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News for Wednesday, 3 Aug 2011

Fear stalks Chinese residents in Kashgar after attacks

The deserted streets and shuttered shops in the usually bustling Chinese areas of Kashgar city on Wednesday stand as testament to the splintered ethnic lines in the western region of...

Asia’s top women keep it in the family

Thailand’s first female prime minister will this week join a long list of Asian women leaders whose power stems from family ties, with analysts saying the trend is a mixed...

UN divided as tanks besiege Syrian cities

Hundreds of tanks and troop carriers were deployed on Wednesday near the Syrian protest hubs of Deir Ezzor and Hama, activists said, as the UN Security Council was to meet...

Five abducted Bangladeshis freed in Afghanistan

Five Bangladeshis abducted in Afghanistan by unidentified gunmen have been released, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry’s spokesman said the gunmen shot dead one Bangladeshi engineer while...

At loggerheads

The PPP-led federal government and the judiciary have been at loggerheads with each other lately to ascertain their supremacy. The judiciary is taking up all those cases of...

Et tu, China?

Amidst the hullabaloo of the press attention his visit has received, ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha has reached China on a ‘secret’ mission. This mission, as per tradition,...

Missile falls near Italian ship off Libya

Italy’s defence ministry said Wednesday that an Italian naval ship off Libya reported that a missile fell into the water nearby, but it was unclear whether it had been fired...

Russia delivers 11 MiG jets to India

Russia has dispatched 11 MiG fighter jets to India to equip the aircraft carrier it will deliver next year, head of the MiG corporation Sergei Korotkov said Wednesday. “We have...

India wants constructive ties with Pakistan: Krishna

India on Wednesday said it wishes to have constructive relations with Pakistan but wants an environment free from terror and “credible” action to be taken against anti-India militant leaders such...

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