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INTERNATIONAL

Taro Aso concedes defeat in election
People’s considered choice, says Hatoyama

Riyadh not to change terror policy
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Interior Minister, Prince Naif bin Abdulaziz, has said a suicide bomber’s attempt on the life of his son on Thursday night will not change the Kingdom’s counter-terrorism strategy which leaves options ...

China gains by ban on plastic bags
BEIJING: A little more than one year after a nationwide ban on plastic bags came into force, China has saved the equivalent of three million tonnes of crude oil thanks to a huge reduction in the use of plastic, said a government ...

14 policemen die in Swat blast
ISLAMABAD: At least 14 policemen were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police training ground in Mingora, the main city in North-West Frontier Province district of Swat on Sunday morning. The attack, the deadliest in Swat ...

Jha refuses to retake oath
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Vice-President Paramananda Jha on Sunday refused to re-take his oath of office and secrecy though the government prepared the ceremony at the President’s office on Sunday. Mr. Jha was invited by the ...

Olmert indicted
JERUSALEM: The former Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, was on Sunday indicted on corruption charges, the first criminal indictment ever filed against a current or past Israeli Prime Minister.— ...

India & World
Oxford dragged into ‘land-grab’ scam
LONDON: Oxford University finds itself dragged into an alleged land-grab scam in Maharashtra, where it plans to set up its first overseas campus, said to be a favourite project of its outgoing Vice-Chancellor John Hood. The campus, part ...

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