By NVONews.Com International Correspondent, Cairo: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Sunday decision to clip the wings of the army has generally been welcomed by politicians––several of them even opposed to Muslim Brotherhood––as well as academics though there is no dearth of people who were surprised by it. Not only that some legal experts even questioned its [...]
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Rio de Janeiro, Aug 13 (IANS) At least 10 people were killed and 99 injured in a highway accident in Brazil’ s southeastern state of Parana, a fire brigade official said Sunday. The accident occurred Saturday night on the PR-323 highway, between Paicandu and Doutor Camargo, in northern Parana, when two buses collided and a [...]
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Tehran, Aug 13 (IANS) The toll in Saturday’s strong twin quakes in northwest Iran has risen to 306, Fars news agency cited the Iranian health minister as saying Monday. Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi told Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Monday that the number of fatalities in the quake-stricken regions has risen to 306, reported Xinhua. Dastjerdi said that [...]
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Cairo, (IANS/RIA Novosti) Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has deposed the country’s defence minister and a top military officer, pushing them into “retirement” but naming them as presidential advisors. Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the defence minister who headed the military council that ruled Egypt for 17 months after the 2011 ouster of longtime leader Hosni [...]
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Tehran, Aug 12 (IANS) A day after two major earthquakes jolted northwestern Iran, the toll has risen to 300, Fars news agency reported. According to Iranian Seismological Centre, a quake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, with a depth of 10 km, struck Ahar city in the East Azerbaijan province at 4.53 p.m. Saturday, flattening [...]
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Islamabad, Aug 12 (IANS) Saudi Arabia will host an Islamic summit next week to discuss the issue of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, among other matters, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will attend, his spokesman announced Sunday. Saudi King Abdullah has invited the leaders of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to attend the [...]
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Washington, Celebrated Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria paid the price for what he himself called “a terrible mistake” and “a serious lapse” as Time magazine and CNN suspended him for plagiarism. Mumbai-born Zakaria, 48, who became editor-at-large of Time in 2010 and hosted CNN’s flagship foreign affairs show GPS, was suspended by the two media, both [...]
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By NVONews.Com Desk, For the United States and European Union sanctions on Iran are not working on the expected line as Asia’s major crude buyers are finding ways to import oil. According to the International Energy Agency’s Friday (Aug 10) report, estimated exports of Iranian oil had fallen to multi-year lows of one million barrels [...]
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London, Aug 10 (IANS) Four Chinese policemen have admitted covering up the murder of Briton Neil Heywood, a day after the wife of a former top politician was tried for the killing, BBC reported Friday. Heywood was found dead in Chongqing city in November 2011. A court official told reporters that the senior police officers [...]
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Oak Creek (Wisconsin), (IANS) Hundreds of mourners, Sikhs and others, policemen and religious leaders, men and women gathered here Friday to pay their last respects to six worshippers gunned down at a Sikh gurdwara Sunday. With tears in their eyes and pain in their hearts, they filed by six open caskets Friday morning at Oak [...]
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Washington, Five Indian software professionals, all from Hyderabad, died when their car hit a tractor-trailer and burst into flames in a fiery crash on a highway near Oklahoma city Friday. The names of the people killed have not been released, but the Telugu Association of North America (TANA) citing a friend of those killed identified [...]
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New Delhi, (IANS) An Indian from Kerala, who was kidnapped by the Abu Sayyaf militant group in the Philippines last year and was believed to have been killed, was set free recently, official sources said here Friday. Biju Kolara Veetil, who was kidnapped June 2011 in southern Philippines, is now believed to be free and [...]
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Washington, (IANS) Echoing President Barack Obama’s call for “soul searching” over Sunday’s rampage in a Wisconsin gurdwara, Indian ambassador Nirupama Rao has raised questions about the free use of guns in the United States and problems Sikhs have faced in the country whether “in schools or in the workplace”. While as a foreign diplomat she [...]
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Oak Creek (Wisconsin), Aug 9 (IANS) In a clear message of solidarity, Americans of all backgrounds and faith held candlelight vigils from coast to coast to mourn the victims of the gurdwara rampage here. The Sikh Coalition estimated that more than 30 vigils were held across the US Wednesday evening as community groups pushed for [...]
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