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Mansoor Ijaz's testimony to continue today
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ISLAMABAD: The testimony of central figure in memogate scandal Mansoor Ijaz will continue today at Pakistan's High Commission in London, Geo News reported. Secretary Memo Commission Raja ...
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US advisers back experimental obesity pill
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland: Experimental obesity drug Qnexa won the backing of U.S. health advisors on Wednesday, raising hopes for approval of the first prescription weight-loss pill in 13 years. ...
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Punjab: Scores of top cops show-caused
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LAHORE: Inspector General Police (IGP) Punjab has show-caused scores of District Police Officers (DPOs) and 28 Superintendents of Police for not completing challans in different cases on time, Geo ...
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Russian scientists revive 30,000-year-old plants
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MOSCOW: Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study has ...
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Butterfly business booming in Colombia
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BOGOTA: Not long ago, Olga Lucia Salazar was breaking chicken necks and plucking feathers under scalding water for a living. Now, at double her former wage, the single mother of three raises ...
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Assad forces renew barrage on Syria's Homs
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AMMAN/BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 ...
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Plea deal for Pakistani at Guantanamo: report
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WASHINTGON: A Pakistani held at Guantanamo Bay has reached a plea agreement with US prosecutors that will require him to testify at the trials of other terror suspects in return for a reduced ...
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Chavez surgery rocks Venezuela ahead of election
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CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's imminent departure for more cancer surgery in Cuba has thrown his re-election campaign into uncertainty and once again shaken the socialist leader's ...
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Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail
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VIENNA/TEHRAN: The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of ...
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Wall Street closes in red on eurozone concerns
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NEW YORK: US stocks ended Wednesday modestly in the red following disappointing eurozone data that added to signs of recession in the debt-wracked region. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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Microsoft files EU complaint over Google, Motorola
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BRUSSELS/NEW YORK: Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc as it stepped up its battle against Google. ...
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Eurozone teetering on brink of recession
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LONDON: The euro zone economy is in danger of tipping into recession, with the services sector shrinking this month along with manufacturing, tempering a wave of optimism after a new bailout deal ...
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Madrid's Prado puts Mona Lisa's "twin" on display
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MADRID: Madrid's Prado museum has put a contemporary copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" on display just weeks after rocking the art world with revelations about its provenance. The Prado ...
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Adele breaks Whitney Houston's chart record
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LOS ANGELES: The late Whitney Houston was unable to oust Adele from the top spot on the Billboard 200 album chart, and the British singer's "21" replaced "The Bodyguard" as the longest running No. 1 ...
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