Nadal with a 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 triumph to celebrate his coronation as new world number one in style.It was the 24-year-old Serb's third Grand Slam title, to add to his 2008 and 2011 Australian Open victories, and 50th win his last 51 matches.Djokovic, who will succeed Nadal as world number one on Monday,

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WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vowed Friday to keep the US military the "strongest" in the world despite budget pressures, after being sworn in as the new Pentagon chief. "As your leader, I will ensure that our nation continues to have the best-trained, best-equipped, and strongest military in the world -- a force prepared to confront the challenges that face us," Panetta wrote in his

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NEW YORK: Firefighters inside a nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico scrambled on Thursday to clear brush near barrels of plutonium-contaminated waste stored just a few miles from a monster blaze roaring through surrounding forests.The so-called Las Conchas Fire has charred nearly 93,000 acres of thick pine woodlands on the slopes of the Jemez Mountains since erupting on Sunday near the Los

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Karachi:Pakistani scientists have mapped genome of the first Pakistani, while with this historical achievement, Pakistan joins the ranks of the few countries - the US, UK, China, Japan and India - which have successfully sequenced the human genome.Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine & Drug Research (PCMD), University of Karachi (KU) and Beijing Genomics Institute, China, have jointly mapped

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Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in a bid to take on Facebook, which now has more than 500m users, says a report by the BBC.The website, Google+, allows users to share photos, messages and comments and also integrates Google's maps and images into the service. It also aims to help users organize contacts within groups.While Google claims the new service

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LONDON: Saudi Arabia has warned NATO that it would pursue policies that could lead to "untold and possibly dramatic consequences" if Iran obtains nuclear weapons, a British newspaper reported on Wednesday.The British newspaper quoted Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi intelligence chief and ambassador to Washington and Britain, speaking to senior NATO officials earlier this month at an

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The art of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

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ABBOTTABAD: Osama bin Laden was out of touch with the younger generation of al-Qaida commanders, and they often didn't follow his advice during the years he was in hiding in Abbottabad, US and Pakistani officials say.According to the American newspaper, Contradicting the assertions of some American officials that bin Laden was running a "command and control" center from the walled compound in

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KABUL: Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a top Kabul hotel, sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter in an assault that left at least 10 people dead Wednesday.Red tracer bullets arced through the night sky around the hilltop Intercontinental Hotel, whose faded grandeur frequently pays host to Afghan officials and foreigners. Part of the building was

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LONDON: Defending champion Serena Williams, five-time champion Venus Williams and top seed Caroline Wozniacki were sent crashing out of Wimbledon Monday as the women's singles was rocked by a triple upset.Serena, who has only recently returned from a year-long layoff caused by injury and life-threatening health problems, was stunned 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) by fiery Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli in a

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WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Monday branded as ‘ironic’ an anti-terrorism summit held last week in Tehran. "We consider it quite ironic that Iran, the most active state sponsor of terrorism, is holding a meeting on terrorism," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.Delegates from 60 countries took part in the June 25 conference, including Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, which

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TRIPOLI: The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant Monday for Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and rebels trying to oust him said their forces had advanced to within 80 km (50 miles) of the capital Tripoli.The court approved warrants for Gaddafi as well as his son Saif al-Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity. ICC prosecutors

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RIYADH: Eighty-five Al-Qaeda suspects went on trial in a special Saudi security court on Sunday in connection with deadly attacks carried out in the kingdom, state news agency SPA said. The defendants face charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda, of taking part in attacks on public buildings and residential compounds, and of smuggling and possession of weapons, it said. Thirteen of the group are accused

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SAN FRANCISCO: The public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was apparently knocked out of commission by hackers on Wednesday.The US spy agency's cia.gov website stopped responding and members of a hacker group called Lulz Security claimed credit in a message on Twitter at @LulzSec."Tango down - cia.gov," the message read. "For the lulz."Attempts to reach cia.gov were met with a

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DUBAI: Al-Qaeda has named Ayman al-Zawahiri as its new chief following the killing in Pakistan of long-time leader Osama bin Laden by US commandos, the jihadists said in a statement Thursday."The general command of Al-Qaeda announces, after consultations, the appointment of Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahiri as head of the group," said the statement, issued in the name of the general command and posted on

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LONDON: According to a report published in the Guardian, US and Afghan officials are engaged in secret talks which could likely lead to US presence in Afghanistan for decades. According to the report, the secret negotiations about a long-term security arrangement have been underway for over a month and seek to secure a strategic partnership agreement which would include an American presence

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five CIA informants, including a Pakistani Army major who officials said copied the license plates of cars

