Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
May 19th
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the U.S.
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De càrrega ...No bail for Italian sailors in India despite envoy protests
May 19th
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An Indian court denied bail on Saturday to two Italian sailors charged with the murder at sea of two Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates, hours after Rome recalled its ambassador from New Delhi in an increasingly surly diplomatic row.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Ajamal says he is working on bowling variety
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan off spinner Saeed Ajmal said on Saturday that he is working on new variety in his bowling to create more troubles for batsmen.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Unmanned plane crashes near Mianwali
May 19th
Staff Report MIANWALI: An unmanned surveillance aircraft crashed near Mianwali in Punjab on Saturday, SAMAA reports. The pilot-less plane was on a test flight when it crashed near a PIA base
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Blind Chinese activist appears to have left for U.S.
May 19th
BEIJING: Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng’s baggage has been checked into a
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Nine killed by Syria car bomb, 100 wounded
May 19th
BEIRUT: A car bomb that rocked the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday killed nine people and wounded about 100, the official SANA news agency said.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Lift sanctions, Iran tells West before nuke talks
May 19th
TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday said sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme should be lifted in talks with world powers next week in Baghdad, but maintained the punitive measures would not compel it to abandon its atomic “rights.” Foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the government daily Iran that the lifting of sanctions would display “the first signs” that the West is changing its “wrong” approach towards Iran and its nuclear work. Mehmanparast reiterated Tehran’s assertion that the sanctions have no legal basis, but admitted “no one in Iran is happy about the sanctions” and that they “may cause problems.” But he insisted that “sanctions do not really have a significant effect.” Iran on May 23 is to meet representatives of the so-called P5+1 group, comprising the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany, in Iraq’s capital for the second round of talks which were revived in April in Istanbul after a 15-month impasse. Iranian leaders have been increasingly demanding that the sanctions targeting its trade and banking sectors as well its oil exports be lifted, while insisting that they were ineffective
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Gujranwala trader robbed in broad daylight
May 19th
Staff Report GUJRANWALA: In a crime committed in broad daylight, unidentified robbers looted a trader of cash and jewelry worth millions of rupees in Gujranwala on Saturday. According to Gujranwala police chief Malik Kamran Yousuf, three armed men barged into the house of trader Wasim Butt in Satellite Town, held his family hostage on gunpoint and took away 70 tolah of gold and cash of Rs1.5 million
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...JUI-F’s Fazl vows to defy NATO supply reopening
May 19th
Staff Report MANSEHRA: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Fazl (JUI-F), on Saturday reiterated that his party would not allow the reopening of NATO supply lines.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...FIA writes 2nd letter to Interpol for Musharraf’s red warrant
May 19th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has written the second letter to Interpol for implementation of red warrant against former president Pervez Musharraf, SAMAA reported on Saturday.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...New raptor dinosaur discovered
May 19th
SALT LAKE CITY: Scientists have discovered fossilized bones near Utah’s iconic Arches National Park representing a new species of raptor dinosaur that was about the size of a coyote, the state’s top paleontologist announced on Friday. The raptor was among several discovered at or near Doelling’s Bowl Bone Bed, sobre 230 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, which has yielded several new species in the last two decades and is thought to be the base of Utah’s Cretaceous record. Fossils found at the bone bed are estimated at between 120 i 130 million years old.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Gilani says opposition using ‘unconstitutional’ methods
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf has accused the Opposition of using ‘unconstitutional’ methods to overthrow his government, SAMAA reports. “I’m an elected prime minister of people of this country and have not come into power through backdoor,” Gilani said while addressing convocation of the Virtual University at Lahore. “The opposition is bent upon removing me unconstitutionally, but they must adopt a democratic way.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Sri Lanka marks anniversary of Tigers’ defeat
May 19th
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the island’s former war zone as he marked the third anniversary of the Tamil rebels’ defeat. In a bullish address to the nation, Rajapakse said he could not dismantle military camps in the north because it would undermine national security in a country slowly emerging from nearly four decades of ethnic bloodshed. “The diaspora has not stopped their activities,” Rajapakse declared, referring to Tamil separatists abroad
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Lawyer of teacher Nafees tortured by Madhyana in Sargodha
May 19th
Staff Report SARGODHA: Shahid Nazeer, lawyer of teacher Nafees Khan was badly tortured here on Saturday.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Brawl with police: PM’s security officer released after apology
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: Police released one of the security staff members of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani after the officer tendered unconditional apology to the law enforcers over his ‘misbehavior’, SAMAA reports. Police said the officer had an altercation with Punjab police officers during university convocation at Lahore.
(Sense avaluar) De càrrega ...Flame for London Games arrives in Britain
May 19th
CULDROSE, Anglaterra: The flame for the London Olympics burned brightly on British soil on Friday after David Beckham stepped off a special flight from the Games birthplace of Greece to light a cauldron with a golden torch. The British Airways ‘Firefly’ Flight 2012 from Athens landed on time at the Culdrose naval air station with Britain’s Princess Anne, Games chairman Seb Coe and the former England soccer captain among the delegation. The flame will start a 70-day torch relay around Britain on Saturday, with triple Olympic gold medallist sailor Ben Ainslie carrying it on the first leg from Land’s End on the south-west tip of England.
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