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US needs to keep up drone war against Qaeda: Panetta
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (AFP) -The United States will have to keep up an open-ended drone war against Al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan and elsewhere to prevent another terror attack on America, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said. The assassination of Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia with unmanned, robotic aircraft has provoked widespread criticism from human [...]
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South Korea tops global cosmetic surgery chart
By Claire Bates South Koreans have more plastic surgery than any other nation, astonishing new figures reveal. Those in the Asian country have more treatments per members of the population, with one in every 77 turning to the knife or needle. The figures, from the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS), show that in 2011 [...]
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Five accused in Delhi rape case plead not guilty
Five men accused of the savage gang-rape and murder of an Indian student pleaded not guilty on Saturday in a case that shocked the nation and sparked huge demonstrations, one of their lawyers said. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student was brutally assaulted in mid-December on a New Delhi bus. The trial of the five men on [...]
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Pakistan exhumes graft investigator’s body
MULTAN, Pakistan, Feb 2, 2013 (AFP) - Pakistan’s forensic experts on Saturday exhumed the body of an official probing a corruption scandal involving the prime minister, after the graft investigator was found dead last month. Kamran Faisal was found hanging from a ceiling fan in a government hostel on January 18, three days after the Supreme [...]
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Was Gandhi gay? Intimate letters go on display in India
New Delhi (AFP) – The bond between Gandhi and Hermann Kallenbach has been a subject of speculation and gossip for years owing to their closeness, with previously published correspondence suggesting they may have had a physical relationship. One of the handwritten letters from Gandhi to Kallenbach that went on show on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary [...]
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Clinton’s legacy at the heart of US diplomacy
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (AFP) -Hillary Clinton is stepping down as the top US diplomat firm in the belief she has restored America’s global standing during her tenure that may also have traced a path to the White House in 2016. But as she sweeps out of the imposing buildings of the State Department for the last [...]
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Censor backs Haasan opus
Board chief agrees that film ban is ‘cultural terrorism’ By Priyanka Srivastava Leela Samson, CEO of Central Board of Film Certification, has come out strongly in support of actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan who is facing agitation over the allegedly negative portrayal of Muslims in his new film, Vishwaroopam. Samson agreed with Haasan’s view that the whole [...]
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Indian government wants more women in auto driver’s seat
By Neha Pushkarna Delhi may soon have more women autorickshaw drivers as the state government’s transport department exerts itself to bring them on board. The department has decided to provide free training to women to drive autorickshaws, with the aim of making them employable and also making city roads safer. Applications were invited from women [...]
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Hijab for a day: Non-Muslim women who try the headscarf
By Catrin Nye World Hijab Day calls on non-Muslim women to try out life under the traditional head scarf. Can it lead to more religious tolerance and understanding? “Because I’m not very skilled I’m wearing what you could call a one-piece hijab – you just pull it over your head. But I’ve discovered the scope [...]
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Vladimir Putin hires Boyz II Men to boost the Russian birth rate
By Matt Blake Russian president Vladimir Putin has long been at war with his country’s plummetting birth rate, with a concert of measures designed to boost his compatriots’ ailing sex drive. But it seems he has added a new secret weapon to his arsenal: a weapon known as Boyz II Men. Putin apparently hopes to harness [...]
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Chinese hackers target New York Times
By Steve Nolan Chinese hackers attacked the New York Times’ computer system and stole every employee’s password after its investigation into Premier Wen Jiabao’s $2 billion fortune, it was claimed today. The gang reportedly side-stepped the newspaper’s security systems over several months in a bid to track down files relating to Prime Minister Mr Wen and [...]
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New Al Qaeda threat as terror group’s ‘strike map’ is revealed
By Simon Tomlinson Al Qaeda has issued a new threat to carry out ‘earth-shattering, shocking and terrifying’ attacks on the U.S. and Europe, it emerged today. In a posting on a jihadist website, the terror group said the ‘coming strikes’ would target the ‘heart of the land of non-belief’ as well as countries aiding France in [...]
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Twitter apologises after porn is ‘editor’s pick’ on new video site
By Daniel Martin A new video-sharing service on Twitter has been inundated with pornographic footage. One hardcore clip appeared as the editor’s pick at the top of the home page of Vine. Word spread and the footage soon received a ‘popular now’ ranking. The risque video was posted by a user called NSFWVine – a seeming [...]
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America the unequal: The vicious cycle versus the virtuous cycle
By Naomi Wolf PARK CITY, UTAH – The last documentary film that used dry charts and statistics to make an abstract argument about a global issue and nonetheless became a pop-culture hit was Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. But the hit of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was a low-key affair called Inequality for All, [...]
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Japan and the politics of guilt
By Gareth Evans CANBERRA – Japan is again alienating its neighbors and driving its friends to despair over the issue of accepting responsibility for its wartime aggression and atrocities. With the election of the new government, the voices of denial are heard again at the highest levels, and are resonating with the public, including the [...]
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The end of injections
It could finally mean the end of painful injection, and instead deliver a powerful new type of vaccine through a stick on ‘tattoo’. Researchers say patches covered in ‘microneedles’ may be a far safer, and less painful, way to deliver a new generation of vaccines. They claim the system could even be used to deliver DNA [...]
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Could going veg lower your risk of heart disease?
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vegetarians are one-third less likely to be hospitalized or die from heart disease than meat and fish eaters, according to a new UK study. Earlier research has also suggested that non-meat eaters have fewer heart problems, researchers said, but it wasn’t clear if other lifestyle differences, including exercise and smoking [...]