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ISTANBUL: Turkey's ruling party surged to a third term in parliamentary elections Sunday, setting the stage for the rising regional power to pursue trademark economic growth, assertive diplomacy and an overhaul of the military-era constitution.However, the Justice and Development Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan fell short of a two-thirds majority in parliament, a shortcoming that

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The UN’s latest report on Afghanistan reads that May has been the deadliest month for civilians since 2007, when the organization improvised a commission to record civilian casualties around the country.The UN officials were saddened on the announcement that more than 368 people have died so far in different conflicts over the past month. "More civilians were killed in May than in any other month

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SAN FRANCISCO: Suspected Chinese hackers tried to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google email account holders, including those of senior U.S. government officials, Chinese activists and journalists, the Internet company said.The perpetrators appeared to originate from Jinan, the capital of China's eastern Shandong province, Google said. Jinan is home to one of six technical reconnaissance

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KARACHI: The Indian army, and not just the civilian government, has played a role in the ongoing deadlock with Pakistan over the Siachen dispute, according to American and Indian assessments contained in confidential US diplomatic cables.On Siachen, Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) T. C. A. Raghavan, who has also served as the Indian Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan, reported

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WASHINGTON: Pakistani Ambassador to Washington Hussain Haqqani has said that talks of ending Pakistan's aid could affect ties between Pakistan and United States.While addressing from Centre for Global Development in Washington Haqqani said that Pakistan and America were each other's strategic partners, adding that it is necessary that Pakistan's political issues would be kept alone from its aid

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan and US are building a joint intelligence team to go after top terrorist suspects inside Pakistan, US and Pakistani officials said, a fledgling step to restoring trust blown on both sides by the killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces during a secret raid last month.The move comes after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented the Pakistanis with the US list of

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LOS ANGELES: Flamboyant pop star Lady Gaga has sold more than one million copies of her new album to top the U.S. pop chart for the first time, according to sales data published on Tuesday by Billboard magazine.Fans scooped up 1.11 million copies of her much-hyped release "Born This Way" during the week ended May 29, with a bit of help from a hugely popular 99-cent promotion by online retailer

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WASHINGTON: The Pentagon said Tuesday that it would consider all options if the United States were hit by a cyber-attack as it develops the first military guidelines for the age of Internet warfare.President Barack Obama's administration has been formalizing rules on cyberspace amid growing concern about the reach of hackers. Major defense contractor Lockheed Martin said it repelled a major

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KATHMANDU: A decade after Nepal's crown prince stunned the world by gunning down nine family members, mystery still surrounds the massacre that plunged the monarchy into a crisis from which it never recovered.Many Nepalese believe they may never know the truth about the night of June 1, 2001, when a drink- and drugs-fuelled prince Dipendra ran amok with an automatic weapon at a family dinner at

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KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday the US-led Nato military in Afghanistan risks becoming an "occupying force" if aerial bombings which cause civilian casualties continue.His outspoken remarks came days after he issued a "last warning" to foreign forces over civilian casualties following Saturday's killing of what he said was 14 civilians including women and children in an air

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LONDON: Taliban leader Mullah Baradar is believed to have informed US whereabouts of Al-Qaeda Chief Osama Bin Laden, a UK paper claimed.According to the report, in return the US promised to pullout troops from Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan once Osama had been killed or captured.Until now it has been believed that Osama Bin Laden was caught when the US intercepted a phone call made by his

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BERLIN: Germany will shut down all its nuclear plants by 2022, and eight reactors shut down after Japan's nuclear disaster in March will not be reactivated, the government announced Monday. The decision, announced by Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, came after a meeting of leaders of the ruling coalition headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which lasted from Sunday evening into the early

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LONDON: Barcelona, inspired by the peerless Lionel Messi, delivered a soccer masterclass to overwhelm Manchester United 3-1 in the Champions League final and lift the European Cup for the fourth time on Saturday. Messi was at his inspirational best all night at Wembley as the champions of Spain left the champions of England looking like desperate also-rans in the face of their relentless

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan has agreed to permit the CIA to send in a forensic team to search Osama bin Laden's compound, the US paper reported Thursday, citing US officials. The CIA team will arrive at the compound in Abbottabad within days to thoroughly search the residence where US Navy commandos killed bin Laden on May 2 in a unilateral raid that angered Islamabad, the report said. "The assault

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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday formally nominated Leon Panetta as his new secretary of defense and David Petraeus, who commands the international force in Afghanistan, as Panetta's successor at the CIA.Obama had first said he planned to nominate Panetta and Petraeus on April 28, just days before US commandos entered Pakistan and shot and killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.The

