• AI Accuses US, Allies for Prisoners Abuse
  An Amnesty International (AI) report accused the United States and its allies occupying Iraq of mistreating prisoners saying, “from the outset the occupying forces attached insufficient weight to human rights considerations.”<More>

• Bomb Blasts in Holy City
  Suspected Islamic terrorists set off a series of bombs in the ancient Hindu holy city Varnasi killing 20 and wounding scores of people.<More>

• India, Australia Aim to Enhance Ties
  The Australian Prime Minister John Howard is visiting India to enhance its economic and technological ties. From India’s standpoint, on top of the list is import of nuclear fuel from Australia, which holds about 40% of the world’s uranium in its Olympic mines in the South.<More>

• India-Australia Signs Trade & Economic Framework
  India and Australia are to sign a new Trade and Economic Framework that will facilitate a more balanced and comprehensive development of bilateral trade between the two countries.<More>

• WHO Declares Diabetes a Pandemic
  Experts attending the Diabetes Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam said that it was high time that the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic.<More>

• YSR Ineffective in Naxal Fight
  After killing scores of anti-Naxal tribal civilians, hundreds of armed Maoist terrorists in Andhra Pradesh blew up a bus, attacked a village killing 8 people, injuring 20, and taking 15 people hostage.<More>

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