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(Photo: AP / Richard Drew)Why Zardari said what America wanted to hear
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America's latest export: empty municipal coffers
James Doran reports from New York on how all 50 state treasuries are failing to raise the billions needed just to keep functioning and pay the wages | The Golden State needs $7bn in the short term just to pay wages of civil servants and maintain infrastructure | Financi...Full Story
North Korea off US terror blacklist
| THE United States today struck North Korea from a terror blacklist after saying Pyongyang agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants. | The announcement of the deal appeared to inject new momentum into the histo...Full Story
Three killed in US missile attack in Pakistan
| 12 Oct 2008, 0035 hrs IST,REUTERS               Text: MIRANSHAH: Suspected US drones fired two missile on Saturday into a Pakistani region regarded as a safe haven for al-Qaida and Taliban militants, killing three people, a Reut...Full Story
India, US sign 123 agreement
|               Text: NEW DELHI: In the midst of the largest financial crisis in recent times, India and the US triumphantly signed the 123 agreement ending India’s nuclear isolation and capping the three-year dramatic journey o...Full Story
Why Zardari said what America wanted to hear
| 12 Oct 2008, 0201 hrs IST, M J Akbar               Text: No passport has yet been devised that can take one easily across the borderline of fear. Pakistan used to fear annihilation by India; now it fears hegemony. India used to ...Full Story
Is this the end of the American era?
| A few nights ago, having read far too much about the alarming drop of share prices on Wall Street, I fell asleep trying to remember those lines from Shelley's Ozymandias that were drummed into my skull at school long ago: . . . Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Sta...Full Story
Bush troop surge to stem rise of Taliban
| IN AN attempt to enhance his legacy and place his stamp on the direction of the war after he leaves office, President George W Bush is expected to announce a "surge" of up to 10,000 troops in Afghanistan as part of a political, military and diplomatic offensive in the...Full Story
US removes North Korea from terror list
| WASHINGTON – The United States on Saturday struck North Korea from a terrorism blacklist after saying Pyongyang agreed to steps to verify its nuclear disarmament and pledged to resume disabling its atomic plants. | The announcement at the State Department appeared to ...Full Story
U.S. removes North Korea from terrorism blacklist
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration. North Koreans participate in celebrations for the 60th anniversary...Full Story
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U.S. removing North Korea from terrorism list
The Star | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced on Saturday it would take North Korea off its terrorism blacklist amid faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration. | The decision was made after North Korea agr...
U.S. says North Korea to come off terrorism list
The Star North Koreans participate in celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of North Korea in Pyongyang, September 9, 2008. (REUTERS/Kyodo) | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States announced on Saturday it would take North Korea off its terr...
'Japanese OJ' kills self after extradition to US
Sydney Morning Herald | A businessman dubbed the Japanese OJ Simpson accused of plotting his wife's murder in Los Angeles in 1981 has killed himself after being extradited to the US to face trial, the foreign ministry in Tokyo said. | A ministry official, citing informati...
Sat 11 Oct 2008
U.S. takes N. Korea off terror list
Houston Chronicle | WASHINGTON - The Bush administration announced on Saturday that it was removing North Korea from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, in a bid to salvage a fragile nuclear deal that seemed on the verge of collapse. | Sean McCormack, the State Dep...
U.S. warns of "Al-Qaeda" group threat in Sudan
International Herald Tribune | By Andrew Heavens | The United States said on Saturday a group called "Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles" has threatened its citizens and allies in Sudan, adding to fears of a growing extremist presence in the country. | Embassy officials also ...
Five killed in U.S. missile attack in Pakistan
International Herald Tribune | By Haji Mujtaba | Suspected U.S. drones fired two missile on Saturday into a Pakistani region regarded as an al Qaeda and Taliban safe haven, killing at least five militants, residents and an intelligence official said. | It was the second such att...
U.S. takes North Korea off terrorism blacklist
International Herald Tribune | By Sue Pleming | The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration. | The decision was made after North Korea agreed to ...
U.S.-led forces kill 9 militants in Afghanistan
International Herald Tribune | : U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops killed nine militants in overnight clashes in southern and central Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Saturday. | Violence has surged in Afghanistan with some 3,800 people, a third of them civilians, kille...
North Korea agrees to US nuclear inspection demands, then dropped from US terrorism blacklist
The Associated Press | By MATTHEW LEE | Associated Press Writer | AP Photo/Kevin Wolf Buy AP Photo Reprints | Multimedia Latest News | Your Questions Answered | WASHINGTON (AP) -- After North Korea relented on nuclear inspection demands, the U.S. on Saturday erased from ...
2 intelligence officials say suspected US missile strike kills 3 in NW Pakistan
The Associated Press | By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD | Associated Press Writer | AP Photo/MUHAMMAD SAJJAD Buy AP Photo Reprints Multimedia Latest News | Your Questions Answered | Photo Gallery | DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) -- A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people l...
Five killed in U.S. missile attack in Pakistan
Canada Dot Com | MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Suspected U.S. drones fired two missile on Saturday into a Pakistani region regarded as an al Qaeda and Taliban safe haven, killing at least five militants, residents and an intelligence official said. | It was the s...
U.S. takes North Korea off terrorism blacklist
Canada Dot Com | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its terrorism blacklist in a bid to revive faltering denuclearization talks in the final months of the Bush administration. | The decision was made after North Korea agre...
McCain and Obama on US-North Korea agreement
The State | Statements by the presidential candidates on North Korea's agreement to all U.S. nuclear inspection demands. In response, the Bush administration on Saturday removed the communist country from a terrorism blacklist. | --- | Republican presidential ...
'Japanese O.J.' kills self after extradition to US -
Yahoo Daily News | 1 hour, 44 minutes ago | LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A Japanese businessman hanged himself in a Los Angeles jail cell where he was awaiting trial for plotting his wife's murder here in 1981, prosecutors said Saturday. | Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, killed himself ...
U.S. missile attack in Pakistan kills 3
MSNBC Al-Qaida haven targeted near Afghan border; Pakistan condemns strikesmsnbc.com news services | MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A suspected U.S. missile strike killed three people close to the Afghan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials said. | The atta...
North Korea Removed from U.S. Terror List in Return for Nuclear Inspections
Voanews | Replicas of North Korea's Scud-B missile (C) and other South Korean missiles at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul ( | The United States on Saturday removed North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism in exchange for a verification...
Suspected U.S. Missile Strike Kills At Least 3 in Pakistan
Voanews | Afghan refugees in Pakistan ( | Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed at least three people along the Afghan border. | Saturday's strike in the town of Miran Shah was the second such attack in the North Waziristan triba...
'US missile' hits Pakistan town
BBC News | At least three people died in a missile attack on a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, say officials. | Unmanned US aircraft are reported to have fired the missiles into the town of Miran Shah in North Waziristan. | Two drones were spo...
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