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TOKYO: Asian shares fell to their lowest levels of the year on Friday as early bargain hunting gave way to worries about Europe’s raging debt crisis and weak global growth. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.7 சதவீதம், after edging up as much as 0.3 percent earlier, hitting its lowest since late December as worries about a possible Greek exit from the euro zone continued to weigh on the market. The pan-Asia stock index was set for a third consecutive week of losses, its longest losing streak in six months.
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YANGON: Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years next week to deliver a speech at an international forum in Thailand, her party said on Thursday. Her decision to venture outside the country she had only expected to return to temporarily in 1988 comes after a year of dramatic change in Myanmar after almost a half century of military rule. Suu Kyi, 66, won a parliamentary seat in April after engaging with the reformist rulers once part of the junta that locked her up for 15 years for her fight against dictatorship
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PARIS: French President Francois Hollande arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for a surprise trip to visit France’s troops there and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Hollande’s office said.
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வாஷிங்டன்: A man has confessed to strangling to death a boy who vanished on his way to school in 1979 — a haunting case that terrified parents across America and baffled police for three decades, New York police chief Ray Kelly said. The disappearance of Etan Patz was so shocking that he instantly became a symbol for growing fears over the safety of children playing outside the home
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi next week during the first visit by an Indian premier to Myanmar in a quarter of a century, her party said Friday. India has faced international criticism in the past for its engagement with Myanmar s former junta, and Singh s meeting with the veteran activist is seen as a sign that Delhi wants to reaffirm ties with the democracy activist. Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi s National League for Democracy (NLD), said the talks would take place on Tuesday, pushing back plans for the Nobel laureate to visit Bangkok in her first foreign trip in 24 years.
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Teams from all over the country, including Multan and Islamabad, are participating in the tournament.
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Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has urged President Barack Obama to show “some courage” and apologize to Pakistan for the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at Salala and bring US-Pakistan relations back on track.
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The National Economic Council (NEC) which met here under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved Rs 873 billion for Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP 2012-13), with focus on water and power, social sector, health education, job creation and food security, for the socio-economic prosperity of the country. Talking to media after the NEC meeting here on Thursday, Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh said that government has planned a balanced development approach to equally develop Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Federally Administered Tribal Areas with other parts of the country. The Minister said that the NEC also reviewed the progress of Federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of Rs 300 billion during the outgoing financial year 2011-12 and it was observed that 170 big development projects have been completed with 100 percent releases for the projects
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The United States on Thursday voiced concern over extrajudicial killings and religious intolerance in Pakistan, including in its troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan. In an annual report on human rights, the State Department said that the "most serious human rights problems" in Pakistan included extrajudicial killings, torture and disappearances by both security forces and militants. "Lack of government accountability remained a pervasive problem
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ஸ்டாப் ரிப்போர்ட் லாகூர்: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamat-e-Islami have agreed today to launch ‘remove PM, hold polls’ campaign across the country, SAMAA வியாழக்கிழமை தெரிவித்தது. Owing to the agreement over removal of the current regime, the PML-N and Jamat-e-Islami have stopped their activists of giving statements against each other while both parties’ leaders are exchanging views over the demands and agenda of the campaign. Three leaders from each party are included in the consultation group.
