Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Herat, Aug 1 (Newswire): The two teenagers met inside an ice cream factory through darting glances before roll call, murmured hellos as supervisors looked away and, finally, a phone number folded up and...
Big majority want SAS troops brought home - poll
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Wellington, Aug 1 (Newswire): Two out of three New Zealanders want the country's SAS soldiers in Afghanistan to come home when they finish their tour of duty in March, a Herald-DigiPoll survey has found.Prime...
Unintended star of ‘Restrepo’ returns to Afghanistan
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Asmar, Aug 1 (Newswire): Sebastian Junger's best-selling book "War" reconstructs in visceral detail a day in 2007 when Taliban insurgents ambushed a U.S. platoon in the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan....
US report finds security deteriorating in Iraq
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Baghdad, Aug 1 (Newswire): Over the past year, security in Iraq has deteriorated and electricity shortages and corruption have continued unabated, according to a report by a special inspector appointed...
The man behind the anti-shariah movement
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Nashville, Aug 1 (Newswire): Tennessee's latest woes include high unemployment, continuing foreclosures and a battle over collective-bargaining rights for teachers. But when a Republican representative...
Oslo massacre sparks multicultural debate in Europe
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Berlin, Aug 1 (Newswire): Europeans are debating immigration and multiculturalism with new urgency after the massacre of 77 people in Oslo, victims of a mass murderer who says he wanted to ignite a crusade...
US growth tepid in spring quarter
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Washington, Aug 1 (Newswire): The US economy inched ahead at a 1.3 percent annual growth rate last spring, held back by soaring gasoline prices and disruptions in manufacturing caused by the March earthquake/tsunami...
Some bankers never learn
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
New York, Aug 1 (Newswire): You'd think the mortgage bust would qualify as a teachable moment.But some people refuse to learn from mistakes — a list that apparently includes certain mortgage bankers....
Can Microsoft make you ‘bing’?
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
New York, Aug 1 (Newswire): Mike Nichols has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until...
Coming soon: ‘Invasion of the walking debt’
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Washington, Aug 1 (Newswire): America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.During, say, zombie movies, the...
Sure cure for the debt problem: Economic growth
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
New York, Aug 1 (Newswire): It seems remarkable now, with all the End Times talk of debt ceilings and default, but it was only 11 years ago that the owners of that electronic totem, the Durst family,...
A mobilization in Washington by Wall Street
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Washington, Aug 1 (Newswire): Wall Street is no longer watching from the sidelines as the most polarizing political fight in years plays out on Capitol Hill. In the last few days, top executives have...
Like Pantha Chowk, puppet govt unmoved by Parimpora traffic mess
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Srinagar, Aug 1 (Newswire): Not only the City but even all roads leading to the held Srinagar seem to be in a mess. If Pantha Chowk square, Valley's sole link to south Kashmir and Jammu faces chronic...
Charri Mubarak taken to Srinagar temple
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Srinagar, Aug 1 (Newswire): Charri Mubarak, the saffron-robed silver mace of Lord Shiva, was taken to the ancient Sharika Bhawani temple located in downtown occupied Srinagar as part of rituals connected...
3 women commit suicide in IHK
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Srinagar, Aug 1 (Newswire): Three women, including a teenage girl, ended their lives by at different places in the held Valley, police said. A 22-year old girl of Panzalpora, Baramulla in north Kashmir...
Tuberculosis advance: existing drugs can potentially target the disease's ability to spread
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Islamabad, Aug 1 (Newswire): Often causing no symptoms in carriers of the disease, worldwide tuberculosis (TB) infects eight to ten million people every year, kills two million, and it is highly contagious...
Mechanism uncovered behind salmonella virulence and drug susceptibility
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Islamabad, Aug 1 (Newswire): Researchers have discovered a novel mechanism in Salmonella that affects its virulence and its susceptibility to antibiotics by changing its production of proteins in a previously...
New cellular 'armor' developed to prevent infection by aids virus
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Islamabad, Aug 1 (Newswire): Research by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and led by Mr Félix Goñi, director of the Biophysics Unit at the CSIC-University of the Basque Country...
Three Ft. Bragg Paratroopers die in Afghanistan
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Kabul, July 31 (Newswire): Military officials say three members of the 82nd Airborne Division have died in Afghanistan.The Department of Defense announced that 27-year-old Sgt. Eric E. Williams of Murrieta,...
Kabul demands list from diplomats in anti-graft fight
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Kabul, July 31 (Newswire): Afghanistan has asked major Western backers and diplomats to furnish a list of contractors they use with close ties to top Afghan officials as part of efforts to crack down...
Thirteen Afghan police "defect" to Taliban
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Heart, July 31 (Newswire): An Afghan police commander and 12 junior officers have defected to the Taliban after poisoning seven comrades, government officials in the western province of Farah said.The...
Jessica Redfield Journalism scholarship fund reaches $20,000 goal in less than 24 hours
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
New York, July 31 (Newswire): A journalism scholarship fund set up by the family of Jessica Ghawi, one of the 12 people killed in the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting during a screening of "Dark Knight...
Opposites attract: Republican Don Young endorses Democrat Mazie Hironi in Hawaii
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Washington, July 31 (Newswire): Rep. Don Young is anything but conventional. Still, the Alaska Republican appeared to take that reputation to a new level by crossing oceans and party lines to make a very...
33 sickened by salmonella linked to ground beef: CDC
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
London, July 31 (Newswire): A salmonella outbreak that has sickened 33 people in seven states appears to be linked to recalled ground beef produced by Cargill Meat Solutions, according to the U.S. Centers...
'Medical center' star Chad Everett dies at 75
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Los Angeles, July 31 (Newswire): Chad Everett, the blue-eyed star of the 1970s TV series "Medical Center" who went on to appear in such films and TV shows as "Mulholland Drive" and "Melrose Place," has...
Anaheim hit by more protests over police shooting
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Anaheim, July 31 (Newswire): Protesters broke windows of least a half-dozen storefronts in Anaheim and five people were arrested in the second major clash between police and demonstrators since an officer...
Russia's Kamaz to cut up to 3,000 white-collar jobs
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
Moscow, July 31 (Newswire): Russian truckmaker Kamaz plans to cut between 1,500 and 3,000 so-called white-collar workers to increase its business efficiency, Kamaz's spokesman Oleg Afanasyev said."Our...
Analysis: Big banks' glory days feared to be gone for good
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
New York, July 31 (Newswire): The summer of 2012 may be remembered as the time when regulation, scandals and a protracted slow-growth economy finally caught up with big American banks.Ever since the financial...
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