Wants good relations between India, Pak: US
Washington: The United States wants good relationship between India and Pakistan, a State Department official has said, adding that its diplomacy is focused on that direction. “We want Pakistan and India to have a good relationship, we want Pakistan and Afghanistan to have a good relationship, and we focused a lot of our diplomacy in that direction,” the State
Department spokesperson, Patrick Ventrell, said at his daily news conference onMonday
Statue of liberty to reopen On July 4
New York: Months after Superstorm Sandy swamped her little island, the Statue of liberty will finally welcome visitors again.Sandy made landfall one day after the statue’s 126th birthday. The storm flooded most of liberty Island in New York Harbor. lady liberty herself was spared, but the surrounding grounds took a beating.
Malala reunites with Pak friend in Britain
london: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban, has been reunited with her friend who was injured in the same attack in Pakistan last year. Shazia Ramzan arrived at Birmingham Airport on Tuesday after she was granted a student visa to the UK to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor.
China floods kill
39: state media
Beijing: Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in China have left at least 39 people dead since the weekend, state media reported on Tuesday, warning of more downpours to come. Another 13 people were still missing in nine affected areas China Daily said.
Bombs, clashes kill at least 54 in Iraq
Baghdad: Insurgents unleashed a new wave of attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, killing at least 47 people, officials said, the latest in a surge in violence across the country that has raised concerns over a return to sectarian bloodshed. Also, seven militants were killed.There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, mostly car bombs in Shiite areas.
Al-Qaeda's Iraq branch, which has been gaining strength in recent months, frequently targets Shiites, security forces
and civil servants in an effort to undermine the Shiite-led government
in Baghdad.