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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Afghanistan, National Government, Nawaz Sharif, Politics, Asif Ali Zardari
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Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film
In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...
Tags: Celebrities, England, Movies, Cambridge (England), United Kingdom
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Alleged revenge attack hospitalizes Pakistani inmate in India
A Pakistani prisoner in a Kashmir jail was attacked and suffered serious head injuries Friday morning, one day after outrage erupted in India over the death of an Indian prisoner in Pakistan. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said the attack was “...
Tags: Prisons, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan
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Death of jailed Indian in Pakistan causes furor
The death of an Indian prisoner attacked behind bars in Pakistan set off an uproar Thursday, as protests erupted and the Indian government demanded justice in the politically sensitive case. Sarabjit Singh had spent more than two decades in Pakistani...
Tags: National Government, Politics, Human Rights, Justice and Rights, Government
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Owner of collapsed building in Bangladesh is arrested
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.NEW DELHI, India –- The owner of a collapsed building in Bangladesh was arrested Sunday near the Indian border as the death toll rose to at least 370 in the nation’s worst garment industry disaster. With more than 800 people still missing...Tags: Sheikh Hasina, National Government, Politics, Government, Police Arrests
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Projects Abroad gives teens a chance to lend a hand
From childcare to medical internships, Projects Abroad offers high school students an opportunity to travel and help nurture a community in another country. This year about 1,000 students from around the world will volunteer through Projects Abroad's...
Tags: High Schools, Ghana, Travel, Argentina, Schools
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Rape of 5-year-old ignites furious protest in India
NEW DELHI — Several hundred people protesting the rape and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl descended on police headquarters Saturday, waving signs, overrunning barriers and calling for the resignation of the capital city's police commissioner. The...
Tags: Politics, New Delhi (India), Kidnapping, Health and Medical Professionals, Crime, Law and Justice
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Blast in India's high-tech capital, Bangalore, wounds 16
NEW DELHI, India -- An explosion Wednesday near the office of a political party in the high-tech capital of Bangalore wounded 16 people, including eight police officers, officials said. Early evidence suggests that a low-intensity bomb of the type often...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Politics, New Delhi (India), Bombings
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Residential building collapses in Mumbai area, killing 62
MUMBAI, India — A residential building being constructed illegally on forest land in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing 62 people and injuring 70, authorities said Friday. The eight-story...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Mumbai (India)
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Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs
The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...
Tags: Trade Agreements, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Contracts, Drugs and Medicines, Economic Organization
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India passes rape law that sets age of consent at 18
REWARI, India -- India passed anti-rape legislation Thursday that included a controversial provision setting the age of sexual consent at 18. Reformers argued the law, which was passed in a hurried response to public anger over the fatal mid-December...
Tags: Physical Therapy, Rape, Sex Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment
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An insider's view of generic-drug pricing
Bob Toomajian worked for 16 years as Kaiser Permanente's drug purchasing manager for Southern California, giving him an insider's knowledge of how medications are priced before reaching consumers. When it comes to patented name-brand drugs, he told me,...
Tags: CVS Corp., Drugs and Medicines, Lipitor (drug), Prescription Drugs, Federal Trade Commission
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