Obama Transcript from Jakarta Speech

Obama reaches out to the Muslim world..

Transcript: President Barack Obama continued with a morning speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta this morning. The president last gave a similar speech in Cairo, Egypt in 2009...

Pakistan gets IMF relief, tightens security

The International Monetary Fund will give Pakistan $450 million in emergency flood aid, providing some relief for a government overwhelmed by the disaster....

Huge Mass Graves Found

Bangladeshi soldiers recovered 10 more bodies in a second mass grave in a military compound in the capital on Saturday, bringing to 76 the death toll from a mutiny staged by border guards over pay…

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Source: oil.co.za

War 'unlikely' despite rhetoric between Indian, Pakistan

Hostility between India and Pakistan is at its worst in years, but tensions stemming from last week's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, are unlikely to bloom into full-blown war between the nuclear-armed rivals - at least for now, according to analysts on both sides of the border..

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Source: gulf news

Thousands of US jobs created with US-India Nuclear deal.

(photo: White House /Eric Draper)

The US is looking at reviving its flagging nuclear power industry and generating thousands of jobs through the nuclear deal.

In its communication to the US Congress, the state department had talked about major opportunities from India’s plans to import at least eight 1,000 mw power reactors by 2012.

The US assessment is that even if American companies were to win contracts for just two reactors, thousands of jobs will be: Read more

Source: world news network

Mystery virus kills 160 in India -

Mystery virus kills 160

“We really don’t know what exactly it is; we are depending on the finding of a team of specialists from New Delhi,” said Dr RC Agarwal, the district’s new chief medical officer.