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image ISLAMABAD: Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal will arrive here on a two-day long official visit on January 6 under an scheduled programme. |
A daily update on terrorism and security issues. Skip to next paragraph. Ariel Zirulnick. Middle East Editor. Ariel Zirulnick is the Monitor's Middle East editor, overseeing regional coverage both for CSMonitor. |
SYDNEY: All 52 passengers were airlifted on Thursday from a Russian research vessel icebound in Antarctica and are safe on board an Australian supply ship, rescuers said. |
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Pakistan fast bowlers Junaid Khan and debutant Bilawal Bhatti made late strikes to leave Sri Lanka on 186-4 on the third day of the first test Thursday an overall lead of seven runs. |
ISLAMABAD, Jan 2 (APP): Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar has resigned as Convener of the Transition/ Management Committee of Sheikh Zayed Hospital. |
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants in Somalia said on Thursday that they carried out the triple bombing on a Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 11 people. |
THE health of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, in a coma for nearly eight years, worsened yesterday, Israeli media said. |
A school girl who was gang-raped on two consecutive days in October and who died on Tuesday after being set ablaze by two of the accused was pregnant with the child of one of the alleged rapists, the police said. |
BANGKOK, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's pro-government Red Shirt activists said Thursday they will gather en masse and counter anti- government protesters who have planned to "shut down" the Thai capital on Jan. 13. |
A mysterious explosion which killed a Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was apparently caused by a decades-old booby trap. |
A strike is being observed on Thursday (today) in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province in Pakistan, following Wednesday's suicide attack on a bus of pilgrims. |
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday demanded constitution of an independent medical board to verify Pervez Musharraf's heart ailment, hours after the former military ruler was admitted to an army hospital. |
ISLAMABAD, Jan 02 (NNI): The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) approved on Thursday an increase of 27 paisa per unit in the electricity tariff on account of fuel adjustment for November. |
Manufacturing sectors continued to expand in three largest Central European economies in December but at a slightly slower pace, driven by solid demand for local manufactured goods in the region's key euro-zone export markets. |
image KARACHI: Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) 100 index closed higher on Thursday having 25962.18 shares with a positive change of 353.33 and volume of 257,114,700 shares. |
image CHASHMA: Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Prof. Ahsan Iqbal said Thursday that Pakistan was a legitimate nuclear power and it has right to produce nuclear electricity for economic development of the country. |
QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand (CMC) --West Indies' captain Dwayne Bravo says his players were caught “off guard” by the New Zealand batting assault in the third One Day International (ODI) on Wednesday. |
England have tried and tested many combinations in the ongoing Ashes 2013-14 series against Australia. Every time they have been thumped and now trail 0-4 in the series with the fifth and final Test to begin at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on January 3 ... |
Exeter Chiefs forwards Tom Johnson and Damian Welch have both signed new contracts with the Premiership club. England flanker Johnson, 31, has put pen to paper on a three-year deal to run until 2017, while lock Welch, also 31, has extended his stay by ... |
Jonny Evans has said he is at a loss to explain why Manchester United's home form is so poor. The defending champions were beaten 2-1 by Tottenham on New Year's Day, making Spurs the fourth team to leave Old Trafford with three points after West ... |
image According to American media reports Hollywood actress Kate Winslet has expressed her concern over young stars including former Disney princess Miley Cyrus who seem to have "lost their way". |
James Avery, best known for playing Will Smith's loveable, yet stern Uncle Phil on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," has died. |
According to Indian media reports Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who is a brand ambassador of cosmetic brand L'Oreal, is not keen on encouraging kids to use make up. |
KARACHI: The turn of the new calendar year did not end the miseries of the city's children who continue to be at the risk of the crippling polio disease with the eighth case of 2013 in Sindh only to be confirmed by the authorities in 2014. |
7 cases surfaced in Punjab, 8 in Sindh, 10 in K-P, total of 60 from FATA - out of which 31 were from North Waziristan. By Our Correspondent. |
WASHINGTON : Apple said Tuesday it had no “backdoor” in its products after a security researcher and a leaked document suggested the US National Security Agency had unfettered access to the iPhone. |
New data from the Pew Center for Internet and American Life released this week show that Facebook's strongest growth over the past year has come from users over the age of 65, as more older users sign onto the site to keep in touch with their friends, ... |
(NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A new study shows dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving increases the risk of a crash, especially for newer drivers. |
Skype Twitter account hacked, anti-Microsoft status retweeted more than 8,000 times. "It appears the official Skype Twitter account has been compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army," The Verge reports. |
A helicopter on Thursday rescued all 52 passengers from a research ship that has been trapped in Antarctic ice since Christmas Eve, after weather conditions finally cleared enough for the operation. |
image ISLAMABAD: An Iranian aerospace official says the country plans to launch an indigenously designed and manufactured satellite into orbit in early February. |
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