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  • China accepts there are some problems with India but wants to resolve all issues peacefully

    Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang, alluding to recent skirmishes on their Himalayan border, acknowledged on Monday, that there were some problems with good friend India but said that the two Asian giants should take a leaf out of their vast history to resolve all issues peacefully. "Since we are strategic partners and we are good friends that can speak to each other with candour, so we do not deny ...

  • Chinese Premier Li Keqiang meets Salman Khurshid

    Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid here on Monday, as he sought to strengthen mutual trust and deepen cooperation between the two nations after a recent military standoff in Ladakh threatened to derail ties between the two Asian giants. The Chinese premier also visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi and paid homage to the father of the Indian ...

  • India China ties essential for Asia world Manmohan Singh

    Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that India and China's relationship is essential for stability and prosperity in Asia and the world, while stressing the need "for an early resolution of the boundary dispute. "There are many areas of convergence between us. We agreed that the relationship is of growing significance and essential for peaceful development and stability and prosperity in ...

  • US Pakistan moves to curb dangerous fertilizers

    ISLAMABAD -; A top American military officer says Pakistan has taken steps to prevent fertilizers made in Pakistan from being used for roadside bombs targeting American troops in ...

  • Saudi Saudi Arabia signs accord to protect Philippine maids

    maids from being exploited in the Middle Eastern kingdom. The agreement guarantees Filipina maids benefits like a day off each week while preventing their hiring costs from being deducted from their salary among other safeguards, said labour secretary Rosalinda Baldoz in a statement. "We are very confident that cases of abuse will be less after this agreement takes effect because the ...

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A Prairie Home Companion [DVD]

A Prairie Home Companion [DVD]

With his hangdog mug and mellifluous voice, Garrison Keillor has been a mainstay of public radio since the mid-1970s when he came up with the idea of producing a musical-comedy variety show with fictional commercials that would recall the 1930s heyday of radio, when ... ...

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  • Caluag rules Asian BMX Elite category

    LONDON Olympian Daniel Caluag greatly admired the undulating course at the Tampines Bike Park in Singapore, and it's not difficult to figure why. The Filipino-American validated his status as the continent's No. 1 BMX rider with a sizzling run on the dusty 355-meter Tampines course to win the gold medal in the men's Elite category of the recent 8th Asian BMX Championships. ...

  • 19 Indian state officials face corruption charges

    LUCKNOW, India (AP) -- An Indian state official is recommending that 19 people be charged with misappropriating millions of dollars in the construction of monuments honoring dalits, the lowest Hindu ...

  • Nepal government investigating illegal Everest broadcast

    A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with theNepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said ...

  • Pakistans former military ruler Musharraf granted bail

    A judge granted bail to Pakistan's former military ruler on Monday in a case related to the assassination of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his lawyer ...

  • Baghdad car bomb kills 13 raises death toll to 70

    Shia neighborhood in Baghdad has killed 13 people. The blast pushed the day's death toll from a deadly wave of bombings and shooting attacks across Iraq to 70. The officials say the latest blast struck on Monday afternoon in a busy market in the Shaab Shia neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. A police officer says 25 people wounded in the explosion. A medical official confirmed the casualty ...

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