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• Price hike in Matiari town
• US Begins Destroying Syrian Chemical Weapons
• Egypt’s Sissi: Extremists Destroying Region, Threaten World
• Iraq Parliament Deadlocked, Postpones Next Session
• Lebanon Reportedly Charges 28 with Planning Suicide Attacks
• White House: Most Children at Border to Be Sent Home
• Google Rates Internet Service Providers’ Video Streaming Quality
• More Americans Turning 100 Than Ever Before
• Vietnam Association Demands Release of Boat, Crew from China
• Myanmar Arrests Hundreds After Mandalay Violence
• Observers: US Faces Choices at China Dialogue
• Two Koreas, Russia Consider Building Railway Training Center
• Initial Results Show Ghani Ahead in Afghan Election
• 3 Suspects Confess to Killing Palestinian Teen
• Kenya Opposition Rallies for Political Change, Dialogue
• Iraq Parliament Deadlocked, Postpones Next Session
• More Than 60 Kidnapped Women Escape in Nigeria
• Bridges to Donetsk Destroyed as Ukraine Battles Separatists
• US Says It Will Help Resolve German Spy Allegation
• Now, drinkable `nanojuice` to help in gut inspection

Price hike in Matiari town Posted: 08 Jul 2014 03:33 AM PDT Matiari, Sindh, Rising prices of daily-use commodities has baffled consumers; however, the government authorities are least concerned to stabilize the rates even in holy month of Ramazan. Prices of vegetables, fruits, meat, fresh milk and cereals are touching sky and poor and low income people are finding it difficult to run their kitchen. The government […]

US Begins Destroying Syrian Chemical Weapons Posted: 07 Jul 2014 06:04 PM PDT An American naval crew has begun destroying Syrian chemical weapons on board a U.S. container ship in the Mediterranean. The Pentagon says it will take about two months to destroy the 600 metric tons of chemical agents, which include mustard gas and the raw materials for sarin nerve gas. The ship Cape Ray is equipped […]

Egypt’s Sissi: Extremists Destroying Region, Threaten World Posted: 07 Jul 2014 06:03 PM PDT CAIRO —Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi warned world powers on Monday that Islamist militants are ravaging the Middle East and pose a threat to everyone’s security. “Be alert to what is happening in the region … This region is being destroyed right now and we should not let this happen,” Sissi said in a televised […]

Iraq Parliament Deadlocked, Postpones Next Session Posted: 07 Jul 2014 06:03 PM PDT Iraq’s deadlocked parliament has postponed its next session until mid-August, unable to decide how to split political power even as Baghdad faces a militant Islamic insurgency that has edged close to the capital. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Western leaders last month a new government would be formed early in July. But Monday, parliament […]

Lebanon Reportedly Charges 28 with Planning Suicide Attacks Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:58 PM PDT BEIRUT —A Lebanese public prosecutor has charged 28 people with planning to carry out suicide bomb attacks and belonging to the militant group Islamic State, Lebanon’s state news agency said on Monday. The move comes after three bombings in Lebanon late last month and a security crackdown in the capital Beirut and other parts of […]

White House: Most Children at Border to Be Sent Home Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:56 PM PDT WASHINGTON —The White House said on Monday that most unaccompanied minors flooding into the United States from Central America will not be allowed to stay as the Obama administration prepares to ask Congress for $2 billion to address the border crisis. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said most of the border-crossers would not qualify to […]

Google Rates Internet Service Providers’ Video Streaming Quality Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:55 PM PDT WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is rating Internet service providers’ video streaming quality on a new website, the latest development in the fight between broadband providers and content companies over who is to blame for slow streaming speeds. A link to the website appears when videos on Google’s streaming service, YouTube, are slow to buffer. The […]

More Americans Turning 100 Than Ever Before Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:54 PM PDT An Arkansas woman who just celebrated her 116th birthday isn’t as unusual as some might think. Gertrude Weaver — officially the oldest living American and second-oldest person in the world — belongs to a fast-growing segment of the U.S. population: people who are 100 years old or older. There are about 53,000 centenarians in the […]

