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March 12th, 2010 - 4:57 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, March 12 (DPA) Extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani military in the ongoing fight with insurgents have further added to human rights concerns in the country, the US State Department said ...
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March 11th, 2010 - 6:29 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, March 11 (DPA) The US will not recognise the outcome of Myanmar's elections scheduled for later this year because of new laws that ban political prisoners and the country's leading democratic ...
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March 7th, 2010 - 3:18 pm ICT by IANS
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Islamabad, March 7 (DPA) A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body X-ray scan at a Washington airport, a media report said Sunday.
The six-member group of the ...
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March 7th, 2010 - 2:58 pm ICT by IANS
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Colombo, March 7 (IANS) Sri Lanka has rejected a UN proposal to set up an advisory panel in the wake of alleged human rights abuses during the final phase of the war ...
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March 5th, 2010 - 5:12 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, March 5 (DPA) A US congressional committee Thursday passed a resolution declaring that the World War I-era slayings of more than 1 million Armenians by the Ottomans was a genocide, ...
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March 3rd, 2010 - 4:07 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Mar.3 (ANI): Concerned over reports regarding the misuse of aid being provided to Pakistan, the United States is planning to set-up a separate office for auditors in the country to keep ...
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February 20th, 2010 - 11:35 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Feb 20 (IANS/EFE) The US government has called on Cuban authorities to immediately release American contractor Alan Gross, who has been jailed in Havana since Dec 4 on espionage charges.
Deputy Assistant ...
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February 16th, 2010 - 3:29 am ICT by IANS
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Kuwait City, Feb 16 (IANS) US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned that Iran is "moving toward a military dictatorship", saying the top posts in the country are being "supplanted".
Speaking to ...
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February 13th, 2010 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Feb.13 (ANI): The United States has issued a travel warning regarding the threat to American establishments and citizens in South and Central Asia.
The US State Department said that extremist groups ...
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February 13th, 2010 - 9:52 am ICT by IANS
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Beijing, Feb 13 (DPA) North Korean officials are "not eager" to resume six-nation talks on ending their nation's nuclear weapons programme, though they have not ruled out a return to dialogue, a ...
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February 5th, 2010 - 9:24 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Feb 5 (DPA) Sometimes it just takes a panda to soften the tone between rival world powers.
After a series of terse exchanges between the US and China over Taiwan, Internet freedom, ...
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February 5th, 2010 - 5:15 am ICT by IANS
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Bucharest/Washington, Feb 5 (DPA) Romania Thursday approved US plans to build elements of a missile defence shield in the country, marking the first step in a scaled-back version of the system ...
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February 3rd, 2010 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Feb.3 (ANI) : The US State Department has taken a serious note of allegations regarding the five American terror suspects, apprehended last year from Sargodha, being tortured by Pakistani agencies and ...
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January 30th, 2010 - 5:05 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Jan.30 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has claimed that Islamabad has not received a 'single penny' out of the 1.5 billion dollars promised under the Kerry Lugar bill, which ...
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January 30th, 2010 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) The US State department has warned that terror groups may be planning attacks against India and has issued an advisory asking its nationals to be alert while visiting ...
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January 30th, 2010 - 3:22 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 30 (DPA) North Korea has informed the US that it has detained a second American citizen who allegedly entered the Stalinist state through China, the US State Department said Friday.
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January 27th, 2010 - 1:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Lima, Jan 27 (DPA) Close to 2,000 tourists remained trapped near the world-famous Inca citadel of Machu Picchu due to heavy rain and mudslides that have claimed six lives in the southern ...
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January 26th, 2010 - 7:25 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 26 (DPA) The US plans to create thousands of jobs in Haiti by hiring people to help with the cleanup following the earthquake earlier this month, a US official said ...
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January 19th, 2010 - 5:10 am ICT by IANS
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San Francisco, Jan 19 (DPA) Web search giant Google has created a centralised search system for tracking down people missing in the Haitian earthquake, the company announced Monday in a blog posting.
The ...
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January 17th, 2010 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Jan. 17 (ANI): The FBI has admitted that its forensic artists modelled Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's "age-progression images" on a bearded Spanish politician.
The US state department was forced ...