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LONDON: Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) and several other US military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told this news agency.They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys from EMC Corp's (EMC.N) RSA security division, said the person who was not

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WASHINGTON: As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Pakistan Friday, the United States gave Islamabad a list of terrorist leaders it wants joint operation against them, officials said.The list includes Osama bin Laden deputy Ayman al Zawahiri, along with Siraj Haqqani of the Haqqani network, Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and suspected al-Qaida leader, and

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A new satellite survey of Egypt has identified 17 lost pyramids and more than 1,000 un-excavated tombs. The team from the University of Alabama analysed images from satellites orbiting the earth that have infrared cameras which can highlight different materials under the ground.Satellite archaeologists were able to identify ancient Egyptian houses, temples and tombs made of mud-brick, which is

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CNN: It probably was a typical Sunday night at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri -- patients watching television, perhaps, or eating their dinners.But the evening wound up as anything but typical, as the nine-story building took what officials said was a direct hit from a tornado. The twister turned a place where the injured typically would seek treatment and refuge into a

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TRIPOLI: At least three people died and 150 were wounded as NATO warplanes hit the Libyan capital Tripoli early Tuesday, government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim told reporters. "According to the information we have there are three dead and 150 wounded," he told journalists on a bus taking them to a hospital shortly after the strikes. Ibrahim said NATO had carried out "between 12 and 18 raids on a

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LONDON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated that Pakistan has hard choices to make and the international community is ready to help her overcome challenges posed by the terrorists and militants.She was speaking at a joint news conference with her British counterpart William Hague at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office following their talks on the eve of President Barack Obama’s

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LONDON: A man jogging along a quiet road survived after being struck twice by lightning in the space of a minute.A CCTV footage caught the incident on film on April 11, showing the bewildered man fall to the ground after being struck only to be struck a second time after getting back on his feet.The footage has become something of an Internet sensation with viewers debating over its origins and

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KABUL: The Taliban in Afghanistan rejected on Monday un-sourced media reports that its leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been killed in Pakistan, saying he is alive and in Afghanistan."He is in Afghanistan safe and sound," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location. "We reject these baseless reports that Mullah Mohammad Omar has been killed.

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KARACHI: Gunmen armed with rockets and explosives stormed Pakistan Navy airbase, destroying two US-made two P-3C Orion aircraft surveillance aircraft and killing 12 security personnel.Geo News correspondent reported from the vicinity of PNS Mehran that four militants blew themselves up, while the security forces have arrested four other militants.Correspondent Tariq Abul Hassan also said that the

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Attack Karachi naval air base.

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THE US Navy SEALs who killed Osama bin Laden were carrying a pocket guide to the occupants of his compound that was so detailed it suggests the CIA may have had a mole inside.The document, left behind in the compound and obtained by The Sunday Times, lists the names and ages of those who were present, including bin Laden's wives, children and grandchildren.It details where they lived in the

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KARACHI: Four people were killed in an armed attack Sunday by terrorists on PNS Mehran, a heavily guarded base of Pakistan Navy, located along Sharea Faisal, according to a foreign news agency. TV images showed flames rising in the air from PNS Mehran where terrorists blew up a US made four-engine P-3C Orion plane of Pakistan Navy.Five injured in the incident were shifted to a local

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KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan said on Saturday that Pakistan was fighting America's war on terror which had not only claimed the lives of thousands of Pakistanis but also badly affected the country's economy."The war on terror is the war of the United States but our rulers have made it a war of Pakistan," he said while addressing a large sit-in staged at the Native Jetty

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WASHINGTON: US President Obama has indicated he would order an Abbottabad type operation that killed Osama Bin Laden early this month if another militant leader was found in Pakistan.He said the US was mindful of sovereignty issue but said the US could not allow "active plans to come to fruition without us taking some action".He was speaking to the BBC ahead of a European visit.Asked what he

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NICOSIA: Security forces killed 44 people during anti-regime protests which swept Syria on Friday, with most of the casualties in the western province of Idlib and the central city of Homs, a human right activist said Saturday. "Syrian authorities are continuing to use excessive force and live ammunition to face popular protests in various regions throughout the country," said Ammar Qurabi, head

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mbc.net: King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has made new appointments in the kingdom’s grievances, education, telecommunications and military departments, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Friday. A decree from King Abdullah on Friday announced the retirement of the chief of staff of the Saudi armed forces, General Saleh al-Mohaya, and the appointment of his successor, Field

