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Pakistan seeks financial assistance in Istanbul

Tweet Istanbul : Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi arrived here Monday to attend the ministerial meeting of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP), the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.   Pakistani Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said Monday that Pakistan is trying to engage the private sector of FoDP countries to participate more [...]

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US appoints prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses

Tweet Washington :US Attorney General Eric Holder Monday appointed a special prosecutor to re-examine nearly a dozen cases of CIA interrogators who allegedly abused terrorism detainees in the aftermath of the Sep 11, 2001, attacks. It was one of a flurry of decisions and reports issued throughout Monday relating to former President George W. Bush’s [...]

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Chavez against US military bases in Colombia

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Tweet Caracas : Tensions between Caracas and Bogota are rising after Colombia signed a defence pact with Washington to set up US military bases in Colombia, officials said. Although the details of the agreement were not made public yet, a statement issued by the US embassy in Bogota said Monday it would enable the US [...]

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GM board reluctant to sell Opel to Canada’s Magna

Tweet Toronto: General Motors’s new board is reportedly reluctant to sell its Opel unit to Canada’s auto-parts giant Magna International. Magna, which is the world’s third largest part maker, and the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation (called Sberbank), have jointly submitted a $775-mmilon bid to acquire a 55 percent stake in Opel. Brussels-based financial [...]

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