July 24, 2012
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Syrian troops fought rebels trying to seize central Aleppo on Tuesday and quelled a jail mutiny on the outskirts of the northern city, killing 15 prisoners, opposition activists said. After a week of battles between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and his opponents in Damascus, fighting intensified in Aleppo, a more populous commercial city that long [...]
July 24, 2012
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The meeting of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet held here Tuesday with Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs, Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh in the chair to discuss matters of national importance and approved a financial package of Rs. 8.6b for PSM. ECC discussed summary regarding financial assistance for PakistanSteel Mills moved by Ministry [...]
July 24, 2012
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Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf took strong exception to the long hours of load shedding in many areas of the country during the last two days despite the fact that the power generation had gone up to around 14000 mw but the people had been facing the same level of load shedding when gap of [...]
July 24, 2012
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Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has called upon the youth to make sincere efforts in order to take country to the heights of glory, which is associated to our past. He expressed these views while addressing to the members of National Youth Assembly Pakistan who called on him here Tuesday at Supreme Court. Chief Justice [...]
July 24, 2012
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RAWALPINDI: Anti Terrorist Court-I (ATC-I) on Tuesday acquitted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz ((PML-N) MNA Anjum Aqeel Khan and 15 other party workers in a case registered against them for allegedly attacking the Shalimar Police Station Islamabad, torturing police personnel and escaping from the police custody. Special Judge of the ATC Chaudhry Habib-ur-Rehman gave the acquittal ruling [...]
July 24, 2012
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Fox is once again betting on an aging superstar diva to revitalize “American Idol.” Mariah Carey, who in her heyday was one of the most popular singers on the planet, has been tapped to replace Jennifer Lopez as a judge on the musical talent show. In a moment of faux drama, Fox Entertainment President Kevin [...]
July 24, 2012
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ASSAM: New clashes took the death toll from ethnic violence in India’s remote northeast to 22 on Tuesday despite an official curfew backed by shoot-on-sight orders, police said. Fighting flared overnight between Bodo tribal groups and Muslim settlers in the west of Assam state, where more than 40,000 villagers have fled their homes to shelter in government buildings, schools and relief camps. [...]
July 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s reply submitted to the court while hearing the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case. The reply filed earlier said that a plea for review of the court’s order should have been filed instead. The court said that the objections raised mentioned those orders that the [...]
July 24, 2012
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Religions professor at the Luther College in Iowa, Robert F. Shedinger, has made a controversial claim in a new book, arguing that Jesus Christ was a Muslim. In the beginning of his book, to be released this year, Shedinger asked “Was Jesus a Muslim?” “I will answer with a very qualified yes,” he wrote. In [...]
July 24, 2012
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At least 3 men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents, underscoring moviegoers’ anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colorado theater showing the film. A Maine man was arrested when he told authorities that he was [...]
July 24, 2012
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LONDON: Thousands of VIPs including some 120 national leaders will jet into London for Friday’s Olympic opening ceremony, with guests ranging from Angelina Jolie and Michelle Obama to the king of Swaziland. The expected record number of heads of state and government will watch the Olympic cauldron lit by a mystery personality in a £27 million ($42 million, 35 million euros) extravaganza of [...]
July 24, 2012
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Officials say the death toll from Iraq’s deadliest day in more than two years has risen to 115. Police and hospital officials said Tuesday that five more people died from injuries sustained in a late-night car bombing Monday near a cafe in a Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity [...]
July 24, 2012
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Unknown gunmen in restive northwest Pakistan Tuesday attacked a container truck carrying supplies to Nato troops in Afghanistan, killing the driver, officials said. It is the first such attack since Pakistan reopened its border to Nato supply convoys three weeks ago after a seven-month blockade staged in protest at a botched US air raid that [...]
July 24, 2012
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WASHINGTON, July 24, 2012 (AFP) – Sally Ride, the first American woman to journey into space, died on Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her foundation announced. She was 61. Ride first launched into space in 1983 aboard Challenger on the seventh mission of US space shuttle program. US President Barack Obama called her a “national [...]
July 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The federation refused to write letter to the Swiss authorities once again in its reply submitted to the Supreme Court, here Tuesday. Attorney general Irfan Qadir submitted the government’s reply in National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) implementation case today confronting with the judiciary again after the disqualification of Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for not [...]
July 24, 2012
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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad it would be a “tragic mistake” to unleash chemical weapons, after Damascus admits it has a stockpile and will use them if attacked. The warning, a first admission by the Syrian regime that it hasweapons of mass destruction, came as regime troops reclaimed to control most of Damascus after a week of [...]
July 24, 2012
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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court here Tuesday resumed the identical petitions against the newly formed contempt Law, seeking record of the law Aaj News reported. A five-judge bench comprising of Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain heard identical petitions filed by lawyers’ bodies and the Pakistan Bar Council. During [...]
July 24, 2012
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MIRANSHAH: A US drone attack on Monday killed at least 10 militants in northwestern tribal area, security officials said. The missiles struck a militant compound in the Shawal area of North Waziristan tribal district on the Afghan border. “US drones fired up to six missiles into a militant compound. The death toll in the drone [...]