2011年7月9日星期六

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


INTERVIEW - Pakistan army says NYTimes report "direct attack" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 11:41 AM PDT

Major-General Athar Abbas, a military spokesman, speaks to Reuters in Rawalpindi February 23, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - Reports in the New York Times criticising the Pakistan army and the powerful intelligence agency is a "direct attack" on Pakistan's security, the army spokesman said on Saturday.


Independent S. Sudan "free at last", tensions remain (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 10:28 AM PDT

People take part in South Sudan's independence day celebrations along the streets of Juba early July 9, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas MukoyaReuters - Tens of thousands of South Sudanese danced and cheered as their new nation declared independence on Saturday, a hard-won separation from the north that still leaves simmering issues of disputed borders and oil payments unresolved.


Windies wobble as India take control (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 09:47 AM PDT

Reuters - West Indies were in trouble at 26 for two at lunch on the fourth day of the third and final test against India, trailing by 117 runs.

Murdoch to fly to UK over phone-hack crisis - source (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a news conference at number 10 Downing Street in London July 8, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid/PoolReuters - Rupert Murdoch was set to fly to London to tackle a scandal engulfing his media empire while journalists prepared the last edition of the best-selling Sunday paper they say he has sacrificed to protect plans to expand his television business.


US defense chief says al Qaeda's defeat "within reach" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Leon Panetta testifies on Capitol Hill Washington, June 9, 2011. REUTERS/Jim Young/FilesReuters - New U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, saying he believed the strategic defeat of al Qaeda was within reach if the United States could kill or capture up to 20 remaining leaders of the core group and its affiliates.


Pakistani police search troubled Karachi areas as death toll rises to 98 (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 04:37 AM PDT

A man rides a motorcycle through the smoke of tyres burnt by angry protesters against target killing in Karachi July 8, 2011. REUTERS/Athar HussainReuters - Pakistani security forces combed troubled neighbourhoods in the country's commercial hub, Karachi, on Saturday in search of gunmen as the death toll from ethnic and political violence, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, rose to 98.


Afghan insurgent attacks dip for first time - Petraeus (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 10:29 AM PDT

U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), delivers remarks before he administers the oath of re-affirmation and re-enlistment to U.S. service members at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar July 4, 2011. REUTERS/Haraz N. Ghanbari/U.S. Navy/HandoutReuters - Insurgent attacks against Afghan and NATO forces in Afghanistan have started to decline on an annual basis for the first time in up to five years, defying predictions by intelligence analysts, General David Petraeus said on Saturday.


Murdoch: Closing newspaper a 'collective decision' (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Rupert Murdoch, Australian-American media mogul and the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, speaks briefly to the media as he arrives at the Sun Valley Inn before the start of the second day of the Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Anthony BolanteReuters - Rupert Murdoch said on Saturday the decision to close the embattled "News of the World" tabloid was "a collective decision."


China warns U.S. after politicians meet Dalai Lama (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 02:33 AM PDT

The Dalai Lama speaks in the Capitol in Washington July 7, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - China warned the United States not to interfere in its internal affairs after senior U.S. politicians met in Washington exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a man Beijing reviles as a separatist.


Iran says fires missiles to Indian Ocean for first time (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Jul 2011 04:52 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran. A member of Iran's revolutionary guards walks past a black cloth and Iran's flags in northern Tehran June 3, 2011.Reuters - Iran said on Saturday it test-fired two long-range missiles into the Indian Ocean earlier this year, the first time it has fired missiles into that sea, according to state television.


South Sudanese dance to celebrate independence (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Jul 2011 07:26 PM PDT

People take part in South Sudan's independence day celebrations near the countdown clock in Juba July 9, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas MukoyaReuters - Thousands of South Sudanese danced in the streets on Saturday to mark their long-awaited independence, a hard-won separation from the north that also plunged the fractured region into a new period of uncertainty.


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