Socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday to become France’s next president, heralding a change in how Europe tackles its debt crisis and how France flexes its military and diplomatic muscle around the world. Exuberant, diverse crowds filled the Place de la Bastille, the iconic plaza of the French Revolution, to fete [...]
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Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a member of parliament Wednesday, opening a new chapter in the Nobel laureate’s near quarter-century struggle against authoritarian rule. The 66-year-old, in the capital Naypyidaw for the ceremony, stood to read the brief oath in unison with 33 other members of her National League [...]
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Egyptian security services foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Cairo several months ago, the legal advisor of the kingdom’s embassy Sami Jamal said in local dailies on Tuesday. Egypt “arrested three Iranians planning to assassinate the ambassador, Ahmed Qattan,” Al-Hayat quoted Sami Jamal as saying. “Egyptian authorities informed concerned parties at the Saudi foreign [...]
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Naypyitawn: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in to Myanmar’s military-backed parliament today, taking public office for the first time since releasing her battle against authoritarian rule nearly a quarter century ago. The 66-year-old opposition leader’s entry into the legislature heralds a new political era in Myanmar, cementing a risky detente between her [...]
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Kabul: 3 car bomb explosions occurred in the eastern part of capital Kabul on Wednesday hours after US President Barack Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to meet his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai. At least 2 people, including a guard and a civilian passerby, were killed and 17 injured when suicide bombers rammed a [...]
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US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda have warned North Korea that its “old pattern of provocation” is over. Mr Obama said North Korea’s recent actions, including its failed rocket launch, would “only serve to deepen Pyongyang’s isolation”. Mr Noda said there was “a great possibility” that Pyongyang would carry out its [...]
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Paris – French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday fiercely denied that he was offered campaign funding from late Libyan innovator Moammar Gadhafi, as new challenges piled up against him a week ahead of the country’s presidential runoff. Nicolas Sarkozy also rebuffed leftist critics who compared his campaign rhetoric with that of France’s Nazi collaborators, refrereviving ugly [...]
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On the weekend of their 1st wedding anniversary, Britain’s prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, celebrated the wedding of close friends. The couple spent Saturday at the wedding of Middleton’s old school chum Hannah Gillingham, who had attended Marlborough College with the future duchess, and groom Robert Carter, said Us [...]
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Mexico City: A Mexican lady Karla Vanessa Perez is pregnant with nine babies, and the expected date is May 20. Karla Vanessa Perez is expecting six girls and three boys. Karla, who already has triplets, was described as coming from the north-eastern state of Coahuila, which borders the U.S. state of Texas. Karla’s husband Bernardo is [...]
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Spain’s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions”, a minister said on Friday, as unemployment hit its highest level in almost two decades and Standard and Poor’s downgraded the government’s debt by two notches. Unemployment shot up to 24 percent in the first quarter, one of the worst jobless figures in the developed world. Retail sales [...]
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