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In North Korea, third Kim’s bloodline all that matters
Reuters – Smarting from a failed rocket launch, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has little choice but to stick to his father’s playbook of milking an impoverished country to develop…
Scandal mars Obama’s wooing of Latin America
Reuters – A prostitution scandal involving U.S. security personnel in Colombia and an unprecedented regional push to end the isolation of Cuba threatened on Saturday to eclipse President Barack Obama’s…
Huge quake strikes off Indonesia, tsunami warning issued
Reuters – An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, sending residents around the region dashing out of their homes and offices in fear. A tsunami…
Syrian troops on offensive on deadline day
Reuters – Syrian troops shelled villages, fired across frontiers and were accused of massacres in the hours before a deadline on Tuesday that many doubt can usher in a U.N.-brokered…
US hopes India, Pakistan will build on progress
MSN – Welcoming the Delhi meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, the United States has expressed the hope that the two South Asian neighbours continue…
New visa agreement soon between India and Pakistan: Envoy
MSN – India and Pakistan may finalise a new visa agreement soon to boost business ties between the two countries, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik said here Monday.…
Rahul, Bilawal contact important, says Pakistani daily
YAHOO – The contact between Rahul Gandhi, general secretary of India’s ruling Congress party, and Bilawal Zardari Bhutto, who heads the Pakistan Peoples Party, is “important given that both might…
Kashmir avalanche traps over 100 Pakistan soldiers: army
Reuters – An avalanche slammed into a Pakistani military camp near the disputed Kashmir border with rival India on Saturday, burying more than 100 soldiers, with no sign of survivors…
Manmohan, Zardari to discuss ‘important’ issues
IANS – Although President Asif Ali Zardari is going to India Sunday to pray at the Ajmer Sharif, he will discuss “issues of importance” with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,…
Asian leaders call for lifting of Myanmar sanctions
Agence France-Presse – Asian leaders Tuesday called for Western sanctions against Myanmar to be lifted after its historic polls, as they held summit talks also dominated by North Korea and…