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Google teams with Intel, Sony on new TV platform
March 18th, 2010 - 9:30 am ICT by IANS
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San Francisco, March 18 (DPA) Tired of flipping through hundreds of cable channels to find something to watch? Google may be able to help you.
The web search giant has teamed up with ...
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MJ’s estate signs one of the biggest recording contracts in history
March 16th, 2010 - 3:43 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, March 16 (ANI): Michael Jackson's estate has signed a sweeping contract with Sony following which the record label will have the complete rights to sell the Pop icon's back ...
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McChrystal brings erring US Special Forces in Afghanistan under his direct control
March 16th, 2010 - 12:31 pm ICT by ANI
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Kabul, Mar.16 (ANI): Top American commander in Afghanistan General Stanley A. McChrystal has brought most American Special Operations forces under his direct control for the first time, over concerns on mounting civilian ...
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‘Pak’s arrest of ‘pragmatic’ Taliban leaders source of ‘underlying’ tension with Afghanistan’
March 12th, 2010 - 5:00 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Mar.12 (ANI): Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai might have described Pakistan and Afghanistan as 'co-joined' twins, but experts believe that there is underlying tension simmering between both nations.
Addressing a joint ...
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Kayani, Pasha continue Pak’s traditional anti-India agenda: NYT
March 11th, 2010 - 3:32 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Mar.11 (ANI): The report regarding Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani extending the tenure of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt.Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha by a ...
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Iraqi elections mere window dressing exercise: Middle Eastern experts
March 9th, 2010 - 6:44 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Mar. 9 (ANI): While a high voter turn in Iraq's parliamentary elections has been lauded by the West as a symbolic step towards democracy, critics and political commentators across the ...
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Placido Domingo undergoes colon cancer surgery
March 9th, 2010 - 3:41 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Mar 9 (ANI): Opera singer Placido Domingo has undergone surgery for colon cancer, revealed a spokesman.
The crooner had a cancerous polyp removed last week at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York ...
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Meet Snackbot: robot that serves snacks!
March 7th, 2010 - 1:50 pm ICT by ANI
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London, March 7 (ANI): American scientists have created a new robot that can deliver snacks.
Paul Rybski and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, came up with the "snackbot" after two years of ...
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U.S. aiding Somalia for major offensive to retake its capital
March 6th, 2010 - 5:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Mogadishu (Somalia), Mar 6(ANI): The United States is aiding the Somali Government, which is preparing a major offensive to finally reassert its control over its capital and bring order to a country ...
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Pentagon gunman believed that US Govt. staged 9/11
March 6th, 2010 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Mar. 6 (ANI): The 36-year-old gunman, who shot at two Pentagon police officers while trying to enter the complex on Thursday evening, might have been suffering from a mental illness that ...
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‘Road, Movie’ first Hindi film to go to Tribeca: Abhay Deol
March 5th, 2010 - 12:21 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, March 4 (IANS) Having already traversed the world festival circuit in places such as Berlin, Tokyo, Toronto and Doha, Abhay Deol's "Road, Movie" has been selected for the Tribeca ...
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Net beats newspapers as news source, US study finds
March 2nd, 2010 - 6:15 am ICT by IANS
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San Francisco, March 2 (DPA) More Americans get their news from the internet than from either newspapers or radio. But television is still the most popular news source, according to a ...
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Did Anderson Cooper Meet With CBS Execs To Discuss Anchor Job?
March 2nd, 2010 - 3:59 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
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Mar 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In an article by The New York Times, Brian Stelter mentioned that in his interview with Bill Carter it was reported that Anderson Cooper met with CBS. The ...
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New York Times launches news supplement in Bosnia and El Salvador
March 2nd, 2010 - 2:01 am ICT by BNO News
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NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) – The New York Times announced on Monday the launching of its international news supplement in Dnevni Avaz in Bosnia and La Prensa Gráfica in El Salvador.
The weekly ...
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Record-breaking snow is due to global warming, says Al Gore
March 1st, 2010 - 5:17 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, March 1 (ANI): Al Gore, the former vice president of the US, has said that the record-breaking snow is not an indication that global warming is a hoax, rather it is ...
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Lost Descartes letter found after nearly two centuries in Pennsylvania
March 1st, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Mar. 1 (ANI): Thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s. An Italian mathematician stole them.
Among them were 72 letters written by Frenchman ...
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US troops finishing sweeps in Afghanistan, starting rehabilitation process
March 1st, 2010 - 3:00 pm ICT by ANI
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Kabul, Mar. 1 (ANI): American Marine units are finishing sweeps of contested ground in Afghanistan, clearing the last stretches of roads of hidden bombs, and reinforcing hastily erected patrol bases and ...
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Prodigious Obama fundraiser is new White House social secretary
March 1st, 2010 - 2:50 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Mar. 1 (ANI): Julianna Smoot, a prodigious fundraiser for President Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign for office, has been appointed the new White House social secretary.
Smoot was the ...
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America’s newest senator wore pink shorts on his first date!
February 28th, 2010 - 4:45 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Feb 28 (ANI): Scott Brown, the recently elected senator from Massachusetts, donned pink leather shorts on his first date with his future wife, his daughter has revealed.
Brown hit the headlines last ...
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Marja offensive tactical prelude to massive blitz later this year in Kandahar
February 27th, 2010 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb. 27 (ANI): While the US forces are speeding up their offensive to oust Taliban insurgents from Marja, they are already planning to extend the campaign to Kandahar, the Taliban's ...
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US media welcomes ‘first step’ in India-Pakistan talks
February 26th, 2010 - 11:21 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Feb 26 (IANS) The US media saw Thursday's secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan as a "first step" with broad agreement that even if there was no breakthrough as expected ...
