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Aus foreign minister resigns amid reports of power-tussle
MELBOURNE: Amid widespread reports of a leadership tussle with the Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Australian Foreign Kevin Rudd resigned today saying he could not continue to serve without her support…. Read more
UN nuclear team arrives in Iran, seeks ‘concrete results’
TEHRAN: A delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog today arrived in Tehran for a two-day visit aimed at seeking a solution to a dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme, the ISNA… Read more
Italy opens enquiry into India ship shooting
ROME: Italy offered today to send diplomats to India to help resolve a crisis sparked by the alleged killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian naval officers, as prosecutors opened… Read more
India sends special envoy to crisis-hit Maldives
NEW DELHI: As the crisis in Maldives deepened, India today sent its special envoy to Male to assess the situation in the island where former President Mohamed Nasheed has been… Read more
9 Pakistanis, Bangladeshis jailed for London terror plot
LONDON: Nine British-Asians of Pakistani and Bangladeshi-origin have been jailed in the UK over an al Qaeda-inspired plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange and to organize a terrorist training… Read more
Maldives leader calls for national unity government
MALE: The new president of the Maldives today called for the formation of a national unity government in his Indian Ocean nation even as police and soldiers kept watch over… Read more
Maldives president Nasheed quits amid protests
MALE: Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed today announced his resignation following weeks of public protests over his controversial order to arrest a senior judge. Nasheed presented his resignation in a nationally… Read more
New probe into racist killing of NRI waiter
LONDON: Over 13 years after he was killed, the Scotland Police have been instructed to reopen the probe into the racist killing of Indian origin waiter Surjit Singh Chhokar, who… Read more
Indian-origin MP to head German parliamentary committee
BERLIN: Indian-origin MP Sebastian Edathy, will head a parliamentary inquiry committee, which has been set up in Berlin to investigate a string of racist motivated murders carried out across Germany… Read more
London 2012 Olympics committee not to drop Dow sponsorship
LONDON: Despite the resignation by a senior member of the sustainability commission on the Bhopal tragedy issue, organizers of the London 2012 Olympics have said there were no plans to… Read more
