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U.S. shifting focus to Afghanistan
Obama sanctioned the two missile attacks inside Pakistan

Obama on emissions
WASHINGTON: Plunging into energy policy, President Barack Obama is poised to give U.S. states a freer hand in curbing emissions from cars, and to get his government moving on fuel-efficiency standards that could remake the auto industry. ...

Bid to relocate detenus
Washington: U.S. President Barack Obama is to step up efforts to persuade European Union and other countries to take inmates released from Guantanamo Bay, despite mounting concerns about former detenus turning up in Al-Qaida’s ranks ...

China bank refutes currency charge
BEIJING: The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, has refuted the allegations by a U.S. Treasury official that China is manipulating the exchange rates of its currency, saying the statement is untrue and ...

LATE NEOLITHIC CULTURE
Earliest man-made cave houses in China


Fire foreigners first, Senator asks Microsoft
Washington: As Microsoft announced plans to axe 5,000 employees, an influential Republican Senator has asked the software giant to fire foreign workers hired on visas — including Indians — first and “protect” the jobs ...

Trade your emissions, says EU
BRUSSELS: The European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading as one of the main mechanisms for curbing greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Cash-for-favours scandal in U.K.
LONDON: In an echo of the cash-for-questions scandal that blighted the Conservative government of John Major in the 1990s, four Labour peers, including two former Ministers, are facing allegations of offering to help amend legislation for fees ...

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India & World
Indian Americans to meet Obama team on 26/11
Washington: A group of prominent Indian Americans will meet the members of the U.S. Adminstration and top Congressmen to demand that they step up pressure on Pakistan to take action against those responsible for the Mumbai carnage. ...

India has no better friend than U.S.: Obama
Washington: United States President Barack Obama has asserted that Indians have “no better friend and partner” than the Americans and their “shared values” enabled the two countries meet any challenge, particularly ...

Republic Day fervour in China, Israel
Beijing: Unfurling of the national tricolour, cultural programmes and festivities marked the 60th Republic Day celebrations in China. At a ceremony at the Indian embassy here, Ambassador Nirupama Rao hoisted the national flag and read ...




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