India follows Pakistan with missile test
India test-fired its second-longest-range missile
on Wednesday, a defence official said, two days after Pakistan
announced its own missile test. The two-stage Agni-IV blasted off
from the eastern state of Orissa in the third test for the missile,
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Russia pulls plug on USAID programmes
Russia has booted the US aid agency out of the
country, closing down its decades-old support for pro-democracy and
rights projects, US officials said Tuesday, in a new sign of tense
ties with Moscow. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the US
Agency for International Development (USAID) has spent $2.7 billion,
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Syria turns into kidnappers’ paradise
LEBANON: Every time violence intensifies in
Syria, so do abductions of civilians, for political reasons and more
often for financial gain, activists and families of hostages say.
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