Source: Express Tribune: PM confirms the visit, no comment on trip’s purpose. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are working quietly to bring some normalcy to their troubled relationship following last month’s Nato airstrikes in Mohmand Agency. As part of some behind the scenes efforts, Director General Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt […]
Source: New York Times: By TARA PARKER-POPE For 15 years, Joseph Proietto has been helping people lose weight. When these obese patients arrive at his weight-loss clinic in Australia, they are determined to slim down. And most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to the clinic’s […]
Source: NY Times: Iran’s threat to shut the Strait of Hormuz— one-fifth of the world’s oil trade passes through there — if the United States and Europe press ahead with new sanctions is unacceptable. The Obama administration is right to signal, in deliberately moderated ways, that Washington will not back […]
Source: Warsaw Time Poles plan to spend around PLN 7.9 billion on the New Year’s Eve celebrations, i.e. nearly PLN 550 per household, a level comparable to last year’s sum, according to a report by KPMG audit, tax and advisory services. Of the amount, PLN 3.3 billion will pertain to […]
By NADIA AL-FAWAZ | ARAB NEWS ABHA: Entering malls and shopping centers have become a real challenge for young Saudi men, who have innovated many ways and means to force […]
By ARAB NEWS MANAMA: The Bahraini authorities announced on Thursday that five police officers would face trial next month over the death by torture of two detainees linked to anti-regime protests earlier this year. Nawaf Abdullah Hamza the Public Prosecution was quoted by the state news agency BNA that after […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency has said a nuclear Iran might not pose an “existential threat” to Israel, in remarks reported Thursday by Haaretz newspaper. “Does Iran pose a threat to Israel? Absolutely,” the daily quoted Mossad chief Tamir Pardo as telling a group of […]
WASHINGTON — US officials suspect that Yemen fed them false intelligence for a 2010 strike against Al Qaeda suspects that killed a local leader locked in a dispute with the president’s family, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The disclosure of such an incident would complicate relations between the two […]
Anuj Bidve, 23, was shot at point-blank range as he walked with friends near a hotel in Salford in the early hours of Boxing Day. Mr Bidve was with a group of nine Indian students from Lancaster University who were visiting Manchester for a Christmas break. The men and women […]
RT: In a report released by the Foreign Ministry detailing human rights abuses around the world, the United States comes up short, cited for violations on both the domestic and foreign fronts. The report says that the United States, on the pretext of fighting terrorism, is actually crushing the liberties […]
RT: The debt-stricken eurozone is set to enter 2012 in a gloomy mood with Italy’s borrowing costs remaining near the 7 per cent danger zone. The Italian PM has pledged more efforts to revive the ailing economy in his end-of-year speech. Still, there are huge doubts that the new men […]
ISLAMABAD: Lal Masjid’s firebrand clerics on Thursday accepted a government offer of 20 kanals of land in Sector H-11/4 for rebuilding Jamia Hafsa, averting a feared clash reminiscent of the bloody standoff between the two sides in July 2007 that saw the seminary for girls razed to ground. This alternate […]
The Air Force apparently slipped that a long talked-about arms deal with Saudi Arabia is a done deal. Stephen Trimble at The Dew Line reports this photo was posted to the Air Force website at 3:31 a.m. on Dec. 28, several hours before the AP wrote the deal was “poised” to be […]