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President Zardari summons meeting to curb power crisis
May 10th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned an emergency meeting tonight to discuss the power crisis faced by the country, SAMAA reported Thursday.
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Loading ...PM contempt case: SC detailed verdict’s copies mailed to 14 institutes including NA Speaker
May 10th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: Copies of the Supreme Court’s detailed verdict over PM contempt case have been mailed to 14 different institutes including the Speaker of National Assembly and the Secretary of Election Commission today, SAMAA reported on Wednesday.
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May 9th
PARIS: Outgoing French leader Nicolas Sarkozy’s cabinet met for its last session on Wednesday as president-elect Francois Hollande held talks with top Socialists to gear up for next month’s parliamentary vote.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Syria rebels kill 7, bomb explodes near UN monitors
May 9th
AMMAN: Syrian rebels killed at least seven pro-government militiamen in a Damascus suburb on Wednesday, activists said, and a large explosion hit a convoy accompanying United Nations ceasefire observers in the southern province of Deraa.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama leads Romney, helped by independents
May 9th
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama extended his lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney to 7 percentage points because of increased support from independent voters and some optimism over the U.S. economy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday. With six months to go before Election Day on November 6, Obama was backed by 49 percent of registered voters in the telephone poll, compared to 42 percent who supported Romney
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PML-N releases anti-government protest plan
May 8th
Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided to step up its anti-government movement following Supreme Court’s detailed judgment in Prime Minister Contempt case today (Tuesday).
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Aung San Suu Kyi given Myanmar passport
May 8th
YANGON: Myanmar has issued opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with a passport, her party said Tuesday, as the former political prisoner prepares to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years. The 66-year-old democracy icon, who spent much of the last two decades locked up in her Yangon home by Myanmar’s former junta, plans to visit Oslo next month to finally accept her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize in person
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Arab League chief warns of civil war in Syria
May 8th
BEIJING: Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby warned on Tuesday rising violence in Syria could tip the strife-torn country into civil war, and expressed support for the peace plan of U.N.-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Nawaz Sharif to visit Sindh Tuesday
May 7th
Staff Report KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif is arriving in Sindh tomorrow (Tuesday). During his visit to Sindh, he will address public gatherings in Garhi Khairo and Rato Dero. The PML-N leader will head to Gahro Khairo from Moenjo Dero Airport.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama invites France’s Hollande to Washington in May
May 7th
PARIS: U.S. President Barack Obama has invited French president-elect Francois Hollande for bilateral talks in Washington this month before members of the NATO defence alliance meet for a summit, a close Hollande aide said on Monday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Cameron congratulates Hollande
May 7th
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday congratulated new French President Francois Hollande by telephone, vowing to work with the Socialist leader to strengthen the Franco-British relationship. “The Prime Minister called President-Elect Hollande this evening and congratulated him on his victory,” said a spokesman from Cameron’s Downing Street office in a statement.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Putin pledges unity on return to Kremlin
May 7th
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin took the oath as Russia’s president on Monday with a ringing appeal for unity at the start of a six-year term in which he faces growing dissent, economic problems and bitter political rivalries. Putin, 59, was sworn in with his right hand resting on the Russian constitution in a glittering ceremony in the Kremlin’s former throne room attended by 2,000 dignitaries who applauded his every step along a long red carpet to the podium. Outside the Kremlin’s high red walls, police rounded up men and women in cafes wearing the white ribbons symbolising their growing protest movement against Putin, having detained more than 400 people during clashes with protesters on Sunday
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Congress’ intelligence heads: Taliban stronger
May 7th
WASHINGTON: The Taliban is stronger now than before President Barack Obama ordered a surge of US troops to Afghanistan, two senior US lawmakers said on Sunday, contradicting the administration’s assessment of the insurgency.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Canada's Harper hopes for close ties with Hollande
May 6th
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed hope for close cooperation with French president-elect Francois Hollande, in a telephone call congratulating him on his election victory Sunday.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Socialists celebrate as French vote nears close
May 6th
PARIS: France looked set to crown Francois Hollande as its first Socialist president in nearly two decades in an election on Sunday, marking a shift to the left at the heart of Europe and heralding a fight back against German-led austerity.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Islamabad: PTI holding rally today to show solidarity with CJP
May 6th
Staff Report ISLAMABAD: During the rising political jitters in the county, the Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is going to take out its ‘tsunami’ in Islamabad today (Sunday) to support Chief Justice for Supreme Court’s decision to convict Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of contempt, SAMAA reports. Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan will be leading the rally along with other party leaders at China Chowk where thousands of PTI supporters are expected to join him. The march will start at about 2 p.m from the China Chowk, culminating at D-Chowk outside the Parliament House
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