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November 14, 2009

Digest of international news for the week Nov 7- Nov 13

Saturday
Houston: US military psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, responsible for a horrific shooting spree that left 13 dead, is in coma and transferred from a civilian to an army hospital for security reasons.
St Andrews: Differences over exiting economic stimuli, reforming banking system and fighting climate change are threatening to derail efforts of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his G-20 counterparts as they met here to pursue an agenda of sustainable economic growth.
Sunday
Islamabad: A suicide bomber strikes a crowded market on the outskirts of Peshawar killing at least 11 persons, including an anti-Taliban Mayor believed to be the target of the attack, and injuring 36, nearly two weeks after a massive car bombing in the northwestern Pakistani city leaves 118 people dead.
London: Amid China's claims over parts of Arunachal Pradesh, India says differences between New Delhi and Beijing over border issues can be resolved through dialogue.
Monday
Washington: Acknowledging that there is "an ingress of the ISI in every terrorist group", former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has alleged Afghanistan is under influence of Indian intelligence agencies and he has documentary evidence against it.
Melbourne: In yet another attack on Indian students here, a 22-year-old youth was punched on his face by a group of Australians, who also told the victim that "in this place there is no home for you".
Tuesday
Washington: A team of Indian intelligence officials leave the US disappointed after a week-long stay here as they could not question American national David Coleman Headley, arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at the behest of Pakistan-based LeT.
Beijing/New Delhi: Angry China says it was "strongly dissatisfied" with the Dalai Lama being allowed to visit "disputed" Arunachal Pradesh but India refused to join issue with it and hoped the "rhetoric" will end with the culmination of the Tibetan leader's trip.
Wednesday
Washington: A Chicago court has given 60 days deadline to FBI to complete its investigations and file an indictment into the foiled terror plot in India and Denmark by Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist group.
Kathmandu: A Nepalese woman minister sparked off a public outrage by slapping the senior district officer five times on the face, because he provided her an old car for her official visit to southern districts.
Thursday
Lahore: Pakistan's PPP-led government is considering a proposal to seek Interpol's red corner notice against ex-military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a bid to bring him back from abroad to face treason charges, days after he called party chief and President Asif Ali Zardari "a criminal and a fraud".
Kathmandu: Nepal's Maoists have put up a huge show of strength as tens of thousands of their supporters laid a siege to government secretariat here demanding an end to CPN-UML's rule, leading to clashes with police which left 50 people, including MPs and an ex-deputy premier, injured.
Friday
New York/Houston: US federal authorities were in the process of seizing four mosques and a 36-storey skyscraper in Manhattan that are owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation long suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
Houston: US Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan, accused of killing fellow soldiers at a military base, is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and may face death penalty if convicted, even as President Barack Obama ordered review of intelligence related to the incident.

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