Últimes notícies
Últimes notícies
Obama snubs President Zardari over NATO supply routes
May 22nd
CHICAGO: In an unmistakable snub, President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan. The omission speaks to the prolonged slump in U.S. relations with Pakistan that clouded a NATO summit where nations were eyeing the exits in Afghanistan.
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De càrrega ...CVC confirms $1.6 billion Formula One deal
May 22nd
LONDON: Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners confirmed on Tuesday that investors Waddell & Reed , Norges Bank and BlackRock had paid $1.6 billion in cash for a 21 percent stake in the Formula One motor racing business. “We look forward to working with our new partners over the coming years,” said Donald Mackenzie, a managing partner at CVC, calling the investment great news for Formula 1. CVC, which had owned 63.4 percent of the business, said it would continue to be Formula 1′s largest and controlling shareholder.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...NATO endorses strategy to end Afghan war but risks remain
May 22nd
CHICAGO: NATO set an “irreversible” course out of Afghanistan on Monday but President Barack Obama admitted the Western alliance’s plan to end the deeply unpopular war in 2014 was fraught with peril. A landmark NATO summit in Chicago endorsed an exit strategy that calls for handing control of Afghanistan to its own security forces by the middle of next year but left questions unanswered about how to prevent a slide into chaos and a Taliban resurgence after allied troops are gone. The two-day meeting of the 28-nation military bloc marked a major milestone in a war sparked by the September 11 attacks that has spanned three U.S.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Pakistan stocks rally; rupee hits record low
May 22nd
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s stock market rallied on Tuesday with investors picking up cheaper shares on the back of selling last week, dealers said, alongside a record low against the dollar for the local currency.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Police allegedly torture two brothers on behest of rivals
May 22nd
Staff Report GUJRANWALA: Police allegedly tortured two brothers brutally on behest of their rivals in Gujranwala today, SAMAA reported on Tuesday. The police stamped burn signs on the bodies of both brothers with hot iron rods during alleged torture
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...MQM condemns Karachi killings, seeks strong action
May 22nd
Staff Report KARACHI: MQM leader Raza Haroon Tuesday condoled with the families of those killed in firing on a political rally in Karachi. Twelve people were killed and many more were wounded when unknown gunmen opened firing on an Awami Tehrik’s rally in the city
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Israel wary of expected Iran nuclear deal
May 22nd
JERUSALEM: Israel expressed deep suspicion on Tuesday about an expected deal between the U.N.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Bahrain hunger striker attends retrial in wheelchair
May 22nd
DUBAI: Jailed Bahraini activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, on hunger strike for more than three months, was brought to court in a wheelchair on Tuesday when the retrial resumed of 13 men imprisoned over protests that rocked the island last year, activists said.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Ukraine’s bold female fighters plot to storm the Euros
May 22nd
KIEV: Anna darts gleefully around the two sparsely-furnished rooms situated through an archway off a steep street that climbs up from Kiev’s Independence Square. She is a general showing off her new headquarters. “This is going to be our training room for our Euro strikes,” she says
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Rebels kidnap Lebanese Shi’ites in Syria: families
May 22nd
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels kidnapped at least 13 Lebanese Shi’ite men on Tuesday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo as they were returning home from a pilgrimage in Iran, families of the men said.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...US ambassador in Kabul to leave because of health
May 22nd
WASHINGTON: U.S.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Indian rupee slumps to record low of 55.47/dlr; RBI still absent
May 22nd
MUMBAI: The rupee hit a record low to the dollar for the fifth straight session on Tuesday, weighed down by large dollar demand from oil firms and weak global risk sentiment, especially after Fitch downgraded Japan’s ratings. The falls came even after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on Monday measures to target arbitrage and speculation in futures and options markets, with traders saying this market segment was too small to have a big impact. The RBI has announced a string of measures to curb the rupee’s falls, none of which has so far succeeded.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Notice sent to Sharif brothers according to the court’s order: Malik
May 22nd
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Tuesday that the notice sent to the Sharif brothers in the Supreme Court Attack Case is according to the court’s order.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Punjab decides to regulate private education institutes
May 22nd
Staff Report LAHORE: The Government of Punjab announced Tuesday it would regulate the private education institutions operating in the province. It said the private schools would not be allowed to impose discretionary fees.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Afghans back Chicago deal, warn West to keep promises
May 22nd
KABUL: People in Afghanistan were surprisingly optimistic on Tuesday about NATO’s plan to pull combat troops out of their war-ravaged nation by the end of 2014, but warned Western leaders to stick to aid and security promises. A Chicago summit meeting of the 28-member bloc, attended also by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other world leaders, endorsed an exit strategy on Monday that calls for handing control of Afghanistan to its own security forces by the middle of next year.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Suu Kyi to address ILO in Geneva on June 14
May 22nd
GENEVA: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will address an International Labour Organization conference in Geneva next month during her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years, the ILO said on Tuesday. Suu Kyi will give a speech on the final day of the ILO conference on June 14. “Aung San Suu Kyi will be addressing the conference,” said ILO director general Juan Somavia, adding that it will be the first time Suu Kyi “will speak internationally” since she was released from house arrest in 2010
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