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News for Sunday, 17 Jul 2011

Substandard drugs swarm the market

The business of spurious drugs is flourishing in the markets of Islamabad and Rawalpindi right under the nose of health authorities, as billions of rupees’ worth imported drugs are available...

Islamabad police have only four explosive detectors

The capital police who are tasked with protecting the lives of 1.5 million inhabitants of the city that has faced 21 terrorist attacks from 1995 to 2010 claiming the lives...

Capital in dire need of pedestrian bridges

The Zero Point Interchange (ZPI) project inaugurated by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani a few days ago will have little success in reducing the miseries of motorists if the Capital...

Saudi detains two Omani women drivers

Two Omani women were detained for driving in Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to take to the wheel, Saudi media reported on Sunday. Police detained the two women...

Murdoch faces calls for British media empire break-up

Rupert Murdoch faced calls Sunday for the break-up of his British empire despite issuing a second public apology for the phone-hacking scandal that has gone to the heart of the...

Iran arrests another female reporter

Iran has arrested another female reporter wanting to cover the women’s football World Cup in Germany, a press report said on Sunday, saying she was being held in Tehran’s notorious...

Venezuela’s Chavez heads to Cuba for chemotherapy

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to Cuba on Saturday for an unknown period of time for chemotherapy after giving up some powers and saying doctors had found no malignant cells...

China slams US ‘interference’ after Obama meets Dalai Lama

China accused the United States on Sunday of “grossly” interfering in its internal affairs and seriously damaging relations after President Barack Obama met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama...

Yemeni army, tribes in offensive on militants

Yemeni forces backed by armed tribesmen have launched an offensive to retake Zinjibar, capital of southern Abyan province, officials said on Sunday, after months of fighting with Islamist militants who...

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