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The United States on Wednesday formally added the Pakistani Taliban to its list of foreign terrorist organizations, imposing financial and travel sanctions on the group which claimed responsibility for the failed bomb plot in New York’s Times Square. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, or Taliban Movement of Pakistan, met the criteria to be included on the list, which bars any material support to and freezes the financial assets of groups deemed involved in terrorism. The TTP is the main Pakistani militant alliance which operates from Pakistan’s northwest

BEIJING: Rescuers armed with little more than shovels searched on Monday for hundreds of people after a torrent of mud engulfed a northwestern Chinese town, tearing down homes, filling the streets with sludge and killing at least 127. Nearly 1,300 people were missing after heavy rains and landslides created a torrent of mud and floodwaters that buried at least 300 low-rise homes and gouged chunks out of multi-storey concrete homes in Zhouqu County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu province

As many as 17 people were confirmed dead and 44 others went missing after torrential rains triggered landslides in southwest China on Tuesday. In Yunnan province, four people were killed and 42 others went missing when a mountainside came crashing down on a local township in the city of Zhaotong, a local official told foreign news agency. ‘The township is located in a river valley surrounded by mountains, people were buried in their homes’, said the official from Qiaojia county, who asked not to be named

A man who may have been upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into a small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building, authorities said. At least two people were injured and a third was unaccounted for. The crash caused a fire and sent black smoke billowing from the seven-story Echelon Building.

A man who may have been upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into a small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building, authorities said.

UN: Iran’s president has launched a scathing attack on Western powers, accusing them of spreading “war, bloodshed and terror” in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran was prepared to warmly shake all those hands which are honestly extended to us

MOSUL: Fifteen Iraqi soldiers were killed accidentally during what were meant to be controlled explosions in a town outside the northern city of Mosul on Friday, a defence ministry official said. Among the dead was one army officer, while one soldier was also seriously wounded, said the official, who declined to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media. The accident occurred on the outskirts of Baashiqa, around 30 kilometres (18 miles) northeast of Mosul

India test nuclear-capable missil e, BHUBANESWAR: India carried out its first nighttime test of a medium-range missile on Monday, a defense ministry official said. The surface-to-surface ‘Agni-II’ (Fire) missile — with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers — can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads weighing up to 1,000 kilograms, the official said on condition of anonymity in line with ministry rules. The missile was fired from Wheelers Island in the eastern state of Orissa, the official said

Full Story And Original Content.Thnewspk.comOprah’s Talk Show In September 2011:LOS ANGELES – Oprah Winfrey, one of the most influential and highly paid women on television, will announce on Friday she is ending her popular daytime talk show in 2011. Winfrey’s production company, Harpo Inc, said on Thursday she would make the official announcement on Friday’s