Washington: Shocking as it was, the massacre of more than 100 Syrian villagers is unlikely to galvanize a military assault like last year's campaign in Libya to oust Muammar Gaddafi. The killings, however, did provoke the strongest international condemnation the United States and other nations could muster. The US joined more than a dozen nations in expelling Syrian diplomats on Tuesday, and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pushed for further,...
01:59 PM, May 30, 2012
San Felice sul Panaro: Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck on Tuesday, collapsing the roof. At least three employees at the factory - two immigrants and an Italian engineer checking the building's stability - were among those killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region...
02:26 AM, May 30, 2012
Milan: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least three people according to Italian news reports. The United States Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was centered 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Bologna. It hit the same region where a stronger temblor measuring 6.0 earlier this month killed seven people, most when factories working overnight collapsed. The...
01:30 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Astro-enthusiasts in the North-East states of the country are in for a celestial treat tomorrow as they will witness the first solar eclipse of this year. An annular solar eclipse will take place tomorrow which can be seen from the region covering China, most of Russia, South East Asia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hawaii, Arctic regions and North America except the easternmost part, President of Planetary Society of India...
04:10 PM, May 20, 2012
New Delhi: Babies who are breastfed gain less weight over their first year of life compared to babies fed either breast milk or formula from a bottle, according to a U.S. study. The report, in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, is one piece of a growing body of evidence that breastfeeding appears to be the best choice for a newborn and protect against obesity later in life. Lead...
03:47 PM, May 18, 2012
Riyadh: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made clear on Saturday that time is running out for diplomacy over Iran's nuclear programme and said talks aimed at preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon would resume in mid-April. With speculation over a possible US or Israel military attack adding urgency to the next round of discussions in Istanbul set for April 13, Clinton said Iran's "window of opportunity" for...
10:42 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: Newly released Pentagon documents show that Air Force officers debated briefly about burial at sea before concluding that 1,321 unidentifiable fragments of remains from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon should be treated as medical waste and incinerated. A string of emails running from August 5 to 7, 2002, reveals that an unidentified Air Force colonel suggested scattering the already cremated remains at sea. A second official - a...
08:47 AM, Mar 31, 2012
Washington: Kashmiri separatist Ghulam Nabi Fai was on Friday sentenced to two years in jail by a US court on charges of illegally working for Pakistani spy agency ISI to influence American policy on Kashmir. 62-year-old Fai was sentenced to 24 months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release by a court in Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. Judge Liam O'Grady also asked Fai not to...
10:39 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Observing that the Indian defence sector is going to be a big market in the long term, the US on Thursday asked the American companies participating in the Defexpo to know and understand the procedures here for future business. More than 20 US companies including some of the big names like Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman are participating in the Defexpo. Inaugurating the US pavilion at the...
10:24 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday said it would explore the possibility of getting Russian funding for a multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project with Iran after a leading Chinese bank backed out of the venture over fears of sanctions imposed by Western countries. "Pakistan's technical delegation will visit Moscow early next month to have discussions on this subject," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told a weekly news briefing in response to a...
05:31 PM, Mar 29, 2012
Los Angeles: Mitt Romney hit back at Russia's president on Tuesday and said President Barack Obama is trying to "ingratiate himself with the Kremlin" after the foreign leader suggested the Republican presidential front-runner was living in a bygone era and that all the candidates should "use their heads". "The Russians clearly prefer to do business with the current incumbent of the White House," Romney wrote in an opinion piece on...
10:41 PM, Mar 28, 2012
Washington: An estimated 240,000 Indian immigrants are among 11.5 million foreigners living illegally in the United States without proper immigration documents, according to latest official figures. The flow of Indians coming clandestinely to the US has, in fact, doubled between 2000 and 2011, said the latest report by the US Department of Homeland Security. During the same period the total number of illegal foreign immigrants increased from 8.46 million to...
11:07 AM, Mar 24, 2012
Washington: The White House has asked Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive action plan for implementing steps on reconciliation and accountability as asked by a resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva. "The US urges the Sri Lankan government to develop a comprehensive action plan for implementing steps on reconciliation and accountability, as called for in the resolution, and to work with UN experts and its...
09:55 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Washington: The US is in touch with several countries including India and Turkey to how to "significantly reduce" their dependence on Iranian oil to avoid American sanctions in this regard, a State Department official said. "We are working hard with India to see if we can help with regard to reducing the country's dependence and the dependence of any of the other countries on Iranian crude, and looking at alternative...
08:26 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Geneva: The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva began debating a resolution against Sri Lanka on alleged war crimes on Thursday with a vote also expected later. The US-backed resolution urges Colombo to investigate alleged war crimes during the last stage of its military action against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Sri Lanka is strongly lobbying against the resolution moved by the US, France and Norway,...
04:04 PM, Mar 22, 2012
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