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“Load shedding will be over by August 14, 2009.” Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, on May 26, 2008, and again on January 2, 2009.

Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Egypt for talks on ways to break impasse in peace negotiations with Palestinians.

Israel wants US to outlaw Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief.

Violence by Maoist rebels in India peaked in 2010, leaving a record 1,169 people dead, government figures show.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the European Union and France condemn the assassination of Salmaan Taseer.

His brother says Alireza was "deeply disturbed by all the ills fallen upon his beloved homeland">

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker stabbed to death by woman who had accused him of raping her.

Israeli prime minister says the US asked to extend a 10-month building freeze ans Israel was prepared to do it.

Ambassadors accredited to IAEA to visit nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic.

Waheed Omer says the move was his personal decision.

Government faces accelerating inflation as it carefully tries to balance political and economical objectives.

Govt receiving complaints calling for a ban on wearing revealing clothing in public.

New airborne surveillance system will be able o transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town.

SM Krishna says India "walked the extra mile in reaching out"; expects Pakistan to dismantle terror network.

Proposed plan includes deployment of American officials at Pakistan’s airports.

India, Colombia, Germany, Portugal and South Africa begin two-year tenure as non-permanent members of UNSC.

Two people wounded in Nuseirat refugee camp, no casualties reported in Jabaliya refugee camp.

Obama condemns separate “outrageous terrorist bombing attacks”.

Officials were swift to play down sectarian differences, emphasising national harmony.

Five years after a crisis over cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), experts say attack plots are "business as...

Over 560 coalition soldiers were killed in insurgent attacks last year.

Provisions may be interpreted as against national interests.

Recently released secret files reveal Britain feared "Israel's dangerous mood of isolation and defiance will grow."

Israeli archeologists discover human remains dating from 400,000 ago.

Release of secret papers after 30 years come as Western allies prepare another year of conflict in Afghanistan.

They had travelled on genuine documents for Hajj and Umra.

Five men arrested for plotting to kill staff of Danish newspaper.

The ad features scantily-clad former "Baywatch" star as an airport security guard stripping passengers of leather.

If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the Internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks.

India increases security after receiving information that Lashkar-e-Taiba planning attack over New Year weekend.

Move comes after legislators and citizens baton-charged.

Brothers accused of collecting money, recruiting people for al Qaeda.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton the "most admired" man and woman in the US in 2010, says an annual Gallup poll.

State media announces Ali Akbar Siadat was hanged after being condemned to death for "working for Mossad."

Community leader asks why Shiites are not being given same protection measures as other minorities.

Nine men charged with planning attacks in a pre-Christmas plot reportedly targeting the LSE and US embassy.

Bombay Stock Exchange attempts to open stock-trading to more Muslims.

Men worked for a firm which built border posts.

None of Liu Xiaobo’s friends, whom he had wanted to invite to Oslo, were able to witness these poignant moments.

An Iraqi man hanged his teenage daughter after discovering she had reportedly joined Qaeda to launch a suicide bombing

Pope Benedict XVI led pleas by religious leaders for an end to persecution in Iraq and peace in the Middle East.

27 crewmembers on board Thai-flagged vessel.

Indian space rocket carrying a communications satellite explodes seconds after lifting off.

Raid comes after Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security said it detained 3 people having links to Taliban.

Some 10,000 deals have been allowed under a loophole that permits humanitarian aid despite the sanctions.

Iraqi police say a father admitted killing his daughter after learning she had been recruited as a suicide bomber.

Daily Mail reports a group in the UK has launched a nationwide poster campaign denouncing Christmas as evil.

Latest cables show Israel destroyed a Syrian nuclear reactor in an air raid just weeks before it went online in 2007.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fears for life if he is extradited from Britain.

Indian police launch a manhunt for four LeT men they say have entered Mumbai to carry out an attack.