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बोइङ दुई टुक्रा भएर दुर्घटना,१६३ यात्रु सबै सकुसल
काठमाडौँ, साउन १५ (एजेन्सी)- दक्षिण अमेरिकी राष्ट्र गायनामा अवतरण गर्दैगर्दा १६३ यात्रुले भरिएको एउटा बोइङ विमान दुई टुक्रा हुने गरी दुर्घटना भएको छ। घटनामा सबै यात्रु सकुशल छन्, जसलाई सबैले ‘चमत्कार’को संज्ञा दिएका छन्। क्यारेबियन एअरलाइन्सको बोइङ ७३७ विमान न्युयोर्कबाट गायनाको जर्जटाउनस्थित चेद्दी जगन विमानस्थलमा अवतरण गर्दैगर्दा धावनमार्गबाट उछिट्टिएर दुर्घटना भएको थियो। केही यात्रुहरु दुर्घटनामा [...]
US State Department spokesman steps down amid flap
WASHINGTON- U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is resigning his post, the department said on Sunday, after reports that Crowley had called “stupid” the Pentagon’s treatment of a U.S. soldier accused of leaking secret documents that appeared on the WikiLeaks website. “It is with regret that I have accepted the resignation of Philip J. Crowley [...]
Brazil’s first female president sworn in
BRASILIA : From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America’s largest nation, it’s been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil’s seat of power Saturday. In becoming the country’s 36th president, Ms. Rousseff pulled off a feat nearly unthinkable [...]
Signs Point to Extending All Bush Tax Cuts Temporarily
Republicans and Democrats sat down Wednesday to negotiate a compromise on extending Bush-era income tax cuts—an effort that could be the first step toward a deal this month that many strategists in both parties believe will temporarily extend current tax rates for all income levels. No decisions were reported from the first meeting of the [...]
EU’s Ashton to hold talks with Iran next week
Iran will hold two days of talks with EU officials in Geneva next week, the first top-level nuclear discussions in 14 months, officials said on Tuesday. Iran’s nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili will sit down for negotiations with European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on December 6-7, said an Ashton spokesman. “We have now received [...]
Underground NZ mining may be stopped: PM
THE future of New Zealand’s entire underground mining industry is in doubt in the wake of a colliery disaster that claimed 29 lives, Prime Minister John Key says. The industry, which has enjoyed a boom in recent years thanks to surging demand from Asia, could not continue if there was a risk of more tragedies [...]
WikiLeaks won’t hurt U.S. diplomacy: Clinton
The recent leak of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables will have no adverse effect on America’s international relations, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Wednesday at a security summit. Ms. Clinton said she has discussed the revelations published on the WikiLeaks website with her colleagues at a security summit in Astana, the [...]
South Africa Intensifies AIDS Campaign as New HIV Infections Start to Slow
South Africa is stepping up an anti- AIDS campaign that is starting to slow the spread of HIV, which affects 5.7 million of its citizens, more than any other nation, and hampers growth of Africa’s biggest economy. The number of people receiving AIDS drugs at public hospitals has more than doubled to about 1 million [...]
Bank of America Keeps On Dropping
This has not been a good week for Bank of America. Shares of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) dropped over 3% today to $10.95 per share today. The stock has been in a free fall over the past year losing nearly half of its value.Why is the stock dropping? The banking giant dropped today due [...]
Two Americas: The Overprivileged and The Ignored
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated last week that, while a national unemployment figure of roughly 10 percent nationally is alarming enough, the figure is better than double that figure for those Americans without college degrees. While America stands at a dangerous crossroad with a disparity between the super rich and the rest of [...]
Leaked cables rattle the Americas
From Cuban spies in Venezuela to reports of presidential tumors in Bolivia, WikiLeaks is fueling a wave of rumors and resentment in Latin America. Argentine politicians defended their leader’s mental health, Bolivia denied its president had a tumor and Venezuela accused the United States of dividing the region, as WikiLeaks continued to rile Latin America [...]
FIFA says corruption case closed, rules out new probe
ZURICH, Switzerland — FIFA says it has ruled out examining fresh allegations made by a British television program that three senior officials took secret payments related to marketing deals. FIFA says “the investigation and the case are definitely closed.” The BBC’s documentary show Panorama alleged Monday that FIFA executive committee members Ricardo Teixeira, Nicolas Leoz [...]
Tons of Marijuana Found in Mexican Drug Smuggling Tunnel
SAN DIEGO : A sophisticated cross-border tunnel equipped with a rail system, ventilation and fluorescent lighting has been shut down by U.S. and Mexican officials — the second discovery of a major underground drug passage in San Diego this month, authorities said Friday. The tunnel found Thursday is 2,200 feet long and runs from the [...]
Artillery heard on tense Yellow Sea island
Fresh artillery shots were heard on Friday on the tense South Korean island of Yeonpyeong, three days after it was devastated by a North Korean attack and hours after Pyongyang warned that the peninsula was on the brink of war. The blasts happened just after the top U.S. commander in South Korea, Gen. Walter Sharp, [...]
Does Sarah Palin know America by Heart?
Sarah Palin’s new book, America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag, hit bookshelves this week and Palin herself hit the road on a whirlwind book tour that conveniently took her to conservative strongholds and important bellwether election states like Ohio and Iowa. So what’s this new book all about – and what does [...]
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