Google says it has China’s approval for Motorola deal
May 20th
CALIFORNIA: Google has said that the Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world’s No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones. Google, which will be the newest entrant to the handset market, announced plans for the acquisition last year in a bid to secure Motorola’s valuable patents and pave the way for a pairing of Google’s Android mobile software and Motorola’s handset business
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بار ...Gilani invites politicians at dinner for Turk PM
May 20th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Prime Minster Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday invited heads of key political parties to join a dinner being hosted by Pakistan in the honour of visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, SAMAA reports.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...NATO chief urges Pakistan to help stabilize Afghanistan
May 20th
CHICAGO: NATO’s chief urged Islamabad to back efforts to stabilize Afghanistan as he prepared for talks Saturday with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, on the eve of a NATO summit.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Syria bomb kills 9, Damascus blames foreign plot
May 20th
BEIRUT: A car bomb killed nine people at a Syrian military post in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, an attack the government said was the latest proof that an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad was a foreign plot. The official SANA news agency said the blast had been the work of a suicide bomber, and had also wounded about 100 مردم, including guards, at what it called military installations
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Twitter website blocked in parts of Pakistan
May 20th
Staff Report KARACHI: The popular social networking website, توییتر, has been blocked in parts of Pakistan over “sacrilegious contents”, SAMAA reports. The Ministry of Information Technology says the website was banned in different parts due to blasphemous and inflammatory contents.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Fierce clashes rock Syrian capital
May 20th
The Local Coordination Committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes took place in Kfar Souseh early Sunday morning but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The district is a high security area, housing several security and intelligence agencies
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Israel celebrates Jerusalem ‘reunification’
May 20th
Israeli ministers held a special cabinet meeting at Ammunition Hill on Sunday to celebrate Jerusalem Day when the Jewish state captured the Arab eastern sector 45 years ago during the Six-Day War. Celebrations were lined up throughout the day with formal ceremonies, parties and the annual flag march through east Jerusalem to mark the "reunification" of the city which took place after the 1967 Middle East war. For Israel, which annexed the eastern sector in a move not recognised by the international community, Jerusalem is its "eternal and undivided capital." But for the Palestinians, east Jerusalem is where they want the capital of their promised state.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Torkham border slammed shut ahead of NATO summit
May 20th
An AFP reporter who on Sunday travelled from the northwestern Peshawar city to Torkham, on the dangerous Khyber Pass, confirmed no NATO vehicles were going through, nor were there even any waiting at the pass. A furious Pakistan slammed shut the Torkham border gate in its northwest to NATO vehicles in November when air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, souring already fragile relations between allies Washington and Islamabad.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...No urgency to reach deal over NATO supply: General Allen
May 20th
The US commander in Afghanistan said he would not be disappointed if a long-sought agreement with Pakistan on supply routes failed to materialise by the end of the NATO summit in Chicago on Monday. General John Allen, who is also the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander, said in an interview he was confident a deal would eventually be struck but "whether it s in days or weeks, I don t know." Many Obama administration officials had hoped for an agreement with Islamabad in time for the Sunday-Monday summit that would end a nearly six-month ban prohibiting trucks in Pakistan from carrying supplies to NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Cricketer Haeez fined for using mobile during driving
May 20th
As per details, Pakistan T20 team captain Muhammad Hafeez was going to Gaddafi Stadium when a traffic warden issued a challan ticket to him over making a telephone call during driving.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Sindh CM orders removal of ‘Mohajir Province’ graffiti, banners
May 20th
Staff Report KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, has ordered removal of graffiti by Mohajir Suba Tehreek (MST) on city’s walls in favour of a new province in Sindh, SAMAA reports. Removing the wall-chalking, as well as billboards and banners placed by the group, police came into action late Saturday night, purging walls of the graffiti around Sindh Assembly and at different areas. On Saturday, Speaker Sindh Assembly, Nisar Khohro, termed the demand of a new province as a ‘conspiracy’ like that of ‘Sindhu Desh’
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Targeted attacks: Four more killed in Karachi
May 20th
Staff Report KARACHI: Four more people were killed in different incidents of firing as renewed wave of drive-by shootings continued in the city on Sunday, SAMAA reports. Police said a target killer, associated with a political party was arrested during a raid. Officials said a car was attacked in Faroz Abad police limits in which a local builder, Suleman, was injured and later died in hospital.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Late flight: Zardari-Rasmussen meeting delayed in Chicago
May 20th
CHICAGO: A scheduled meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and Secretary General was delayed due to delayed arrival of the flight carrying Pakistan leader, SAMAA reports. Presidential spokesman, Farhatullah Babar said Pakistani and NATO officials were working to reschedule the meeting.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Renowned music composer A. Hameed is being remembered
May 20th
Staff Report KARACHI: Well known composer of Pakistan, Shaikh Abdul Hameed (1924 – 1991), who is widely known as A Hameed, is being remembered on his death anniversary, SAMAA reports.
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...Hopes fading for swift U.S., Pakistan deal on Afghan supply routes
May 20th
CHICAGO; The Obama administration may be not be able to strike a long-awaited agreement with Pakistan to help supply Western soldiers in Afghanistan as hoped in time for a major NATO summit in Chicago this weekend, a U.S. official said
(بدون امتیاز) بار ...In or out of the eurozone: Greeces options
May 20th
OPTION-I: EXIT Long taboo, what economists call "Grexit" is back on the table after inconclusive Greek elections this month that gave anti-austerity and anti-EU parties the majority but failed to produce a working coalition. Should Greek voters return a working coalition of anti-austerity parties at a re-run of the elections on June 17, and should those parties refuse to adopt reforms demanded in March in exchange for a second EU-IMF bailout, it will be game over and exit from the euro for Athens. Greece then would find itself with a devalued drachma currency once more, facing a sharp spike in inflation, even higher unemployment and the danger of a vicious circle of depression, even if exports became more competitively priced
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