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News for Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011

PEPCO to be replaced with NDTC

Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) will be replaced with National Dispatch & Transmission Company (NDTC) after finalising an agreement with international institutions from June 30. As per media reports, the final...

Israel arrests four Hamas members

Israeli troops on Tuesday arrested four Hamas members, including an MP, in the northern West Bank, Palestinian security sources and officials from the Islamist group said. Hamas MP Nasser Abdel Jawwad...

Sudanese leader Bashir arrives late in China

Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir arrived in China on Tuesday for talks with President Hu Jintao, as the United States and rights groups criticised Beijing for hosting an alleged war criminal....

Evacuations as fire threatens top US nuclear lab

The top US nuclear research lab was ordered to stay closed Tuesday after flames reached it and the local town began evacuating, though all high-risk materials were safe, officials said...

Syrian opposition in rift over Damascus meeting

Anti-regime activists behind street protests in Syria on Tuesday criticised opposition figures who held an unprecedented meeting in Damascus at which they called for a peaceful uprising. “As a matter...

Iran says it showed Russia the US drones it downed

Iran has shown Russia US drones it shot down over the Gulf, Revolutionary Guards aerospace commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh was quoted as saying on Tuesday. “Russian experts requested...

Saudi Arabia to remove most troops from Bahrain

Saudi Arabia is to withdraw most of its security forces from Bahrain starting on Monday after deciding the situation is calmer in the Gulf Arab country after protests in February...

Turkish parliament opens amid opposition boycott

Turkey’s new parliament opened in a tense atmosphere Tuesday as the main opposition and Kurdish deputies boycotted the ceremony in protest over lawmakers kept in prison. It was hardly the...

Wen in Germany, warns against rights lectures

Germany and China held their first joint cabinet meeting Tuesday and were to ink billions in new business contracts, but Premier Wen Jiabao warned Europe against interfering in its internal...

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