Washington: Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who exposed the US government’s top-secret surveillance programs, fought back against his critics on Monday and denied allegations that he was a spy for China.
Snowden told an online forum run by Britain’s Guardian newspaper that he revealed the programs in part out of disappointment with President [...]
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Enniskillen (UK): Despite having serious differences in their views on Syria at G8 summit, US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to a common “peaceful” end to the civil war and push ahead the two day summit in Ireland.
The two day G8 summit held at Lough Erne, County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland [...]
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London: In a remarkable admission that imperial forces tortured Kenyans fighting against British rule in the 1950s, Foreign Secretary William Hague on Thursday announced that the government would pay about $30 million in compensation to more than 5,000 victims of abuse in its former East African colony.
While Hague said the government regretted the abuses, some [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will on Friday meet in California to discuss trade and cyber attacks.
It is the Chinese President’s first official visit to the US since he assumed office in March.
Some Chinese are, however, disappointed that first lady Michelle Obama won’t be on the trip.
The first lady’s [...]
Fort Hood (US): An Army psychiatrist accused of gunning down soldiers waiting to deploy to Afghanistan at a Texas Army post said on Tuesday his defence would show that he was compelled to do so because the soldiers posed an imminent danger to Taliban fighters.
The military judge responded that Major Nidal Hasan’s “defence of others” [...]
Washington: North Korea may be just one to two months away from following through on its threat to restart a plutonium reactor that can produce fissile material for nuclear bombs, a US research institute said on Monday.
But the North’s ability to put the five megawatt reactor back to work will depend on the availability of [...]
Washington: In an attempt to recover from a disappointing presidential debate, President Barack Obama blasted his Republican challenger for not being “the real Mitt Romney” by contradicting his own beliefs.
In campaign appearances after the debate, Obama said the Romney he met on the stage on Wednesday night was not the same Romney he knew.
“When I [...]
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Beijing: Rescuers have found the bodies of all 18 children buried when a landslide engulfed their primary school in China as they made up classes lost due to recent deadly earthquakes, state media said on Friday.
The landslide, triggered by sustained rains, buried the school and three farmhouses on Thursday in the village of Zhenhe in [...]
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Denver, Colorado: Mitt Romney aggressively pressed President Obama on the economy, jobs and health care in a debate Wednesday that avoided the kind of one-liners that sometimes emerge from the high-stakes face-offs between the candidates to lead America.
For Mr. Romney, the stakes were particularly high in his first debate against the president. The two men [...]
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Beirut: Turkish artillery fired on Syrian targets on Wednesday after shelling from Syria struck a border village in Turkey, killing five civilians, sharply escalating tensions between the two neighbors and prompting NATO to convene an emergency meeting.
Our armed forces at the border region responded to this atrocious attack with artillery fire on points in Syria [...]
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Washington: Undeterred by the recent spurt in insiders attacks in Afghanistan, NATO has said Taliban will miscalculate the situation if they think their situation will be better by the end of 2014, because they will be faced with a very strong and capable Afghan security force.
“They will not be in a stronger position. When we [...]
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Hong Kong: Two passenger boats collided on Monday night near Lamma Island off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island, killing 36 people, reports said.
One of the boats, carrying 124 people was a chartered boat packed with revellers who were on a holiday weekend cruise to watch the fireworks display at Victoria Harbour.
The other one, [...]
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New York: India and US hope to take forward their cooperation on Afghanistan following the first US-Afghanistan-India trilateral dialogue, officials said after “positive” talks between External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Meeting here Monday on the sidelines of the ongoing UN general assembly session, Krishna and Clinton “held a positive discussion [...]
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Dhaka: Fuming over a picture of burnt Quran posted on Facebook, Bangladeshi Muslims, numbering thousands, torched at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes on Sunday.
Bangladeshi security officials rushed to control the situation which was restored to normal by Sunday afternoon.
Nojibul Islam, a police chief in the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar said that at [...]
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London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has revealed that he ended up burning his face with a UV lamp just before giving a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, because he did not want to appear past-faced.
He told a newspaper that he was so concerned at his pale complexion caused by his [...]
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