Anugrah Kumar

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  • Palace Attack Leaves Yemeni President Wounded

    While a television news station run by the opposition claimed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had been killed in an attack during Friday prayers in his palace in Sana’a, the government said Saleh sustained minor injuries.

  • Now Bible Faces Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan

    The Bible is the latest target of Islamists in Pakistan, where Christian and other minorities routinely face blasphemy charges followed by “religious” lynching. An influential political party has asked the Islamic country’s apex court to ban the Christian holy book alleging it denigrates prophets.

  • Japan Political Chaos Hinders Nuclear Disaster Relief

    Japan Political Chaos Hinders Nuclear Disaster Relief

    Japanese government’s compensation assistance plan for tens of thousands of evacuees who left their homes after the March 11 nuclear disaster in Fukushima seems stalled with lawmakers demanding resignation of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, who they say has not handled the crisis well.

  • Joplin Tornado Final Count: 0 Missing, 134 Dead

    Joplin Tornado Final Count: 0 Missing, 134 Dead

    The Missouri Department of Public Safety announced Wednesday that all persons previously reported as unaccounted for following the May 22 Joplin tornado had either been located or confirmed deceased.

  • Political Jam Over U.S. Debt Ceiling Begins

    Political Jam Over U.S. Debt Ceiling Begins

    President Barack Obama has invited congressional Republicans to the White House for negotiations Wednesday following the defeat of a bill to raise the U.S. debt ceiling. While the House will likely raise the government’s borrowing ability sooner or later, it may not come without deep spending cuts and budget revisions.

  • Is Muammar al-Gaddafi Preparing to Quit?

    South African President Jacob Zuma’s meeting with Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripoli Monday fell short of a peace deal and a report suggested that Libya’s embattled ruler had secretly engaged attorneys to defend him at the International Criminal Court.

  • Civilians Killed as Yemen 'Strives' to Regain al-Qaida-Held Towns

    Yemeni regime’s fighter planes launched airstrikes Monday on one of the two southern cities occupied by al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula in an apparent attempt to validate President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s claim that Islamist militants’ threat following an uprising was real.

  • Muammar al-Gaddafi to Meet With So. Africa's Zuma, Peace Deal Ahead?

    Two days before he plans to meet Muammar al-Gaddafi in Tripoli, South African President Jacob Zuma has claimed that the rebels accept African Union’s peace efforts.

  • Egyptian Protesters Call for 'Second Revolution,' Hosni Mubarak Trial

    Thousands of Egyptians returned to Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday calling for a “second revolution” and demanded immediate detention and trial of former president Hosni Mubarak for the killing of hundreds of unarmed protesters during the January-February protests that led to his ouster.

  • Prejudice in India's Top Colleges Leading to Dalit Suicides

    Dalits, comprising the lowest rung of India’s highly stratified society, can hardly reach professional colleges and the few who do are often harassed by “upper caste” professors and peers