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Pakistan briefly bans Twitter access for "blasphemy"
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Pakistan banned access to Twitter on Sunday because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said, but normal service was resumed after 12 hours. The government did not specify which users or messages
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Baby boy born to Indian actress Shilpa Shetty
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NEW DELHI Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has given birth to a baby boy.Shetty's husband Raj Kundra tweeted the news Monday."God has blessed us with a beautiful baby boy. Both mother and baby are fine.
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Free bicycles help keep Indian girls in school
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RAMPUR SINGHARA, India The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government
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NATO touts Afghan war's end as fighting goes on
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CHICAGO As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the deeply unpopular Afghanistan war, they face the grim reality of two more years of fighting ahead and more of their
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BSE Sensex edges higher; consumer stocks fall
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - The BSE Sensex edged higher, paring earlier stronger gains, as consumer good stocks fell to profit-taking and as the rupee approached its latest record low against the dollar, though
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Prominent rival of Sri Lanka president walks free
- 101 Minutes ago
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Sri Lanka's former army chief walked free from jail on Monday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his highest-profile
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Sri Lanka general freed from jail
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The former Sri Lankan army chief, Gen Sarath Fonseka, has been freed after two years in prison. Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed the release order over the weekend, but legal formalities
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Morgan Stanley cuts India's growth forecasts
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Morgan Stanley cuts India's 2012 economic growth forecast to 6.3 per cent from prior 6.9 per cent; 2013 forecast to 6.8 per cent from 7.5 per cent. On a financial year basis, Morgan Stanley expects FY13
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Separatists strike to honor Indian Kashmir slain
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SRINAGAR, IndiaAn annual strike called by separatists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has shuttered shops and businesses to mark a Muslim cleric's assassination 22 years ago.The cleric, Mirwaiz Mohammed
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Indian shares gain; weak rupee casts shadow
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* SBI again leads banks higher after strong results * Rupee falls, hits record low after markets' close * Consumer good stocks fall; adding to market worries By Abhishek Vishnoi MUMBAI, May 21 (Reuters)
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The Story Of Girl Who Had Nose Hacked Off By Taliban
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CNNâ??s Jessica Ravitz first encountered the subject of this story, Aesha Mohammadzai, in January 2011 in the Queens, New York, offices of Women for Afghan Women. Aesha had arrived in America in August
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Karzai: Thanks for 'Taxpayers' Money'
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CHICAGO ? Afghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-old war in Afghanistan, as the NATO alliance readies to hand over primary responsibility
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Pakistan ends Twitter blockade
- 3 Hours ago
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Sign up to ZDNet UK's daily newsletter. Topics Twitter, Twitter, Interception, Government, Pakistan, Facebook, Muslim NEWS Pakistan has restored access to Twitter after briefly blocking it on Sunday due
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NATO allies focus on ending unpopular Afghan war
- 3 Hours ago
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) talks to US President Barack Obama during the NATO Summit in Chicago. Obama said the world was behind his strategy to end the war in Afghanistan but warned there would
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Indo-Pak trade declines 30% to $1.56 bln in FY'12
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NEW DELHI: Bilateral trade between India and Pakistan has declined by about 30 per cent to $1.56 billion during April-January, 2011-12. During the same period of 2010-11 fiscal, the bilateral trade was
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Afghan war demonstration in Chicago
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Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Chicago on Sunday, demanding that US troops be pulled out of Afghanistan. More than 10,000 people took to the streets near the venue of the NATO summit
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The Plight of Afghan Women: A Disturbing Picture
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Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for
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NATO to hand combat role to Afghans
- 9 Hours ago
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By Matt Spetalnick and Phil Stewart CHICAGO (Reuters) - NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they
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