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AL ARABIYA: Iran on Friday slammed US President Barack Obama’s speech on the Middle East as a sign of “despair” and “contradictions” in Washington’s policies in the region. Syria said the speech “had nothing new” and that it only reaffirmed the Obama Administration’s staunch support for Israel.“The despair, contradictions and lies are visible in the speech by Mr. Obama and his support for the

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MADRID: Tens of thousands of Spanish protesters have defied a government ban and camped out overnight in a square in the capital, Madrid.The protesters are angry with the government's economic policies and have occupied the square for the past week.The protest began six days ago in Madrid's Puerta del Sol as a spontaneous sit-in by young Spaniards frustrated at 45% youth unemployment and observed

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan has ordered the departure of up to 20 percent of the roughly 150 U.S. Special Operations forces trainers in the wake of a series of clashes between the two governments, a U.S. military official said.Between 25 and 30 trainers were “told to leave” in the weeks before the U.S. commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden this month, apparently in response to an earlier incident

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LANDIKOTAL: NATO oil tankers were set ablaze in two separate incidents late Friday night at Landikotal and Torkham killing at least 16 people, including 8 members of a family.The sources said in the first incident at 10:30 p.m. the militants torched a Nato oil tanker in Khugakhel area on the Landikotal bypass. The tanker was parked on the roadside when it was dynamited with a time device, the

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TOKYO: The dollar eased against the yen in Asia on Thursday after rising to its highest levels in three weeks as Japanese exporters sold the greenback, dealers said.The dollar bought 81.55 yen in Tokyo morning trade, after topping 81.80 yen earlier Thursday.The dollar traded at 81.64 yen in New York late Wednesday.The dollar lost ground due to selling by Japanese exporters, a senior dealer at a

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WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda has released a message from slain leader Osama bin Laden praising the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia and urging Muslims to take advantage of a "rare historic opportunity" to rise up, US monitors said.The 12-minute, 37-second audio message posted on jihadist forums on Wednesday by Al Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab addresses Muslims on the revolutions sweeping the Middle East and

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ISLAMABAD: The United States has formally apologized Pakistan over drone attacks, Geo News reported on Tuesday.According to sources, the US apologized civil and military leadership of Pakistan over the drone strikes that killed nine people in North Waziristan on Monday.The sources added that these strikes were scheduled before the visit of US Senator John Kerry. The US has stated that it would

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TEHRAN: Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was a prisoner in US custody for "sometime" before he was killed by the American military, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday."I have exact information that bin Laden was held by the American military for sometime... until the day they killed him he was a prisoner held by them," the president said in a live interview on Iranian state

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KARACHI: A Saudi diplomat was killed in a drive-by shooting near the consulate in Karachi on Monday, the second attack on Saudi interests in Pakistan's biggest city in less than a week, officials said.The motive of the attack was not immediately clear, but authorities said they were investigating whether it was connected to the death of Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US forces in

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New York : IMF Chief Mr Strauss-Kahn sex attack on hotel maid being questioned New York police arrest JFK airport on Saturday. Mr Strauss-Kahn John F Kennedy airport minutes before it left for Paris New York police was taken into custody IMF chief.Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62 years old.He had not been charged woman 32 who filed the complaint against.woman who worked at the hote. Strauss-Kahn, a possible

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ISLAMABAD: Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha told the joint parliamentary session that CIA contractor and killer of two Pakistanis Raymond Davis was handed over to the US on orders of President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, a PML-N MP quoted the chief spymaster as saying.When contacted by The News, Senator Mushahidullah said Gen Pasha

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AL Arabiya : Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden had developed sophisticated tactics to communicate with his followers worldwide via the Internet without leaving digital traces for the US government, American intelligence officials have said.Bin Laden would type a message on his computer without an Internet connection, then save it in flash memory. Then a trusted courier would take the flash drive to

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WASHINGTON: US officials arrested three Pakistani Americans on Saturday and charged them and three others with providing or conspiring to provide "material support" to the Pakistani Taliban, the US Justice Department said."All six defendants are charged with conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap persons overseas, as well as conspiring to

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ROME: An Italian groom left hanging at the altar after his runaway bride changed her mind at the last minute because she was in love with another man is now suing her for 500,000 euros ($743,000).The 32-year-old said he had suffered emotional and material damages after booking a villa for the wedding outside Rome, reserving a honeymoon on a Pacific island and refurbishing an apartment to his

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BRUSSELS: European Apparel and Textile Confederation (Euratex) has opposed changes to the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) proposed by the European Union (EU) Commission to grant duty-free access to Pakistan, a statement said on Thursday.Euratex believes the changes will increase the vulnerability threshold of the GSP+ from one percent to two percent, which will have a severe impact on the

