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Lalit K Jha Washington, Jan 6 (PTI) Boeing is confident that the US Congress would ratify the largest-ever defence deal it signed with India for the sale of eight P-8I long-range maritime

Islamabad, Jan 6 (PTI) India and Pakistan should cooperate in fighting the common threat of terrorism instead of engaging in any sort of blame game over the Mumbai terror attacks, Information

Rezaul H Laskar Islamabad, Jan 6 (PTI) Pakistan today bristled at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's charge that its official agencies were involved in the Mumbai terror attack saying that such an

Washington, Jan 5 (PTI) With the US reeling under an economic recession, President-elect Barack Obama, who assumes office on Jan 20, today said that an "extraordinary economic challenge" lies

Lalit K Jha Washington, Jan 5 (PTI) US President George W Bush today ruled out any ceasefire in Gaza, saying that such an agreement did not ensure that Hamas would not resume its attack against Israel in future.

Washington, Jan. 6 (ANI): US President-elect Barack Obama has made his first big foreign-policy mistake in pledging U.S. intervention in the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, believes noted South Asian expert Selig S. Harrison.

Washington, Jan.6 (ANI): Senator Jack Reed will accompany Vice President-elect Joe Biden this week on a tour of southwest Asia.

Equating the Palestinian militant group Hamas with the LeT terrorists who attacked Mumbai, the White House has said both were engaged in 'despicable' acts in order to achieve their 'political objectives'.

The only way Steve Jobs & Co. could win the expectations game was to make next week's Macworld Apple's last.

Ed Sperling, Forbes.comData leaks out of a virtual world like water flows from a pipe. One is physical; the other is theoretical. And no matter how many boundaries are constructed around a theoretical world, leakage will occur.

London, Jan.6 (ANI): A London court has learnt that a refugee Faiz Baluch, accused of calling for murder in the name of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army via websites and telephone links, was not a terrorist.

London, Jan 6 (ANI): Budget hotels in the UK have been found to be contaminated with blood, mould, urine and even faeces, an investigation has revealed.

London, January 6 (ANI): Turkey has decided to restore the citizenship of its first and foremost modern poet, Nazim Hikmet.

London, Jan.6 (ANI): There has been a drop in suicide rates in Britain to the tune of 40 percent in the aftermath of terror attacks such as 9/11 and 7/7, scientists in the country have opined.

London, Jan 6 (IANS) Three youths tried to torch a synagogue in London amid a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain and elsewhere in Europe since the Israeli invasion of Gaza, Jewish groups said Tuesday.

Gaza City, Jan 6 (DPA) An Israeli strike on a UN-school in northern Gaza killed at least 42 Palestinian civilians in the deadliest single incident since Israel launched its offensive in the Strip 11 days ago, health officials said.

Gaza, Jan 6 (Xinhua) Ten Palestinians were killed and 20 others wounded Tuesday afternoon when the Israeli army hit a school run by the UN in northern Gaza, emergency officials said.

Damascus, Jan 6 (Xinhua) France's President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday asked Syria to pressure Hamas to return to a ceasefire and help achieve a solution to the escalation in the Gaza Strip.

Dhaka, Jan 6 (IANS) She was initiated into politics through the crucible of one of the world's bloodiest assassinations when her entire family was terminated. More than three decades after that fateful August day in 1975, when the legacy of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman fell on her, Sheikh Hasina has become Bangladesh prime minister for a second term.

Jerusalem, Jan 6 (Xinhua) Israel Tuesday rejected a European Union (EU) request for a 48-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, vowing to push ahead the offensive till security is restored to the south.

Harinder Mishra Jerusalem, Jan 6 (PTI) At least 42 people were killed and scores injured in an Israeli strike on a UN school in Gaza strip, the fourth such attack today, Palestinian medics

Harinder Mishra Jerusalem, Jan 6 (PTI) At least 40 people were killed and scores injured in an Israeli strike on a UN school in Gaza strip, the fourth such attack today, Palestinian medics

Sydney, Jan 6 (IANS) An Australian-Indian woman who set her husband's genitals afire for alleged infidelity has been charged with murder.

Harinder Mishra Jerusalem, Jan 6 (PTI) Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships battled Hamas militants in all major Gaza towns as the country continued to reject appeals to

Kathmandu, Jan 6 (PTI) Protesters today blocked traffic to the world famous Pashupatinath temple, staging rallies in defiance of a ban in force, asking the Maoist government to keep off religion

A U.N. official in Gaza said a school where dozens of Palestinians were killed by tank shells on Tuesday was clearly marked with a U.N. flag and its location had been reported to Israeli authorities.

Russia sharply cut gas flows to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday in a dramatic worsening of a pricing dispute with Kiev that threatened to disrupt supplies as far west as Italy and Germany.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will go to the United Nations on Tuesday to meet Arab ministers as well as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in a bid to get a ceasefire deal in Gaza, the State Department said.

Dhaka, Jan.6 (ANI): Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina Wajed on Tuesday sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Bangladesh after her party-led grand alliance swept the general elections a week ago.

The United States would like to see an immediate cease-fire in Gaza that would hold up over time, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday.