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No looking back anymore: PML(N)
ISLAMABAD: Ignoring an apology from Pakistan People’s Party leader Asif Ali Zardari who also appealed to it to rejoin the ruling coalition, the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League (N) made it clear on Tuesday there was no looking ...

Breakaway republics get Russia’s recognition
MOSCOW: Russia has recognised Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, thus dramatically upping stakes in its mounting confrontation with the West. President Dmitry Medvedev signed decrees ...

U.S. diplomat survives attempt on life
Islamabad: A top U.S. diplomat on Tuesday escaped unhurt in an attack by unidentified gunmen while she was going to office in her vehicle in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region. Lynne Tracy, Principal Officer in the U.S. ...

Hu thanks world for Games success
SEOUL: Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday the just-ended Beijing Olympic Games had scored a great success with the support and help of the whole international Olympic family. At a luncheon with South Korea’s major ...

U.K. leaders rush to attend Democratic convention
LONDON: There is, apparently, a scramble among British MPs and Ministers to attend the U.S. Democratic Convention in Denver this week, with leading figures from all the three main parties desperately wanting to be seen at what is promised to ...

Rushdie gets apology for defamation
LONDON: Facts were facts and he wouldn’t let anyone mess with them in the name of free speech. That was novelist Salman Rushdie’s argument when he sued the publishers of an unflattering book about him by a former police ...

Khamenei backs Ahmadinejad for another term
DUBAI: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has expressed his support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for another term in office. He praised Mr. Ahmadinejad for standing up to the West and predicted he would retain ...

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China still non-committal
BEIJING: With India and the U.S. rewording the draft waiver ahead of the NSG meet in September, China, a key member of the 45-nation grouping, remained non-committal on supporting the nuclear deal between the two countries, but said it backed ...

Singapore University honours Abdul Kalam
SINGAPORE: Singapore President S. R. Nathan on Tuesday conferred on the former President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, an honorary degree of engineering at a solemn convocation at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) here. The citation, ...




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