NDA wants vote on FDI in retail in House

NEW DELHI: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance on Tuesday decided to focus on moving a motion in Parliament under a voting provision to oppose FDI in multi-brand retail, leaving Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee isolated over her no-trust vote proposal.Banerjee was on the brink of a major embarrassment as NDA joined the Left in formally indicating that it finds opposing the government...

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Hopes Rise for Gaza Ceasefire

Hopes for a ceasefire between between Israel and Islamic militants in Gaza rose today as Hamas declared that a ceasefire would be announced and Israel indicated that a deal was possible.Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told ABC News the news would be announced at a press conference in Cairo where Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has been trying to broker an end to the fighting.An...

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Cuba's Oil Quest to Continue, Despite Deepwater Disappointment

An unusual high-tech oil-drilling rig that's been at work off the coast of Cuba departed last week, headed for either Africa or Brazil. With it went the island nation's best hope, at least in the short term, for reaping a share of the energy treasure beneath the sea that separates it from its longtime ideological foe.For many Floridians, especially in the Cuban-American community, it was...

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US stocks surge on fiscal cliff hopes, housing data

NEW YORK: US stocks surged Monday on upbeat housing data and hopes that politicians will find a way to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts in January.The jump was underpinned by Apple, the most valuable public company, which took a 7.2 per cent bounce to $565.73, following weeks of losses.The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a hefty 207.65 points...

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Ensure justice to Sikhs: Parkash Singh Badal to Manmohan Singh

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Monday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to direct the Delhi government to get the process of DSGMC polls completed by December-end this year, the deadline fixed by the Supreme Court. "I have already taken up the matter of DSGMC polls with the PM and hope he will ensure justice to Sikhs," he said. Badal asked the PM to direct the Delhi...

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Israeli Airstrike Kills Top Islamic Jihad Commander

An Israeli strike on a Gaza City high-rise today has killed one of the top militant leaders of Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian militant group said.The second strike in two days on the downtown Gaza City building that houses the Hamas TV station, Al Aqsa, has killed Ramez Harb, who is a leading figure in Al Quds Brigades militant wing, according to a text message Islamic Jihad...

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Lonesome George Not the Last of His Kind, After All?

The tide may be turning for the rare species of giant tortoise thought to have gone extinct when its last known member, the beloved Lonesome George, died in June.A new study by Yale University researchers reveals that DNA from George's ancestors lives on—and that more of his kind may still be alive in a remote area of Ecuador's Galápagos Islands. This isn't the first time Chelonoidis abingdoni...

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Future for Republicans is not so bad

It’s not a good time to be a Republican. The circular firing squad — it was Mitt Romney’s fault! Demographics did it! Conservatives messed everything up! — has begun in earnest even though the 2012 election is less than two weeks gone. Regardless of who you choose to blame — we lean toward demographics and a turnout operation that is a pale imitation of what Democrats have put in place...

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Gaza's death toll rises in Israeli air raids

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: New Israeli air raids killed three people in Gaza City on Sunday, taking the death toll to 26 on the bloodiest day of Israel's bombing campaign, Hamas said.Two of the deaths came in an air strike that targeted a motorbike in the Gaza City neighbourhood of Tal al-Hawa."Two Palestinians were killed in an air strike on the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood," Hamas...

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Officials: Israeli Strike Kills 11 Civilians in Gaza

An Israeli missile flattened a two-story house in a residential neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least 11 civilians, mostly women and children, Palestinian medical officials said, as Israel expanded a military offensive to target homes of wanted militants.The attack, which Israel said targeted a militant, was the single deadliest incident of the five-day-old Israeli...

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