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Sunday, 23 May 2010

Centre for changes in Memorandum of Procedure of appointment of Judges: Moily

J. Venkatesan So that the Executive will have more say in the appointments...

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Japan Leader Apologizes Over US Base on Okinawa The New York Times

Filed at 12:56 a.m. ET TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's embattled prime minister apologized Sunday to the people of Okinawa that he is ditching his campaign promise to move a U.S. military base off the island -- a concession that is likely to further erode his grip on power. During his party's campaign for...

China seeks hidden millions in New Zealand: report Yahoo Daily News

WELLINGTON (AFP) – Chinese authorities are investigating whether millions of dollars embezzled by a former rail company executive have been laundered through New Zealand, a report said Sunday. Liu Guiting, the former head of China's first publicly listed rail company, gained New Zealand...

Investigators scour wreckage after India plane crash Yahoo Daily News

MANGALORE, India (AFP) – Investigators on Sunday sifted through the charred wreckage of an Indian passenger plane that overshot the runway and plunged into a ravine, killing 158 people on board. The Air India Express Boeing 737-800, carrying 160 passengers and six crew on a flight from Dubai,...

Truck-bus collision kills 32 in China Yahoo Daily News

BEIJING – A head-on collision between a truck and bus in northeastern China killed 32 people and another 21 injured early Sunday. The accident happened along...

Investigator: 2 detained admit aiding NYC bomb try Yahoo Daily News

ISLAMABAD – Two men detained in Pakistan admitted with pride that they helped the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing, and one of the men angrily accused his interrogators of "siding with the infidels," a senior intelligence official said Saturday. The pair are among six men...

Japan PM apologises for breaking US base vow Yahoo Daily News

TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Sunday apologised for breaking his election pledge to relocate an unpopular US military base on Okinawa which had soured ties with Washington. The prime minister faced angry protests during a visit to Okinawa from residents who had hoped to...

U.S. strategy rests on Kandahar offensive MSNBC

The Obama administration's campaign to drive the Taliban out of Afghanistan's second-largest city is a go-for-broke move that even its authors are unsure will succeed. The bet is that the Kandahar operation, backed by thousands of U.S. troops and billions of dollars, will break the mystique and...

India investigates air crash cause Al Jazeera

The Indian government has set up an investigative body to look into the cause of a air crash that killed 158 people. An Air India Express jet was landing just outside the port city of Mangalore on India's southwest coast when it burst into flames on Saturday. Eight passengers escaped but some are in...

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