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Bloodbath in Iraq amid political impasse
51 killed, scores injured in suicide blast in Baghdad

Nepal poll may be postponed

Confusion over casualties, says Gotabhaya
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday said civilian casualties in the Eelam War IV, waged from August 2006 to May 2009, were being confused with the LTTE causalities. Testifying before Lessons Learnt and ...

Uproar over photos of prisoners
Jerusalem: A former Israeli soldier's Facebook page has provoked outrage after she posted pictures of herself on duty posing next to handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinians. The photographs are part of a Facebook photo album entitled: The ...

Obama in firing line over mosque comments
Washington: The latest political casualty of the sizzling controversy around the Ground Zero mosque, as it has come to be known, might be none other than President Barack Obama. After he broke months of silence on the issue last week and ...

Sochi summit today
MOSCOW: Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev will host a second quadripartite summit with the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan to discuss security, terrorism, drugs and economic cooperation in the region. At a one-day ...

Julia Gillard favours timeline for republic
SINGAPORE: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday proposed that her country turn into a republic at the time of succession to Queen Elizabeth II in Britain. She set this timeline while responding to a question in a network ...

Honeymoon over as U.K. coalition completes 100 days
LONDON: Public support for Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government is haemorrhaging as it completes its first 100 days in office this week with 57 per cent of the voters expressing disappointment with its performance and only 14 ...

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