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Paris, May 2: Nicolas Sarkozy staged a huge election rally on Tuesday to rival France's traditional May Day show of force by the left, as Marine Le Pen scornfully rejected his bid to woo her far-right supporters. Five days before Sarkozy was to face Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande in the second-round run-off of the French presidential election, he addressed a cheering crowd in Paris in

Washington, May 2: U.S. President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai signed a landmark strategic partnership agreement in Kabul laying out American support for the war-torn nation for a decade after 2014 when NATO forces conclude their combat role. The ten-page long-term strategic partnership agreement pledges U.S. support for Afghanistan for a decade after 2014, when NATO forces

Vienna, May 1: Libya's former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has been found floating dead in the River Danube in Austria, police said on Sunday. Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last year several months after opponents of Muammar Gadhafi had risen up against the Libyan leader and begun a rebellion. As NOC chairman since

Tehran, April 30: Washington has fabricated the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan to relieve political pressure on US President Barack Obama, Press TV reports. James Fetzer, American Philosopher and former Marine Corps officer, says Washington fabricated the bin Laden raid to divert public attention from “Obama not having closed Guantanamo, having stationed troops in Pakistan and

Miami, April 30: Controversial US pastor Terry Jones has burned more copies of the Quran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed to protest the imprisonment in Iran of a Christian clergyman, The Gainesville Sun reported. The newspaper said Jones and another pastor, who carried out their protest in front of their church in Gainesville, Florida yesterday, demanded the release of Christian pastor

London, April 30: A former girlfriend of British Prime Minister David Cameron, who met her as a Conservative Party worker in the 1990s, left politics and worked in advertising but took to drinking and addiction before finally becoming a nun in the US. According to the Daily Mail, 44-year-old Laura Adshead was a student at the Cheltenham Ladies' College. She went to Oxford, where she met Cameron

Paris, April 30: The French presidential race entered the home straight on Sunday with both incumbent right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande battling to shake off the taint of scandal. Sarkozy accused Hollande supporters in the media of mounting a "despicable" smear against him by publishing a document purporting to show Muammar Gaddafi's former Libyan regime

Paris, April 28: Muammar Gaddafi's regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, a news website reported Saturday, publishing what it said was documentary evidence. The 2006 document in Arabic, which website Mediapart said was signed by Gaddafi's foreign intelligence chief Mussa Kussa, referred to an "agreement in principle to

Washington/North Charleston, April 28: The first of four Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft for Air India to be assembled in South Carolina, a state governed by Indian American Nikki Haley, has rolled out of final assembly with great fanfare. Haley and US Representative Lindsey Graham joined a crowd of nearly 7,000 Boeing employees and guests at the festive rollout ceremony in North Charleston Friday

Sydney, April 27: Fast food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) was on Friday ordered to pay Aus$8 million (US$8.3 million) to an Australian girl who suffered severe brain damage and was paralysed after eating a Twister wrap. Monika Samaan was seven when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock -- in