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Headlines » 1 billion hungry around the world Published 06/19/2009

19 June 2009 - The number of people on the brink of starvation is set to reach a record high of 1.02 billion - or one-sixth of the global population - in 2009, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projected today.

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» UN probe into Bhutto killing to begin work on 1 July Published 06/19/2009

19 June 2009 - The independent commission tasked with looking into the facts and circumstances surrounding the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will begin its work on 1 July, the United Nations announced today.

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» Pakistan can survive Taliban Published 04/28/2009

An influential member of the Saudi royal family, who headed the country's intelligence service for 25 years, said Monday that Pakistan can survive the Taliban threat provided the military remains intact.

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» Kids - Victims of senseless war Published 01/24/2009

GAZA CITY: It was past noon on Jan 7 when Khaled Hamad Abed Rabo noticed three Israeli tanks in front of his house. One of the soldiers, who spoke Arabic, told the family to get out. Holding a white flag, Khaled stepped outside with his mother, wife and their three daughters - Amal, two, Samar, four and Soad who just turned seven.

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» Obama names envoys Published 01/23/2009

President Obama resurrected the practice of special envoys to troubled regions Thursday in his first foray in diplomacy, tapping former Sen. George Mitchell to lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke as a special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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» Complex law on war crimes

By News Team | Published 01/23/2009 | Politics | Rating:

By Michael Evans

The regulations covering alleged war crimes are complex, carefully worded and restrictive. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague does not appear to have jurisdiction in Gaza because the Israelis are not signatories to the Rome statute that set it up.

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» Then The Change Began

By News Team | Published 01/22/2009 | Politics | Unrated

WASHINGTON - Short on sleep but with a long to-do list, President Obama walked into the Oval Office at 8:35 a.m. Wednesday for 10 contemplative minutes alone.

Then the change began.

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» UN chief Ban visits Gaza, pledges aid

By News Team | Published 01/22/2009 | Politics | Rating:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, voicing shock and anger at the "heartbreaking" devastation, visited the Gaza Strip today to pledge aid for Palestinians after Israeli attacks killed 1300 and made thousands homeless.

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» Question of Fatwa against the State

By Dr. Syed Nazir Gilani | Published 12/16/2008 | Politics | Rating:

On 12 December 2008 it was for the sixth consecutive Friday that people couldn't offer prayers at Jamia Masjid in Srinagar due to the restrictions. Have the authorities in the State failed to provide a habitat which does not interfere in the freedom of religion? This is an important question. Have the members of Indian Security Forces which have entered the territories of the State on 27 October 1947 to perform three stipulated tasks namely to protect 'life', 'honour' and 'property' and act in aid of the State forces, dutifully performed their duty or have drifted away from the contractual obligations ? This is another important question.

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» Time for the President to bid adieu

By Faizah Gilani | Published 08/7/2008 | Politics | Rating:

Mr. unpopular...President Pervez Musharraf. A man once described as charismatic and articulate is now seen as rude, arrogant, power hungry and frankly speaking, losing his marbles. The man who promised to bring Pakistan back on to the road of democracy and enlightenment has shown that his words were hollow. Instead, he has dumped Pakistan into a jungle of uncertainty and instability.

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» No two ways about it - it’s a war crime

By News Team | Published 01/23/2009 | Politics | Rating:

Prof. Gurdial Singh Nijar

For the past two weeks we have been witnessing the daily massacre of Palestinian civilians trapped in Gaza. The latest United Nations report says that Israeli forces evacuated a large number of Palestinians into a single-residence house in Zeitun, warning them to stay indoors, and soon after they shelled the home repeatedly killing some 30 people.

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» Hilary's First 100 Days

By News Team | Published 01/22/2009 | Politics | Rating:

By Steve Kornacki

In his Inaugural Address, President Barack Obama noted that his would be one of the rare presidencies to begin "amidst gathering clouds and raging storms."

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» Can we hope for real change?

By News Team | Published 01/22/2009 | Politics | Rating:

By Marina Mahathir

Swept into power on his campaign for change, just-inaugurated President Barack Obama represents not only the hopes of the US but also of the world.

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» More bombs and troops will not win this war achieve?

By News Team | Published 12/20/2008 | Politics | Rating:

By Peter Beaumont.

WITH each death in Afghanistan - civilian and military - it becomes more of a commonplace to say this is a war that can't be won. The same British officers who said the Taleban had been decapitated say these days there can be no victory of the kind normally envisaged. Yet still more US and British soldiers are heading to this war. Then what?

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» Why I said good bye to JKLF?

By Dr. Shabir Choudhry | Published 07/25/2008 | Politics | Rating:

Time and again people ask me why I left JKLF, or more precisely, why we dissolved the JKLF. They know I have worked hard for the party and jeopardised my future ambitions and academic career because of the JKLF and its ideology. After working so hard and making so many sacrifices why on earth I left the JKLF and became part a of new and smaller party Kashmir National Party.

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