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CIA, ISI fighting war on terror together without mutual trust: NYT
February 25th, 2010 - 7:25 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Feb. 25 (ANI): While America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are apparently working together on crucial anti-terror operations in the region of the Pak-Afghan border, they ...
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Indo-Pak talks a ‘political risk’ for Manmohan Singh: Analysts
February 25th, 2010 - 12:45 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Feb.25 (ANI): As India and Pakistan return to the dialogue table after a 14 month long hiatus on February 25, analysts believe resuming deliberations with Islamabad after the Mumbai ...
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ABC News to layoff 25 percent editorial staff
February 24th, 2010 - 10:08 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Feb 24 (IANS) US broadcasting giant ABC News will downsize its editorial team and layoff up to 350 staff members, media reports said.
In a "fundamental transformation", ABC News announced Tuesday ...
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Arrest of crucial Taliban figures reflects mysterious shift in Islamabad’s policy: NYT
February 23rd, 2010 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Feb. 23 (ANI): While Pakistan's motive behind the recent arrests of top Taliban leaders Mullah Kabir and Mullah Baradar remains unclear, the shift in Islamabad's policy towards the Taliban is ...
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Afghan soldiers lagging behind international forces in Operation Moshtarak
February 21st, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
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Marjah (Afghanistan), Feb 21(ANI): As the NATO and Afghan soldiers fight their way into the Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, the performance of the Afghan troops have been tested to the ...
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US media’s mixed response to Woods’ apology
February 21st, 2010 - 2:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): US media has responded to Tiger Woods' public apology over his extra-marital affairs with both respect and sarcasm.Some in the industry have applauded the golfer's courage to ...
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Chinese school denies involvement in Google cyber attacks
February 20th, 2010 - 9:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Jinan (China), Feb 20 (IANS) A Chinese vocational school blamed for staging cyber attacks on Google and other firms said Saturday the allegations are unfounded.
"An investigation has found no attacks originated from ...
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‘Family Guy’ actress with Down Syndrome hits back at Sarah Palin
February 20th, 2010 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Feb 20 (ANI): Voice actor Andrea Fay Friedman, who suffers Down Syndrome, has fired back at Sarah Palin by saying the former Alaskan governor needs to chill out.
Friedman, 39, ...
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Chinese military refutes link to cyber attack on Google
February 20th, 2010 - 2:11 pm ICT by ANI
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Beijing, Feb.20 (ANI): Senior Chinese military experts and educators have dismissed reports suggesting that the military was in any way involved in cyber attacks on Internet search giant Google.
In a Thursday report, ...
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Drones’ emerging as NATO’s most versatile tool on Afghan battlefield
February 20th, 2010 - 11:59 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb 20(ANI): With the US and allied forces flying at least 20 Predator drones, twice as many as a year ago, over vast stretches of the Afghan territory each day, ...
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Baradar’s capture, Marja camapign unlikely to break Taliban will: NYT
February 19th, 2010 - 2:19 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad/Kabul, Feb.19 (ANI): The capture of Mullah Baradar, the deputy commander of the Afghan Taliban, in Karachi recently, and the ongoing the Marja campaign is unlikely to break the Taliban's will ...
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Afghan Taliban leaders arrest exposes use of Pak as a sanctuary: NYT
February 19th, 2010 - 2:02 pm ICT by ANI
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Kabul, Feb.19 (ANI): The recent arrest of two Taliban governors in Pakistan, while representing a significant blow to the Taliban's leadership, also demonstrates the extent to which Taliban leaders have been ...
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Nabbing Baradar could alter Pak’s calculus, deal blow to Afghan Taliban: NYT
February 19th, 2010 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb.19 (ANI): The capture of Afghan Taliban deputy chief Mullah Baradar in Karachi could not only alter Pakistan's calculus about the volatile region, but also deal a blow to the ...
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China, India broadens ties with Nepal for its geopolitical significance
February 18th, 2010 - 3:47 pm ICT by ANI
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Kathmandu, Feb 18(ANI): Analysts believe that China, which once regarded Nepal with intermittent interest, is now exerting itself more due to concerns that Nepal could become a place of Tibetan agitation.
"Nepal ...
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Discovery of stone tools at Crete pushes seafaring back by 130,000 years (Re-Issue)
February 18th, 2010 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): Discoveries made during the last two summers on the Greek island of Crete have revealed stone tools dating back to 130,000 years, which is being considered strong evidence ...
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Top Taliban commander arrested, Pakistan army confirms
February 17th, 2010 - 10:28 pm ICT by IANS
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Islamabad, Feb 17 (IANS) The Pakistani army confirmed Wednesday that Taliban's top commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was captured in a joint raid by the US and Pakistani intelligence in Karachi.
"At ...
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White House adviser says U.S. unemployment rate is stable
February 17th, 2010 - 7:55 pm ICT by BNO News
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- One of President Obama's economic advisers on Wednesday said the U.S. unemployment rate looks stable, while White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended the stimulus bill on ...
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US officials says top Taliban leader’s capture a turning point
February 17th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by IANS
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By Arun Kumar
Washington, Feb 17 (IANS) A top Afghan Taliban military leader's capture in Pakistan represents a turning point in the US-led war against the militants and is also potentially a ...
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Mullah Baradar’s arrest, a shift in Pak’s policy?
February 17th, 2010 - 12:22 pm ICT by ANI
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New York, Feb.17 (ANI): The arrest of Taliban's second in command, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, marks a strategic change in Pakistan's policy, and analysts believe that it may also prove to ...
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