Hoping to join a select group of countries with intercontinental missiles:

India to test new long-range missile this week

INDIA: India hopes this week to join a select group of countries with intercontinental missiles by holding the first test flight of a new long-range nuclear-capable rocket, officials said Monday.

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Karzai slams NATO after 18-hour Kabul attack ends

‘Intelligence failures by US-led forces allowed the militants to sneak into the city’:

AFGHANISTAN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for an investigation into the biggest coordinated Taliban attack on Kabul in 10 years of war. Karzai said on Monday that intelligence failures by US-led forces allowed the militants to sneak into the city’s most secure neighborhoods, AFP reported.

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Korean-American Kim new WB President

The World Bank chose Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim as its next chief Monday in a decision that surprised few but took beating an unprecedented challenge to the US lock on the Bank’s presidency.

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