Vietnam Association Demands Release of Boat, Crew from China Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:50 PM PDT A Vietnamese fishing association is demanding the release of a ship and crew taken into custody by Chinese authorities in the South China Sea last week. According to the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, six Vietnamese fishermen were detained July 3 off China’s Hainan Island. But the deputy head of Vietnam’s Fisheries Association, Vo Van Trac, […]

Myanmar Arrests Hundreds After Mandalay Violence Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:49 PM PDT YANGON — Authorities in Myanmar, also known as Burma, say they have arrested at least 362 people following deadly sectarian violence in Mandalay that killed two people and injured more than a dozen last week. Police in the central city Monday said most were taken into custody for violating a curfew order that was put […]

Observers: US Faces Choices at China Dialogue Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:48 PM PDT Top officials from the United States and China are likely to focus on areas in which the two countries cooperate at the sixth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue this week. But, there are few expectations the meeting will bring substantial change to the relationship between the two governments. U.S. Secretary of State […]

Two Koreas, Russia Consider Building Railway Training Center Posted: 07 Jul 2014 05:48 PM PDT South Korea's national railroad operator, Korail, says it has suggested setting up a tri-national training center that would include North Korea and Russia. In a phone interview with the VOA Korean service Monday, Korail spokeswoman Im In-sook said company President Choi Yeon-hye suggested establishing such an agency during her visit to North Korea in April. […]

Initial Results Show Ghani Ahead in Afghan Election Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:29 PM PDT ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Preliminary results from last month’s (June 14) Afghan presidential runoff vote indicate former finance minister Ashraf Ghani is well ahead of his rival candidate Abdullah Abdullah, who topped the first round of voting. The results were supposed to be announced last week but recounts at nearly 2,000 polling stations where fraud was […]

3 Suspects Confess to Killing Palestinian Teen Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:27 PM PDT Israeli investigators say three of the six Jewish suspects accused of killing a Palestinian teenager have confessed to the crime and re-enacted it for authorities. The breakthrough Monday in the investigation of last week’s burning death of 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir came as Israeli officials attempted to quell the uproar over the killing. The murder […]

Kenya Opposition Rallies for Political Change, Dialogue Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT NAIROBI — Kenya’s opposition parties called for a national dialogue with the ruling administration and issued a list of key demands at a rally Monday in the capital. The event turned momentarily violent as police fired tear gas to quell rowdy protesters. A heavy deployment of security forces from the army, police and national youth […]

Iraq Parliament Deadlocked, Postpones Next Session Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:25 PM PDT Iraq’s deadlocked parliament has postponed its next session until mid-August, unable to decide how to split political power even as Baghdad faces a militant Islamic insurgency that has edged close to the capital. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Western leaders last month a new government would be formed early in July. But Monday, parliament […]

More Than 60 Kidnapped Women Escape in Nigeria Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:24 PM PDT ABUJA — Authorities in Nigeria say more than 60 women kidnapped in mid-June escaped during the weekend from their presumed Boko Haram captors. But hundreds of other girls kidnapped in April remain missing. Women and girls were kidnapped when Boko Haram attacked the village of Kummabza in northern Borno state. The escape of the kidnapped […]

Bridges to Donetsk Destroyed as Ukraine Battles Separatists Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT Three bridges into rebel-held Donetsk were destroyed Monday, as Ukrainian forces continue to fight pro-Russian separatists in the eastern part of the country The bridges are access points from Slovyansk, which Ukrainian troops reclaimed from rebels Saturday. A Reuters video shows a freight train stretched over what used to be a railway, now collapsed into […]

US Says It Will Help Resolve German Spy Allegation Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:23 PM PDT The United States says it will work with Germany to resolve concerns over whether one of its intelligence employees was a double agent spying for Washington, but is declining to say whether the allegation is true. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the U.S. relationship with Berlin is broad and important, but that he could […]

Now, drinkable `nanojuice` to help in gut inspection Posted: 07 Jul 2014 04:14 PM PDT London,  Scientists have come up with a 'juice' made of nanoparticles which would help the doctors in examining the gut. University at Buffalo researchers are developing a new imaging technique involving nanoparticles suspended in liquid to form 'nanojuice', which, after reaching the small intestine, doctors would strike the nanoparticles with a harmless laser light, providing […]

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