Obama to sign new sanctions bill against Iran
Tweet Washington : US President Barack Obama will sign into law Thursday a new sanctions bill against Iran, the White House said. The bill, passed last week by the House of Representatives and the Senate respectively, contains sanctions targeting Iran’s energy and banking sectors, Xinhua reported. Under the bill, businesses that help supply Iran with [...]
Tweet Tokyo : Toyota Motor Corp is to recall its top-of-the-range Lexus LS460 sedans on concerns about the vehicle’s engine stalling, a media report said Thursday. The Nikkei business daily reported that Toyota is considering recalling tens of thousands of the Lexus LS460 worldwide. The model’s engine reportedly stalls while the vehicle is running and [...]
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Tweet Nairobi/Abuja : Nigerian football was in disarray Wednesday after President Goodluck Jonathan suspended the national team from all international tournaments for two years following the Super Eagles’ poor showing at the World Cup in South Africa. The suspension was announced by presidential spokesman Ima Niboro. Jonathan also ordered the dissolution of the Nigeria Football [...]
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Tweet Los Angeles : The British model-actress Elizabeth Hurley was terrified as her businessman husband Arun Nayar burned his hand while trying to light a bonfire. Nayar was preparing to light a bonfire at their countryside farm in south-west England last year, when a kerosene blast singed Nayar’s hair and burned his hand, reports hollywood.com. [...]
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Tweet London : Hollywood actress Renee Zellweger has relaxed her strict diet and fitness regime and has put on 10 kg in recent months. Zellweger, who usually sticks to a strict macrobiotic diet of fish and vegetables, has reportedly put on 10 kg and is pleased with her curvier figure, reports femalefirst.co.uk. A source close [...]
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Tweet London : Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary with a romantic meal at a restaurant in Nashville, US, last week. The couple, who have a 23-month-old daughter, Sunday Rose, together, marked the special occasion as they enjoyed a romantic dinner, reports contactmusic.com. “Nicole looked stunning, very [...]
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Tweet Los Angeles : Hollywood actress Kristen Stewart has an unusual pet – a wolf-dog hybrid, which she has named Jack. The “Twilight” star admits having a wolf-mix breed as a pet, and the animal is “hard to take care of”, reports hollywoodnews.com. “This is my pet; this is Jack. He’s our oldest male. I [...]
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Tweet Washington: The US agreed Tuesday to accept help from the dozens of nations and international groups that have for weeks offered their assistance to collect oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the State Department said. The US said it will accept offers from 22 countries and 12 international bodies for containment booms to halt [...]
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Tweet Washington : Two Republican lawmakers have asked the US Export-Import Bank to reverse its decision to deny loan guarantees to India’s Reliance Power Ltd for a coal-fired plant in Madhya Pradesh. The bank “should place jobs over environmental activism and reverse its recent decision not to extend loan guarantees to an Indian power plant [...]
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Tweet London : Forty-five percent of the victims of racial attacks in Britain are Indian, says a study which also claims that such violence is spreading in the country due to the government’s approach towards racism. The report, Racial Violence: The Buried Issue, released this week by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), analysed 660 [...]
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