 | US confirms 'outreach' to Taliban |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:59:22 AM |
WASHINGTON; Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that US officials were involved in preliminary talks with the Taliban to seek a political solution to the Afghan war but said .... |
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 | Sri Lanka president rejects US court summons |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:54:12 AM |
| COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapakse has cited constitutional immunity and refused to go before a US court where he is being sued for $30 million over the killing of a Tamil man,.... |
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 | Paris Air Show spotlights fuel cost fears |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:18:55 AM |
| PARIS: Airlines will be seeking a cleaner, cheaper way to fly and planemakers will be angling for billions in new contracts Monday at the Paris Air Show, which stars a solar plane, biofuel j.... |
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 | NATO admits Libya air strike led to civilian deaths |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 9:06:37 AM |
| TRIPOLI: NATO has admitted it destroyed a house in Tripoli in which Libyan officials said nine civilians were killed, an incident likely to sow new doubts inside the alliance about its mission.... |
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 | Hackers might face stiffer sentences in U.S. |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 8:57:54 AM |
WASHINGTON: Even before a loosely organized group of hackers broke into the CIA's and Senate's public websites, the White House asked.... |
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 | Syria's Assad to speak after opposition move |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:43:43 AM |
| DAMASCUS: Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad is set to make a major speech after opposition activists announced on Sunday they are setting up a "National Council" to spearhead the str.... |
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 | US ambassador hits back after Karzai criticisms |
| Updated on: Monday, June 20, 2011 12:30:09 AM |
| KABUL: The US ambassador to Afghanistan hit back at President Hamid Karzai's repeated criticisms of foreign forces Sunday in a rare public acknowledgement of tensions underpinning US-Afghan re.... |
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 | India releases oldest prisoner, aged 108 |
| Updated on: Sunday, June 19, 2011 9:21:28 PM |
| LUCKNOW: Prison authorities in India have released the country's oldest inmate, 108-year-old Brij Bihari Pandey, who was convicted of a murder he committed at the age of 84, officials said Sat.... |
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 | US conducting 'outreach' talks with Taliban: Gates |
| Updated on: Sunday, June 19, 2011 7:26:51 PM |
| WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that the US State Department, in tandem with other countries, has been conducting preliminary "outreach" talks with the Taliban in Afghan.... |
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 | Myanmar's Suu Kyi turns 66 in freedom |
| Updated on: Sunday, June 19, 2011 6:58:50 PM |
YANGON: Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi called for peace as she celebrated her 66th birthday on Sunday, her first as a free woman for almost a decade.
She was released fro.... |
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