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Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities directed officials at airports across the country to bar former President Pervez Musharraf from going abroad.
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015 and his hosts are now hoping for a future Labour government to help break the impasse, a media report says.
Sunday
Beijing: The massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in Tibet was result of "aggressive expansion" of the colliery in which fewer Tibetans are employed, Tibet's government in exile has alleged, as rescuers found 17 bodies out of the 83 miners buried in the avalanche.
Lahore: Pakistani authroities rejected as "malicious Indian propaganda" reports that Indian prisoner Chamel Singh had died after allegedly being assaulted by jail staff here, saying his death was caused by a sudden stroke and heart attack.
Monday
Male: In a major relief for former President Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldivian High Court stayed temporarily the trial against him in a abuse of power case till it decides legitimacy of the bench of the lower court.
London: Key evidence in the death of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha has been handed over to the legal team representing the Australian radio station behind the hoax call that apparently lead to her suicide.
Tuesday
United Nations: The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first ever arms treaty regulating the $70 billion global arms trade, even as India abstained saying that the draft was "weak" on terrorism and non-state actors.
Berlin: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai wants the elusive Taliban chief Mullah Omar to run for President in next year's election so that people could "vote for or against him".
Wednesday
Kabul: A provincial governor says at least 53 people, including nine attackers, have been killed in a daylong gunbattle in western Afghanistan.
London: Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died in Ireland last year after being denied abortion, may have been saved had the hospital staff not paid "overemphasis" on the welfare of the unviable foetus and "underemphasis" on her deteriorating health, according to an inquiry report.
Thursday
Seoul: North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea says as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.
Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari launched the Pakistan People's Party's election campaign in a low-key manner, invoking the legacy of the Bhutto family while calling on people to back the party in the May 11 election.
Friday
Lahore/Islamabad: In a double blow to former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf, Supreme Court decided to hear a petition seeking his trial for treason even as one of his four nomination papers for May 11 General Election was rejected.
Washington: A staggering 94 per cent of fresh recruits of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) see Jammu and Kashmir as a "fighting front" and hail mostly from Pakistan's Punjab province from families having links with the powerful army and intelligence network, according to a US military report.
Washington: The US received nearly 50,000 packages of H-1B visa applications on the very first day, which is reflective of the sudden surge in demand of the country's most sought after work visas.
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities directed officials at airports across the country to bar former President Pervez Musharraf from going abroad.
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London since last June, is unlikely to be able to leave Britain before 2015 and his hosts are now hoping for a future Labour government to help break the impasse, a media report says.
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Wellington: Police say they have charged two men and are not seeking anyone else over an attack on New Zealand cricketer Jesse Ryder, who gave a thumbs up to family members in the hospital as his condition improves.
Sunday
Beijing: The massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in Tibet was result of "aggressive expansion" of the colliery in which fewer Tibetans are employed, Tibet's government in exile has alleged, as rescuers found 17 bodies out of the 83 miners buried in the avalanche.
Lahore: Pakistani authroities rejected as "malicious Indian propaganda" reports that Indian prisoner Chamel Singh had died after allegedly being assaulted by jail staff here, saying his death was caused by a sudden stroke and heart attack.
Monday
Male: In a major relief for former President Mohamed Nasheed, the Maldivian High Court stayed temporarily the trial against him in a abuse of power case till it decides legitimacy of the bench of the lower court.
London: Key evidence in the death of Indian-origin nurse Jacintha Saldanha has been handed over to the legal team representing the Australian radio station behind the hoax call that apparently lead to her suicide.
Tuesday
United Nations: The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first ever arms treaty regulating the $70 billion global arms trade, even as India abstained saying that the draft was "weak" on terrorism and non-state actors.
Berlin: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai wants the elusive Taliban chief Mullah Omar to run for President in next year's election so that people could "vote for or against him".
Wednesday
Kabul: A provincial governor says at least 53 people, including nine attackers, have been killed in a daylong gunbattle in western Afghanistan.
London: Indian dentist Savita Halappanavar, who died in Ireland last year after being denied abortion, may have been saved had the hospital staff not paid "overemphasis" on the welfare of the unviable foetus and "underemphasis" on her deteriorating health, according to an inquiry report.
Thursday
Seoul: North Korea has moved a medium-range missile to its east coast, South Korea says as the United States strengthened its Pacific missile defences amid intensifying threats from Pyongyang.
Karachi: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari launched the Pakistan People's Party's election campaign in a low-key manner, invoking the legacy of the Bhutto family while calling on people to back the party in the May 11 election.
Friday
Lahore/Islamabad: In a double blow to former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf, Supreme Court decided to hear a petition seeking his trial for treason even as one of his four nomination papers for May 11 General Election was rejected.
Washington: A staggering 94 per cent of fresh recruits of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) see Jammu and Kashmir as a "fighting front" and hail mostly from Pakistan's Punjab province from families having links with the powerful army and intelligence network, according to a US military report.
Washington: The US received nearly 50,000 packages of H-1B visa applications on the very first day, which is reflective of the sudden surge in demand of the country's most sought after work visas.