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Libya heading for civil war
Despite opposition gains, casualties have been mounting

Unemployment drops in the U.S.
Washington: In positive news that could improve the prospects of the Obama administration, the United States Bureau of Labour Statistics announced on Friday that the net addition to jobs in the U.S. economy was 192,000 during the month of ...

U.K. troops on standby
LONDON: British troops are on stand-by and ready to be deployed in Libya at 24-hours notice to help with humanitarian and evacuation operations. The Ministry of Defence confirmed that a contingent of Scottish troops had been moved to an ...

Social services, stability top China's five-year agenda
BEIJING: China's Premier Wen Jiabao said the government would place top priority on tackling rising inflation and expanding social services, as he unveiled a draft of China's next Five-Year Plan at the start of the annual session of the ...

Former Egyptian Minister put on trial
CAIRO/Muscat/Riyadh/Manama: Egypt's once feared former Interior Minister, Habib al-Adly, pleaded not guilty to corruption charges on Saturday, in the first trial of a member of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime while Oman's Sultan Qaboos ...

Former Nepal Premier Bhattarai passes away
Kathmandu: The former Nepal Prime Minister and founding member of the Nepali Congress, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai died on Friday night. He was 87. Groomed in politics in Varanasi in the 1940s, Mr. Bhattarai actively fought against the Rana ...

Maoists join Nepal government
Kathmandu: Four weeks after supporting Jhalanath Khanal to become Prime Minister in Parliament, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) finally joined the government on Friday. According to the power sharing deal worked out between ...

Zardari seeks patience on fanaticism
Kayani does not condemn killings fearing revolt in Army

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