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A child waves a Congress party flag as other party activists burn crackers to celebrate Saturday's developments in the India-U.S. nuclear deal, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Nations that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India, a deal that reverses more than three decades of American pol

India jubilant over nuclear trade waiver
Philadelphia Daily News

MUNEEZA NAQVI The Associated Press NEW DELHI - India's government and business groups were jubilant Sunday over a hard-won endorsement from nations that supply nuclear material and technology, a decision that paves the way for a landmark civil nuclear energy accord between India and the United States. India has been subject to a nuclear trade ban...

photo: AP / Gurinder Osan

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Jemima Khan: Mad and bad - but the West will turn a blind eye
The Independent

President Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widower, formerly known as Mr Ten Per Cent because...

Another sporting chance for China?
The Guardian

The forthcoming Paralympics is another opportunity to ask questions of the Chinese authorities...

Angola: blood oil and western hypocrisy
The Guardian

As the oil-rich country heads to the polls today, why are western democracies so partisan in...

Canada's prime minister calls early election

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announces the construction of up to eight Polar Class 5 Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships at CFB Esquimalt in Victoria, British Columbia, Monday July 9, 2007. Canada announced plans Monday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage _ a potentially oil-rich region the United States claims is international territory. A deep water port will also be built in a region the U.S. Geological Survey estimates has as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and

The Charlotte Observer

TORONTO Canada's prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government's hold on power. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party must win an additional 28...
photo: AP / CP, Deddeda Stemler

Maldives set for first multi-party presidential vote

Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, inspects the ceremonial guard of honor at the Rashtrapati Bhawan or Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 11,

The Times of India

7 Sep 2008, 1740 hrs IST,AFP COLOMBO: The Maldives is to hold its first multi-party presidential election next month as part of sweeping political reforms in the Sunni Muslim nation, a minister said on...
photo: AP / Mustafa Quraishi

India to set up over 500 more out posts along its borders

An Indian soldier stands guard near a barbed wire fence along the Line of Control, that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, at Baraf Post, 165 kilometers (102 miles) north of Srinagar, India, in this Dec. 4, 2003 photo. Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have taken the historic step of proclaiming their desire to put a half-century of enmity behind them and renew peace talks. At the heart of the matter lies the beautiful bloodstained Himalayan territory of Kashm

The Times of India

NEW DELHI: As part of the Union Home Ministry's strategy to secure the country's borders, over 500 additional Border Out Posts (BOPs) are set to be established at an estimated cost of over...
photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool

Mudslides bury Philippines homes

Soldiers and volunteers continue to search Sunday Dec. 3, 2006 for victims of a mudslides that hit Legazpi city at the height of typhoon "Durian" in Albay province near the slopes of Mayon volcano south of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon "Dur

BBC News

At least 11 people have been killed and 14 others are missing after landslides triggered by heavy rains buried several houses in the southern Philippines. Dozens of rescue...
photo: AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

Olmert promotes West Bank settler buyout plan

Palestinian construction workers build a new housing development in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Betar Illit, near Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007.

The Star

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday it was time to consider offering compensation to Jewish settlers who volunteer to leave parts of the West Bank that Israel would hand to the Palestinians in a statehood deal. Israel's...
photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner

Pope greets Sardinia's "100 something" residents

Pope Benedict XVI places a golden replica of a ship on the statue of the Virgin Mary of Bonaria during an open-air mass in front of the shrine of the Madonna di Bonaria at Cagliari, in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Pope Benedict XVI is currently spending a one-day visit to Sa

The Star

CAGLIARI, Sardinia (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Sunday met some of the centenarians of Sardinia, the Mediterranean island where residents have among the highest rates of longevity in the world. "I wish you will reach my...
photo: AP / Pier Paolo Cito