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Cartagena (Colombia), April 20: A Secret Service agent preparing for president Obama's arrival at an international summit meeting and a single mother from Colombia who makes a living as a highpriced escort faced off in a room at the Hotel Caribe a week ago over how much he owed her for the previous night's intercourse. "I tell him, 'Baby, my cash money,' " the woman said in her first public

Islamabad, April 19: Pakistan army chief general Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday underlined the need for resolving all disputes, including Siachen , with New Delhi and said his country believes in "the doctrine of peaceful coexistence with its neighbours , especially India''. Kayani said Siachen "consumes a mammoth portion of national exchequer that must be diverted to the people of the two

Washington, April 19: The world condemnation of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to the UAE's Abu Mousa island and his provocative remarks continued to escalate on Wednesday with the United States and Arab forums joining the chorus. The US urged Iran to enter talks with the UAE over the territorial disputes as it criticised President Ahmadinejad for visiting a contested island

Islamabad, April 19: Three Pakistani Hindu women, who had married Muslim men after 'converting' to Islam, opted to live with their husbands on Wednesday following the supreme court's decision they should be free to decide what they want to do and which religion to opt for. The apex court was hearing a Pakistan Hindu Council's petition that alleged that the three - Faryal (Rinkle Kumari ), Hafsa

Lahore, April 18: Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed has moved the High Court here, asking it to stop Pakistani authorities from taking any “adverse action” against him under pressure from the U.S. and provide security to him as his life was “not safe” and any “mishap” could happen. Acting on the petition of Saeed for whom the U.S. has offered a 10 million-dollar bounty, Lahore High Court Chief

Washington/Islamabad, April 18: The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to "squeeze" the al-Qaida linked Haqqani network , as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest attacks in Kabul. Declaring "there were indications of Haqqani involvement" in the weekend attacks in the Afghan capital, secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that she had pressed

Tehran, April 17: Bolivian President Evo Morales says that Latin American countries are in rebellion against the United States after years of domination by their northern neighbor. He made the remarks on Monday in Cartagena, Colombia on the last day of the Summit of the Americas, which gathered leaders and representatives of members of the Organization of American States (OAS), which includes all

Cartagena, April 17: Malcolm X's grandson, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, says that Blacks are murdered with impunity in the United States because the system is unjust, Press TV reports. In an exclusive interview with Press TV on Monday, Shabazz commented on the murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying, “There are hundreds of Black Americans who are being murdered in the United States every year

Kabul, April 16: Heavy street fighting between militants and security forces in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul ended on Monday after 18 hours of intense gunfire, rocket attacks and explosions, police and government officials said. Battles which broke out at mid-day on Sunday gripped the capital's central districts through the night, with explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and

London, April 16: George Washington, who led the US victory over Great Britain in American Revolutionary War, has been named as the UK's greatest-ever foe, according to a survey which included India's Tipu Sultan and Rani of Jhansi. In the second place after the first American president was Irish leader Michael Collins , followed by French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, German field marshal during