Top US commander in Afghanistan under investigation

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Washington, Nov 13:  America's top commander in Afghanistan is being probed for his alleged "inappropriate communication" with a woman linked to former CIA director David Petraeus, who resigned abruptly last week over an extramarital affair. US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, in a statement More

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China blasts 'hypocrisy' of Dalai Lama

Beijing, Nov 13: China has criticized the Dalai Lama's "separatist activities" in Japan and alleged collusion with Japanese right-wing forces in a new attack on the Tibetan spiritual leader. "Dalai's poor performance again revealed his reactionary nature of betraying his motherland and splitting More

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Palestinians begin work to open Arafat grave

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Ramallah, Palestine, Nov 13: The Palestinians on Tuesday began work to open the grave of iconic leader Yasser Arafat ahead of an exhumation of his body for a murder probe, a source close to his family told AFP. “Today they started removing concrete and stones from Arafat’s mausoleum and the More

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Saudi Arabia to launch 2 satellites

Cairo, Nov 13: Saudi Arabia is set to launch two indigenous satellites with a precision navigation system within the next few years, Prince Turki Bin Saud Bin Muhammad has said. According to Prince Turki, who is vice president for research institutes at King Abdul Aziz city for Science and Technology More

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Oxford chooses ‘omnishambles’ as word of year

London, Nov 13: Britain's media are in a meltdown and its government is gaffe-prone, so Oxford Dictionaries has chosen an apt Word of the Year: "omnishambles." Oxford University Press on Tuesday crowned the word - defined as "a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized More

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