Archive | June 15, 2012

Pakistan would continue to work with Spain to address various challenges: PM Gilani

  (RADIO PAKISTAN)  —  Prime Minister says Pakistan would continue to work with Spain to address challenges such as drug trafficking‚ terrorism and extremism. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that Pakistan would continue to work with Spain to address challenges such as drug trafficking‚ terrorism and extremism. He was talking to outgoing […]

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Russia says no talk on Syria’s post-Assad future

    MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister said Friday that Moscow isn’t discussing Syria’s future without President Bashar Assad as Washington has claimed, in the latest volley in a contentious back-and-forth on how to end the bloody conflict. Sergey Lavrov denied Thursday’s statement by State Departmentspokeswoman Victoria Nuland that Moscow and Washington “are continuing to talk about a post-Assad transition strategy.” Lavrov, who met […]

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Aung San Suu Kyi visits Swiss parliament before Nobel prize

  BERN (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, recovering from a brief illness, attended a session of the Swiss parliament on Friday hours before she was due to fly to Oslo to finally collect her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. The 66-year-old, elected to her country’s parliament in April after two decades under house arrest, listened attentively to the […]

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Europe crisis spreads as Merkel resists big steps

  MILAN (AP) — A growing number of European countries are being squeezed by a financial vise just days before a Greek election that could escalate the region’s political and economic turmoil. The rise of Italian and Spanish borrowing costs to alarming levels Thursday heaped pressure on leaders to prevent Europe’s debt crisis from engulfing […]

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Palestinians maintain UNESCO bid for Nativity church

    (AFP)  —  The Palestinians plan to go ahead with their bid to put one of Christianity’s holiest sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List despite a negative report by experts, their envoy to the body said Thursday. Ambassador Elias Sanbar said the report on the Church of the Nativity was “biased” and “politicised” and […]

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