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G20 pledges to halve fiscal deficits within three years along with promises of stricter banking regulation to come did little to rally wary stock markets on Monday, with some commentators saying the summit pointed more to disunity than global co-operation. According to the final communiqué, the G20 acknowledges that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the world’s economic problems and fiscal consolidation will be “differentiated to national circumstances.” Those with serious debt problems need to step up the pace, while Japan was given an exemption. The G20 also said banks would be required to hold more and better quality capital, though detailed guidelines won’t be available until the next summit in Seoul, South Korea in November. They also abandoned efforts to introduce a global bank tax acknowledging “a range of policy approaches” to the problem. “The fact that the phase-in of new regu...

North Korean officials are criticizing the U.S. for bringing heavy weapons into a border village in the demilitarized zone that divides the Korean peninsula, state media reported Monday. State-run KCNA claims U.S. forces brought weapons into the Panmunjom area Saturday morning. A U.S. military spokesperson did not immediately return a call requesting comment. "The introduction of heavy weapons to the area around the conference hall where armed forces of both sides stand in acute confrontation is a premeditated provocation aimed to spark off a serious military conflict," the agency said. North Korean military officials have said they will "take strong military countermeasures" if the weapons are not removed, according to KCNA. Tensions have been running high on the Korean peninsula since the sinking in March of a South Korean warship. South Korea blames North Korea for the sinking, which left 46 people dead, but Pyongyang denies the claim. Last wee...

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Bob Herbert: Women at Risk "I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne — yet 30 million women rejected me," wrote George Sodini in a blog that he kept while preparing for this week's shooting in a Pennsylvania gym in which he killed three women, wounded nine others and then killed himself. We've seen this tragic ritual so often that it has the feel of a formula. A guy is filled with a seething rage toward women and has easy access to guns. The result: mass slaughter. Back in the fall of 2006, a fiend invaded an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania, separated the girls from the boys, and then shot 10 of the girls, killing five. I wrote, at the time, that there would have been thunderous outrage if someone had separated potential victims by race or religion and then shot, say, only the blacks, or only the whites, or only the Jews. But if you shoot only the girls or only the women — not so much of an uproar. Or, can you imagine if the...

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A while back, I posted a poem written by Drew Dillinger. It begins: it's 3:23 in the morning and I'm awake because my great great grandchildren won't let me sleep my great great grandchildren ask me in dreams what did you do while the planet was plundered? what did you do when the earth was unraveling? Words have power. And these are powerful words. I am not the only one who think so. Recently a congresswoman quoted the poem during Congressional hearings on climate change legislation. DellingerPoem_Congress from drew dellinger on Vimeo .

The first question which come into mind after listening to such tragic attacks on masajid is that who are behind these attacks? Who want to de-stabilize Pakistan? Who is the benificiary of these attacks? Who can kill muslims?? or Who want to kill civilian innocent muslims? And an answer to these question in the form of question Can Muslim attack a masjid? Definately the answer is a big "NO". And similarly if we analyze all the questions which i have raised earlier the rough answer could be A muslim cant attack on masajid, neither a muslim wants to de-stabilize Pakistan, nor a muslim can kill their own muslim brothers. The only possible force behind these attack could be the forces which are very strong across the Duarand line of Pakistan. India has already established 21 consultes in Afghanistan along the Pakistani border. These 21 offices were opened for insurgency into Pakistan to de-stabilize it. India is executing the same game plan which she has executed in 1971 by insur...

Homeless encampments dubbed "tent cities" are springing up across the US, partly in response to soaring numbers of home repossessions, the credit crunch and rising unemployment, according to a report. Homelessness , car camps and tent cities are certainly not new , but they are growing rapidly. In Reno, Nevada, the state with the nation's highest repossessions rate, a tent city recently sprung up on the city's outskirts and quickly filled up with about 150 people. Many, such as Sylvia Flynn, 51, who came from northern California, ended up homeless after losing their jobs and home. Officials say they do not know how many homeless the city has. "But we do know that the soup kitchens are serving hundreds more meals a day and that we have more people who are homeless than we can remember," Jodi Royal-Goodwin, the city's redevelopment agency director, said. In California, the upmarket city of Santa Barbara is housing homeless people who live in their cars in ...

AMagazine WASHINGTON: Unprecedented intelligence cooperation involving investigating agencies and spy outfits of India, United States, United Kingdom and Israel has got underway to crack the method and motive behind the Mumbai terrorist massacre, now widely blamed on Islamist radicals who appeared to have all four countries on their hit list when they arrived on the shores of India. Investigators, forensic analysts, counter-terrorism experts and spymasters from agencies the four countries are converging in New Delhi and Mumbai to put their heads, resources, and skills together to understand the evolving nature of the beast. The spy chief of the Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) is also being summoned to India to help with the investigations because of the widely-held view that the terrorists' footprints go back to Pakistan. The Bush administration has taken the lead to forge cooperation, partly out of concern that charges by India that the terror plot has Pakistani f...

