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Summit supports Palestinians’ right to resist Israel BRASILIA, May 11: The first South American-Arab League summit issued a final declaration on Wednesday recognizing “the right of peoples to resist foreign occupation,” in a veiled reference to the Palestinian...		North Korea preparing for nuclear test: US ambassador’s statement SEOUL, May 11: A US envoy confirmed on Wednesday that North Korea had begun preparations for a nuclear test as Pyongyang claimed it had taken a key step towards the manufacture...
Hurriyat ‘feelers’ for Manmohan NEW DELHI: indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that he had been receiving “certain type of feelers” from the All-Parties Hurriyat Conference and was more than willing to talk to them...		12m working like slaves: ILO UNITED NATIONS, May 11: International Labour Organization said on Wednesday that more than 12 million people are working in coercive, slavery-like conditions, but many countries at present do not provide in...
Iran dismisses US threat TEHRAN, May 11: Iran appeared determined on Wednesday to back away from a deal with the European Union and end its suspension of some sensitive nuclear activities, dismissing the US threat...		India, Japan work out UN strategy BERLIN, May 11: Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have reached agreement on a collective strategy to achieve their aim of gaining a permanent seat on an expanded UN Security Council, it...
Dark beginnings for Cannes film festival CANNES, May 11: Murder and suicide opened the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, setting the tone for what promises to be a dark selection of movies competing for the coveted Palme...		Pharaoh’s features rebuilt CAIRO, May 11: Egypt’s antiquities chief hailed on Wednesday a new era for Egyptology after experts used revolutionary techniques to reconstruct the face of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun....
Indian tycoon ‘detained by wife’ NEW DELHI, May 11: Billionaire tycoon Subroto Roy is being illegally detained by his wife and two company executives, an Indian court was informed on Tuesday. Bharat Nath Shukla, who calls...		Lok Sabha okays bill on information NEW DELHI, May 11: India’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a right-to-information bill aimed at forcing government agencies to disclose records to the public in an effort to help...
Hands chopped off for reviling child marriage BHOPAL, May 11: A woman social worker’s hands were chopped off by a man for counselling villagers in central India not to practise child marriage. The woman was attacked on Tuesday...		US hypocritical on Palestinian DPs: body GENEVA, May 11: The head of an international human rights group on Wednesday accused the United States of “hypocrisy” for refusing to support the right of Palestinian refugees to return to...
Politics frustrate Sri Lankans: Tsunami victims MANALKADU (Sri Lanka): Varaprakasam Anesteen, a Sri Lankan fisherman, survived the Indian Ocean tsunami but lost his one-year-old son in the waves that engulfed a beach on the northern tip of...		Delhi reviews arms supply to Kathmandu NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday formalized the U-turn in its policy toward Nepal, when it announced a partial resumption of military supplies to the Himalayan kingdom. Realizing that stopping military assistance...
India not to insist on veto power MOSCOW: Even as Russia has affirmed its support to India in an expanded United Nations Security Council at a ‘very high level’, India is not holding on to a veto and...		Nagaland group warns ‘worst may come’ GUWAHATI: The leader of a powerful insurgent group in remote northeast India warned there could be fresh violence after lengthy peace talks with New Delhi failed to resolve the decades-old conflict,...
Sri Lanka’s beaches picture devastation ARUGAMBAY (Sri Lanka): Five months after the tsunami hit the country, Sri Lanka is ready not to be caught unawares anymore, with tsunami warning measures safely imposed. Yet for hoteliers, the...		Maoists back political parties KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoist rebels threw their support on Wednesday behind a decision by seven mainstream opposition parties to form a united front to push for a return to democracy following King...
Study disputes BD govt’s claim on employment DHAKA: The recently released Labour Force Survey report of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics shoes that over two million people constituting 4.3 per cent of the labour force of the country...		IAF plane crashes NEW DELHI, May 11: A Jaguar fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force on Wednesday crashed in district Basti of Uttar Pradesh soon after takeoff, killing the pilot and injuring three...