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The monarch in Nepal tastes odd flavor of democracy. The powerful lower house of Nepal, House of Representatives, has taken strenuous action to reduce the power of the royal family.
In the continuation of the act now, it now trimmed down the...
Al Qaeda made the feeling of his presence in the Lebanon crisis. Ayman al-Zawahri, said to be no. 2 leader in Al-Qaeda, appeared on the Al-Jazeera TV channel and announced that Al Qaeda is seeing the entire world as a battlefield open.
He posed...
With the death of another person, the 42nd due to the human bird flu virus, Indonesia has recorded more deaths this year than any other nation due to this disease. This has brought it on a par with Vietnam as the worst affected by the disease, though the...
Mass level departure and possibly one of the largest in recent times of Americans, Europeans and Asian people from Lebanon has begun. The fight between Israel and Hezbollah militants based in Lebanon is causing the civilian carnage in Lebanon and...
Coalition and Afghan forces have ousted the Taleban from Garmser and Naway-i-Barakazayi in the southern Helmand province. The Taleban had seized the towns earlier this week. According to reports, many people have fled the towns.
The coalition forces...
Threat of nuke-war, US intervention, agenda of international agencies, quest for food, freedom, justice, equality, peace and security have become the characteristics of South Asia.
You may find poverty, deprivation, conflict and war at most of the...
The American troops conducted another massive military drive in southern Afghanistan and killed a large numbers of Taleban commanders. The major military operation has happened in the Helmand province.
On the other hand, there was a report that the...
The Chinese-Russian draft UN resolution on North Korea's missile tests last week has met with lukewarm response from Japan and the US. Though this draft is much softer than Japan's the UN Security Council is still waiting for the result of the...
China has flayed the Japan-sponsored resolution on North Korea calling for sanctions for its missile tests as an over-reaction, which would not only split the Security Council but would also aggravate contradictions and increase tension. Even South Korea...
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Afghanistan on an unscheduled visit following an increase in Taliban violence in the southern parts of the country. The trip comes amid reports that the NATO is readying to take over all military operations...
An Airbus A-310, carrying about 200 people including eight crew members, crashed on landing in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Sunday. Most on board were feared killed.
The plane, operated by Russia's second largest airline, Sibir, was on a flight...
Bank of Japan likely to reverse its five year old policy and raise interest would have a rippling effect across Asian financial markets. Loan credit rates across much of Asia are likely to be impacted and this will subdue growth targets of growing...
The train to Tibet firmly imprints the Chinese authority over a region that has the potential to cause trouble for the Beijing rulers. Marketed as a project to boost tourism and cut transportation costs, the train to the roof of the world actually has...
The Taliban once again showed it had the power to mastermind senseless killings of innocent people as Kabul was rocked by three explosions. The first explosion hit a bus carrying Afghan army officers while the other targeted a bus carrying commerce...
The Old Silk Route may be dead forever and the Indian and Chinese effort to bury old disputes and revive trade along old links that brought trade onto the famous land route with Europe and West Asia will prove hard for it is burdened by the baggage of...
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