AMagazine NEW DELHI: Britain, Canada and Australia have advised their citizens visiting India not to travel to Mumbai. The US have not yet updated any travel advisory. This follows reports that terrorists were specifically looking for British and US passport holders at the two five-star hotels which they attacked late Wednesday night in Mumbai. The British Foreign Office advised against “all non-essential travel to Mumbai until further notice”. “If you are currently in Mumbai we advise you to stay indoors and monitor the media,” it added, noting that they should contact their travel agent for information as some flights have been cancelled. The Foreign Office also gave Mumbai and Britain phones numbers for British citizens or their relatives to contact for information. “We advise all British nationals in the city to stay indoors until local authorities advise that it is safe to go outside,” the notice added. The Australian foreign ministry's travel advice also had a similar tenor, ...

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John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is the senior United States Senator from Arizona and presidential nominee of the Republican Party in the 2008 presidential election. McCain graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958. He became a naval aviator, flying ground-attack aircraft from aircraft carriers. During the Vietnam War, he nearly lost his life in the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. In October 1967 while on a bombing mission over Hanoi, he was shot down, badly injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese. He was a prisoner of war until 1973, experiencing episodes of torture and refusing an out-of-sequence early repatriation offer; his war wounds left him with lifelong physical limitations. He retired from the Navy as a captain in 1981, moved to Arizona, and entered politics. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, he served two terms, and was then elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, winning re-election easily in 1992, 1998, and 2004. While generally adhering to c...

CNews ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office spokesman Mohammed Sadiq said Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is detained in US jail for terror charges, would be brought back to Pakistan along with her children.Addressing media, he said Pakistan has formally contacted US authorities for the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, adding the human rights organizations and women rights organizations would also be contacted in this regard.Pakistani diplomats in this connection, have formally submitted an application to US authorities to hand over Dr Aafia. The Pakistani embassy in Washington conveyed the demand to the State Department, saying if the children of the 36-year old Pakistani scientist are in the US custody, they be handed over immediately for their return to homeland.The embassy once again urged the US authorities to ensure that Ms Siddiqui does not have to go through any humiliation or degradation under the pretext of body searches before and after visits by her attorneys.It also raised the issue of avail...

CNews WASHINGTON: Pakistan has officially demanded U.S that Pakistani detainee Dr. Aafia Siddiqui be provided under Pakistan’s custody here on late Tuesday, sources said.Pakistan ambassador to United States Hussain Haqqani has forwarded a letter to U.S State Department demanding sue motto custody of Aafia Siddiqui to Pakistan, it added.Letter reveals Pakistan’s demand to U.S to immediately entrust Dr. Aafia and her three children to Pakistan custody. Pakistan embassy sources said.Dr. Aafia Siddiqui matter has been politicized in Pakistan and the people want her immediate release, it further added.

CNews TBILISI: Russian warplanes attacked more targets around the capital Tbilisi, early on Monday (August 10) while U.S. President George W. Bush condemned Moscow's "disproportionate response" to the South Ossetian crisis. Russian planes bombed a military base and radar installation the interior ministry said, hours after France's foreign minister arrived in Georgia on a mediation mission. "We detected a lot of objects moving from Tskhinvali on our monitors, and as usual we sent the information to the control point and then we saw three jets moving from the territory of Azerbaijan. Then we got an order to leave the radar building, looked around and saw it was headwind from Tbilisi direction," said Alexander Zikov, head of the locator set, shortly after the attack. "The radar set controlled planes during taking off and landing. It controlled the military crafts as well and that is why it was targeted," said Zikov looking at the installation ablaze...

CNews Russia has continued air raids deep inside Georgia, after it rejected Tbilisi's announcement that it had called a ceasefire and wanted talks. Jets bombed targets near Tbilisi, including the airport, and a Georgian boat was later sunk, reports said. Earlier Georgia said its troops had pulled out of the breakaway region of South Ossetia and Russia was in control of its capital, Tskhinvali. Thousands of civilians have fled - it is not clear how many have been killed. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili told the CNews his forces had observed a ceasefire since 0500 on Sunday morning, but had still been bombed by Russian planes. He said his government had been trying "all day" to contact Russia to discuss a ceasefire. Peace mission Russian jets were still carrying out bombing raids late on Sunday. Witnesses said jets had hit Tbilisi International Airport, as well as a military airfield close to the Georgian capital. The airport was hit only a few hours before French Fo...