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January 16th, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Jan. 16 (ANI): A U.S. intelligence report, conducted in the wake of the failed Christmas Day flight bombing bid by a British student, has warned that the increasing use of Britain ...
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January 14th, 2010 - 1:10 pm ICT by IANS
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Santo Domingo, Jan 14 (IANS/EFE) Thousands of people awoke in the streets of Port-au-Prince, where they spent the night amid the death and destruction wrought by the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti, ...
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January 13th, 2010 - 7:21 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Jan. 13 (ANI): The White House has expressed concern over the continued delay by Pakistani authorities in issuing and extending visas for hundreds of US officials and contractors.
"I think it remains ...
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January 13th, 2010 - 1:42 pm ICT by ANI
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Beijing, Jan. 13 (ANI): The world's leading search engine, Google, has said it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service.
The Internet giant said the decision followed ...
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January 13th, 2010 - 12:07 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 13 (IANS/EFE) Haiti's ambassador to the US issued an appeal for help here Tuesday after his homeland was rocked by a magnitude-7.0 earthquake.
Raymond Joseph said in an interview with ...
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January 13th, 2010 - 11:49 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 13 (DPA) The US expects "serious loss of life" after the earthquake in Haiti Tuesday, and was moving quickly to assemble disaster relief teams.
The State Department had managed to contact ...
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January 8th, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 8 (IANS/EFE) The US government has denied that one of its contractors who was arrested a month ago in Cuba has any connection to American intelligence agencies, as alleged by ...
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January 7th, 2010 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
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Havana, Jan 7 (IANS/EFE) An American detained in Cuba for alleged links with US secret services was still undergoing interrogation, an official said, adding the accused was not being mistreated.
"I can assure ...
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January 6th, 2010 - 4:06 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Jan 6 (IANS/EFE) Affirming that it was part of the international war against terrorism, Cuba has rejected its inclusion in the list of terrorism-sponsoring nations by the US.
Cuba "has complied, ...
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January 5th, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Jan. 5 (ANI): Despite a senior Pakistani security official warning that a surge in US drone attacks in Pakistan's Tribal Areas "would be a risky step," the US is determined ...
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December 31st, 2009 - 4:55 pm ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Dec.31 (ANI) : The Pakistan Army is planning to acquire 20 Super Cobra combat helicopters from the US to replace its existing fleet.
According to the Pakistan Assistance Strategy Report, which was ...
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December 31st, 2009 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Dec 31 (DPA) At least eight US civilians were killed in an attack on a military base in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, the US State Department said.
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December 31st, 2009 - 4:52 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Dec 31 (DPA) Eight Americans were killed Wednesday in an attack in a military base in eastern Afghanistan, the US State Department said.
Spokesman Ian Kelly did not provide details in the ...
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December 30th, 2009 - 3:51 am ICT by IANS
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Havana, Dec 30 (IANS/EFE) Cuba has allowed US diplomats to meet an American who was arrested here for allegedly distributing mobile phones, laptops and other communication gadgets among dissidents on the communist-ruled ...
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December 30th, 2009 - 2:22 am ICT by IANS
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Beirut, Dec 30 (DPA) Two Lebanese radio stations Tuesday reportedly received calls from a person claiming to represent terrorist network Al Qaeda, threatening bomb attacks within that country.
The calls to the stations ...
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December 26th, 2009 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Dec.26 (ANI): A US State Department report has warned that the financial assistance to Pakistan would be suspended if the funds are misused or misdirected.
The Department, in its Pakistan Assistance Strategy ...
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December 18th, 2009 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Dec. 18 (ANI): Expressing serious concerns over the deliberate delay caused by the Pakistani authorities in issuing visas to American officials, the US State Department has said that such a move ...
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December 18th, 2009 - 5:27 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Dec 18 (DPA) Pakistan has been holding up visas for US officials and contractors and continued delays could have an "impact" on the effectiveness of aid programmes in the country, ...
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December 17th, 2009 - 4:19 am ICT by IANS
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Washington, Dec 17 (DPA) Iran's test of a medium-range missile raises questions about Tehran's peaceful ambitions in the region and the nature of its nuclear programme, the US State Department said Wednesday.
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December 16th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
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Copenhagen (Denmark), Dec. 16 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has condemned Iran's latest missile test and warned that country that it could face tougher sanctions.
Brown discussed the development when he ...
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