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News for Tuesday, 13 Sep 2011

Sex abuse victims urge Hague court to investigate Pope

Lawyers for victims of sexual abuse by the clergy have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for...

Egypt’s former vice-president testifies at Mubarak trial

Egypt’s former intelligence chief who was also briefly vice president, Omar Suleiman, began giving testimony on Tuesday at the trial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, who is charged with conspiring...

Yemen Qaeda affiliate most dangerous: CIA chief

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, has emerged as the “most dangerous” affiliate of the extremist group as the terrorism threat shifts to outside South Asia, CIA...

Iran orders release of US men jailed as spies

An Iranian court has ordered the release on bail of two American nationals convicted of espionage, their lawyer said on Tuesday, adding they would be allowed to leave the Islamic...

US envoys head back to Middle East

Two senior U.S. envoys will return to the Middle East this week in hopes of reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and averting a Palestinian bid to seek U.N. recognition of their...

‘No need’ for Iranian nuclear arms: Ahmadinejad

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted on Tuesday that his country has “no need” for nuclear weapons, amid new concerns from an international atomic watchdog group about Tehran’s atomic ambitions. “We do...

Gunmen slay 22 Shia pilgrims in west Iraq

Gunmen killed 22 Shia Muslim pilgrims on their way to Syria as they were passing through a predominantly Sunni Iraqi province from the shrine city of Karbala, officials said on...

Body formed to expedite Karachi-Hyderabad motorway

Finance and Economic Affairs Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Tuesday formed a Coordination Committee to expedite the build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects and to attract serious local and international parties for...

Power outages claim 4 patients’ lives

At least four patients on ventilators who were needed to be on oxygen owing to their condition died at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital due to power outages on Tuesday. The hospital had...

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