Veiled Muslim women flout ban in bid for freedom

ELAINE GANLEY

Paris, Sep 22: Kenza Drider’s posters for the French presidential race are ready to go, months before the official campaign begins. There she is, the “freedom candidate,” pictured standing in front of a line of police — a forbidden veil hiding her face. Drider declared her longshot candidacy More

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OBAMA ANGERS PALESTINIANS

AGENCIES

United Nations, Sep 22: US President Barack Obama, trying to avert a showdown on Palestinian statehood, told the United Nations on Wednesday there was no substitute for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations or a short cut to peace. With US credibility and influence in the Middle East at stake, Obama More

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US will not allow terrorist safe havens in Pak: Panetta

LALIT K JHA\PTI

Washington, Sep 22: The US today made it clear that it will not allow safe havens for terrorists in Pakistan which are used to launch attacks on American forces, as Washington mulled options to force Islamabad to confront the issue. "We cannot allow terrorists to have safe havens from which More

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Australia to relax visa norms to woo students

Melbourne, Sep 22: Worried by continuing slide in the international students' numbers, the Australian government has decided to relax visa norms further. The decision has coincided with former New South Wales minister Michael Knight's report that calls for loosening the onerous immigration requirements More

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