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INTERNATIONAL
Pakistan lawyers firm on march
LAHORE: As the day of the “long march” to Islamabad draws closer, fuel stations in this city have put up notices refusing to sell more than 25 litres of petrol to customers, apparently on the instructions of the government, which ...

Geo TV blocked
LAHORE: In a throwback to the last months of the Musharraf regime, Geo TV said on Friday its transmission was blocked in several cities across Pakistan. The private television channel alleged that the Pakistan People’s ...

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China ready with more stimulus: Wen
BEIJING: China had prepared plans to cope with even bigger difficulties amid the financial crisis and was ready to put forward a new stimulus package at any time, said Premier Wen Jiabao here on Friday. Mr. Wen, meeting the press after ...

Switzerland breaks with banking secrecy tradition
Will provide information on a case-by-case basis

Colombo assures U.S. of civilian safety
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday that his government would ensure safety of civilians stranded in the last remaining area under the control of the LTTE. According ...

Junk forces astronauts to evacuate space station
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were evacuated to a Russian escape module on Thursday after space junk was spotted hurtling towards the orbiting outpost. NASA officials noticed the object — thought to be an ...

Kundra goes on leave amid FBI probe
Washington: After just a week on the job, President Barack Obama’s Indian-American White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra is said to have gone on leave amid an FBI probe that resulted in a search of his former ...

Huge economic crisis: Medvedev
MOSCOW: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev admitted Russia was facing an “unprecedented” economic crisis amid fears that its fallout may be as devastating as the breakup of the Soviet Union 17 years ago had on the country’s ...

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