UN chief asks nations to abolish death penalty
Posted On 24 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 753 Times
As India executed 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has called on nations who still use the death penalty to abolish the practice.
Ban welcomed a UN General Assembly resolution, passed earlier this week, that called on all member states to establish a moratorium on executions ... Read More
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Taliban to avenge Kasab’s hanging
Posted On 23 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 556 Times
ISLAMABAD, Nov 22 – The Pakistani Taliban today threatened to target Indians “anywhere” in retaliation for the execution of Ajmal Kasab and demanded that India should return the body of the LeT militant involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks to his family, reports PTI
In calls made to journalists in northwest ... Read More
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Suu Kyi named new UN ambassador
Posted On 23 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 581 Times
Aung San Suu Kyi has been named as a UNAIDS ambassador
A “voice of the voiceless” on HIV/AIDS
John Zaw, Mandalay
Myanmar
The United Nations yesterday announced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as an ambassador to its program on HIV/AIDS.
Suu Kyi accepted the invitation to head the program during a meeting ... Read More
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NE-Thailand road connectivity by ’16: PM
PHNOM PENH, Nov 19 – Come 2016 and one can drive all the way from the North-East to Mae Sot in Thailand, with India, Myanmar and Thailand managing to firm up a date for completion of the ambitious trilateral highway project. The projected date of completion was announced by Prime ... Read More
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Obama offers praise and pressure on historic Myanmar trip
YANGON (Reuters) - Barack Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, trying during a whirlwind six-hour trip to strike a balance between praising the government's progress in shaking off military rule and pressing for more reform.
Obama, who was greeted by enthusiastic crowds in the former ... Read More
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Burma or Myanmar? Obama to decide
Posted On 18 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 668 Times
Washington: President Barack Obama’s landmark visit to Myanmar, known by the US as Burma, brings up an unusual problem of protocol: What does he call it?
If recent practice by visiting US officials is any guide, Obama will sidestep the issue by using neither name on Monday when he becomes the ... Read More
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I feel myself partly a citizen of India: Suu Kyi
Posted On 17 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 708 Times
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NEW DELHI: Never felt "far away" from India, said pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who describes herself "partly a citizen" of this country.
Addressing a gathering at her alma mater Lady Sriram College from where she graduated in 1964, Suu Kyi remembered her formative years in the prestigious ... Read More
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi meets with top leaders in India
Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi places a wreath at Rajghat in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Reuters Photo)
NEW DELHI, 14 November 2012 (AP): Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the foreign secretary on Wednesday as part of a trip to ... Read More
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Suu Kyi in India after 40 years
Posted On 14 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 669 Times
New Delhi, 13 Nov 2012: Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday on a six-day visit as part of India's engagement with the multi-party polity in Myanmar.
Suu Kyi, chairperson of the National League of Democracy of Myanmar, flashed a traditional "namaste" as she stepped ... Read More
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Americans hand Obama a second term
By Steve Holland and John Whitesides
U.S. President Barack Obama, who won a second term in office by defeating Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, waves with his daughters Malia (R) and Sasha and wife Michelle (L) before addressing supporters during his election night victory rally in Chicago, November 7, 2012. ... Read More
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US presidential election key issues
As the two candidates race around the swing states looking for every last vote, use our guide to find out where they stand on each of the key issues.
Economy
Obama: Signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, known as the stimulus, a $768bn (£489bn) package of tax cuts and investment in ... Read More
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Roller-coaster campaign concludes with Tuesday’s vote
Posted On 06 Nov 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 555 Times
By Tom Cohen, CNN, November 6, 2012
An election worker helps President Barack Obama as he votes early at the Martin Luther King Community Center in Chicago on October 25.
Washington (CNN) -- A roller-coaster ride of an election campaign, buffeted by a superstorm and missteps on both sides, finally concludes ... Read More
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Exodus of thousands after Myanmar unrest
Posted On 27 Oct 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 564 Times
Thousands of displaced people have surged towards already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar. (AP Photo)
SITTWE, MYANMAR: Thousands of displaced people have surged towards already overcrowded camps in western Myanmar, the UN said on Saturday, after vicious new communal violence that has left dozens dead.
Seething resentment between Buddhists and Muslims ... Read More
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Death toll crosses 100 in Myanmar ethnic violence
Posted On 27 Oct 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 492 Times
SITTWE (MYANMAR): The death toll from recent ethnic violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine has surpassed 100, an official said on Friday, as the government warned that the strife risks harming the country's reputation as it seeks to install democratic rule.
Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said 112 people had ... Read More
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56 dead in ethnic Myanmar violence
Posted On 26 Oct 2012 | By admin. | Under World News. | View 500 Times
Yangon, October 25 (AP): At least 56 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 homes destroyed in the latest outbreak of ethnic violence in western Myanmar, a government official said Thursday.
The 25 men and 31 women were reported dead in four Rakhine state townships in violence between the Buddhist Rakhine ... Read More
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