Zardari to face graft cases next month
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will have to face several old corruption cases when he loses his immunity from prosecution at the end of his five-year term next month, a Government official said.
105 dead, many trapped in heavy floods in China
Beijing: China’s worst floods in decades triggered by Typhoon Utor in its northeast and southern regions rose to 105 on Monday, even as a series of landslides buried six vehicles and trapped an unknown number of people.
No external solutions: lanka President
Colombo: President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday told his political rivals not to internationalise Sri lanka’s problems and instead look to settle them internally.”Some go to India and utter different things while others go to US and do same,” Rajapaksa told a public gathering on Monday in the hill country resort of Nuwara Eliya.
Sl transfers nearly 30 prisoners to India
Colombo: Nearly 30 prisoners from India have been transferred back from Sri lanka under a bilateral agreement signed in 2010, the Indian High Commission here said on Monday.
rebels cleared from Assad home province
Damascus: President Bashar al-Assad’s troops drove rebel fighters out of his latakia home province on Monday as UN inspectors began probing the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict.
72 militants, 11 cops killed in Afghanistan
Kabul: At least 72 militants and 11 policemen were killed in a clash between the two sides in the western Afghan province of Farah Monday.
Germany: man takes hostages at city hall
Berlin: A man took several people hostage at the city hall in the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt on Monday, police said. It wasn’t clear what weapons the man might have or what he wanted, police spokesman Guenther Beck said.
Shark bites surfer’s legs off Hawaii
Hilo (Hawaii): Hawaii authorities say a shark has left a 16-year-old surfer with injuries on both legs. It’s the second shark attack in the state in less than a week.