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KABUL: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday for a two-day visit, including talks on the regional impact of Osama bin Laden's death and future aid projects, officials said. (AFP)

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ISLAMABAD: Director General ISI, Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha Friday admitting failure in the Osama killing episode in Abbottabad, sought apology from the nation and added that he would resign if the parliament so demands, Geo News reported.“The failure was not intentional but I admit that it was a mistake,” the ISI Chief said during the in-camera joint sitting of the parliament that was briefed

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WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency has begun showing lawmakers death photos of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden that President Barack Obama said were too gruesome to be released to the public.Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, said he was shown 15 photographs taken of bin Laden after he was killed in a US commando raid on May 2.In an interview with American TV, Inhofe

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WASHINGTON: US official has revealed that assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week was large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by local troops.According to the official, two teams of specialists were on standby in this regard.He said that Obama while reviewing the plans insisted to increase the troops for the protection of assault team, after which two extra

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Al Arabiya:  It is not surprising that the United States found in Osama Bin Laden’s Pakistan house videotapes and films documenting his activities, such as the video in which he appeared in his unkempt beard watching himself of a TV monitor with passion and holding a remote control.The United States may not find much in Bin Laden’s house except some media and cultural content. The US may have

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AWA: The United States released several videos seized during a Special Forces raid on Osama Bin Laden’s house in Pakistan, an “active command and control center” where the Al Qaeda leader maintained strategic and operational control of the organization in the proximity of the country’s national military academy, a senior US intelligence official said on Saturday.The official, who released five

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WASHINGTON: Dramatic pictures have been released of US President Barack Obama watching live footage of the operation that killed Osama bin Laden.Photographs issued by the White House show the president and other members of his team looking tense as they watch live video of the mission as it happened.US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is shown with a particularly anxious expression, with both

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WASHINGTON: When one of Osama bin Laden's most trusted aides picked up the phone last year, he unknowingly led US pursuers to the doorstep of his boss, the world's most wanted terrorist.That monitored phone call, recounted Monday by a US official, ended a years-long search for bin Laden's personal courier, the key break in a worldwide manhunt. The courier, in turn, led US intelligence to a walled

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WASHINGTON: Pakistani ambassador to US promised a "full inquiry" Monday into how Pakistani intelligence services failed to find Osama bin Laden in a fortified compound just a few hours drive from Islamabad."Obviously bin Laden did have a support system, the issue is was that support system within the government and the state of Pakistan or within the society of Pakistan?" ambassador Husain

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By ABEER TAYEL: World leaders lauded the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a firefight with a team of US operatives, who raided the compound where he had been hiding, not from Pakistan’s capital in Pakistan.President Barack Obama of the United States announced the killing of Mr. bin Laden in a televised speech from the White House late Sunday.The Western-backed Palestinian Authority

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The following is the text of a televised speech given by President Barack Obama from The White House at 11:35 p.m., Sunday, May 1:THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent

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WASHINGTON: Pakistan's ISI chief Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha held an important meeting with the CIA chief on Monday but apparently cut short his visit and was leaving the US capital on Monday night.A Pakistan Embassy official confirmed that Gen Pasha was scheduled to leave Monday night although earlier reports had indicated he may be staying in Washington for three days and leave on April 13.

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Al-Qaeda snatched missiles in Libya: Chad PresidentPARIS : Al-Qaeda's offshoot in North Africa has snatched surface-to-air missiles from an arsenal in Libya during the civil strife there, Chad's president said in an interview to be published Monday.Idriss Deby Itno did not say how many were stolen, but told the African weekly Jeune Afrique that he was "100 percent sure" of his assertion."The

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WASHINGTON: Walnuts are the no. 1 nut for heart health, said the US research that was presented at the American Chemical Society annual meeting.That is because walnuts were found to have more antioxidants -- and better-quality antioxidants -- than other popular nuts tested, the research said.'Nuts are good for heart. They can lower cholesterol, reduce the oxidative stress caused by the free

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LONDON: Extremely low levels of radioactive iodine from the tsunami-hit Japanese nuclear plant have been detected in parts of the UK.A statement from the Health Protection Agency said the "minutest traces of iodine" were being seen in the UK, with low levels detected at monitoring stations in Oxfordshire and GlasgowThe agency said there was no public health risk posed by the iodine, as the

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LONDON: Libya's foreign minister has not been offered immunity following his unexpected arrival in Britain, London said Thursday, while urging other members of Moamer Kadhafi's "crumbling" regime to quit. Mussa Kussa, a former head of Libyan intelligence and one-time ambassador to Britain, arrived "under his own free will" at Farnborough airport southwest of London on Wednesday, British Foreign

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