Thursday, 11 July 2013
Islamabad, July 12 (Newswire): As the United States makes a fresh attempt to start talks with the Taliban, competing visions in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan over what an eventual peace process...
Freak Afghan hailstorm grounded scores of Nato helicopters
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Kabul, July 12 (Newswire): A freak hailstorm over one of the biggest Nato airbases in Afghanistan grounded more than 80 helicopters, putting several of them out of action for more than three weeks, it...
Ethnically-charged demonstrations continue to flare in Takhar
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Kabul, July 12 (Newswire): For three days demonstrations have surged in northeastern Takhar province in reaction to the dismissal of provincial Police Chief, Khair Mohammad Timoor, more than a month ago....
Extremely rare jaguar spotted near Arizona mountains
Thursday, 11 July 2013
London, July 12 (Newswire): Photos of an extremely rare jaguar roaming Forest Service land near Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains have been published by the Arizona Daily Star, which got the images from...
From Egypt petition drive, a new grassroot wave
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Cairo, July 12 (Newswire): Teenager Gehad Mustafa wears an ultraconservative veil over her face and was raised in a family of staunch Muslim Brotherhood supporters. Yet for the past weeks, she has been...
In Sanford, Fla., Zimmerman trial keeps a shaken community on edge
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): Outwardly, Sanford, Fla., is "just an old Southern middle-class town," where races may be segregated socially and culturally, but where most folks feel part of the same community,...
Why states that ban gay marriage are resting easy after Supreme Court rulings
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Washington, July 12 (Newswire): The two gay marriage rulings from the US Supreme Court this week have prompted big sighs of relief coming from the 35 states with bans on same-sex marriage. Nothing in...
Whitey Bulger on trial, but FBI's bad behavior is recounted, too
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): Officially it is former crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger who's on trial, but this week a lot of incriminating evidence pointed in another direction: at Boston FBI agents...
Vatican official arrested in corruption plot
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Vatican City, July 12 (Newswire): A Vatican official has been arrested by Italian police for allegedly trying to illegally bring 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash into the country from Switzerland...
S&P 500 posts best first half since 1998
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): The S&P 500 ended the session with its strongest first half of any year since 1998 after reaching record highs in May on a rally underpinned by the Federal Reserve's...
How Gazprom's $1 trillion dream has fallen apart
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Moscow, July 12 (Newswire): Zoya Danilina, who owns some 700 shares in Gazprom (GAZP.ME), says investors don't have to look far to understand that Russia's most powerful company has lost its way.Danilina...
Fed's Stein puts focus on September as time to assess QE3
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): September could be an opportune time for the Federal Reserve to consider scaling back its assets purchase, an influential official of the U.S. central bank said, as he stressed...
Fitch affirms US AAA rating but outlook still negative
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): Fitch Ratings affirmed the United States' top level credit rating at AAA but held the outlook at negative, saying still-elevated debt levels leave the country vulnerable...
Consumer sentiment ends June to near six-year high
Thursday, 11 July 2013
New York, July 12 (Newswire): Consumer sentiment improved in late June, ending the month close to a near six-year high set in May, as optimism among higher-income families rose to its strongest level...
China bank regulator says liquidity ample, debt risks manageable
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Shanghai, July 12 (Newswire): China's chief banking regulator said that liquidity in China's banking system is sufficient and pledged to control risks from local government debt, real estate and shadow...
Indian troops martyr one more innocent Kashmiri youth
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Srinagar, July 12 (Newswire): In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops, in their fresh act of state terrorism, martyred one more innocent Kashmiri youth in Kishtwar district.The troops killed the youth in Sarawan...
Illegal detention of Hurriyet leaders, activists condemned
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Srinagar, July 12 (Newswire): In occupied Kashmir, the Chairperson of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Aasiya Andrabi has condemned the illegal detention of all pro-freedom leaders and activists, languishing in different...
Crackdown against youth: 150 detained in Kashmir valley
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Srinagar, July 12 (Newswire): In occupied Kashmir, in a major crackdown on protesters, Indian police have detained nearly 150 youth from across the Kashmir Valley for participating in anti-India protests...
Sweet way to detect pre-diabetes
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Islamabad, July 12 (Newswire): Having discovered a dramatic increase of an easy-to-detect enzyme in the red blood cells of people with diabetes and prediabetes, Johns Hopkins scientists say the discovery...
Severe angina poses three times coronary artery disease risk for women than men
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Islamabad, July 12 (Newswire): Women who have the most serious form of angina are three times as likely to develop severe coronary artery disease (CAD) as men with the same condition, according to the...
Hereditary kidney disease linked to genetic location
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Islamabad, July 12 (Newswire): An in-depth study of a family with multiple generations affected by kidney disease has identified a previously unknown location for a gene abnormality causing focal segmental...
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