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.
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Loading ...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
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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, about 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 and 130 million years old.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Flame for London Games arrives in Britain
May 19th
CULDROSE, ఇంగ్లండు అనే దేశము: 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.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...PM’s security incharge arrested after brawl with police
May 19th
Staff Report LAHORE: One of the security personnel of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani had an altercation with Punjab police officers during university convocation at Lahore and was later arrested, SAMAA reports. SP Sadar police told reporters that the man, who was security incharge of PM Gilani, abused him when the police officer barred him from accompanying the premier along with a weapon. “It’s our duty to proved security to Mr
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jackie Chan goes out fighting
May 19th
CANNES: Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career. The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film “Chinese Zodiac” will be his last action movie. Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan, said that people don’t believe him when he says he is going to retire
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...IPL fixing: Bookie bribes Rs 100 mln to Sri Lankan cricketer
May 19th
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Karachi: Four ‘target killers’ arrested in police operation
May 19th
Staff Report KARACHI: Amid the ongoing spree of firing incidents in Karachi, police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four suspected target killers in a ‘targeted’ operation, SAMAA reports. Two more people fall prey to the ongoing violence spree in Karachi on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 20 over the past two days. With heavy contingents, police carried out a crackdown in Jamshed Quarters’ Jahangir Raod and Baloch Para areas, arresting four suspected killers in the swoop.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Blind Chinese activist leaves for US
May 19th
A blind Chinese activist was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States, closing a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were on United Airlines Flight 88, which took off late Saturday afternoon from the Beijing airport. The flight is scheduled to arrive in Newark, N.J., Saturday evening
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