Aug
29
Russia says the U.S is provoking the conflict in Georgia for domestic election purposes.
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In an interview with CNN, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the U.S citizens were in the area during the conflict over south Ossetia and were taking direct orders from their leaders. At the United Nations, Russia and Georgia traded harsh words during an open Security Council meeting.The council also refused to approve a request from representatives of two Georgian breakaway regions, which Russia has recognized as independent states, to address the council.Speaking in Washington, white house spokesperson said the U.S may scrap a civil nuclear pact with Moscow and consider sanctions as punishment for its military action in Georgia.She said the U.S is consulting in its international partners, such as France, Germany and all the other NATO countries in this connection. In Tbilisi, the Georgian parliament approved a resolution calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia. It called on the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili to declare Russian military forces in Georgia illegal and occupying forces.
Aug
29
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani says a strategy is being evolved to improve health care system in the country.
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Addressing a function organized by Pakistan pharmaceutical manufacturers association in Lahore he emphasized to focus on local raw material to provide drugs to the people on affordable rates. The Prime Minister stressed the need for taking steps to fight hepatitis as eighteen percent population of the country is suffering from this disease.
Aug
27
The U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice says Israel’s settlement building in the West Bank is not conducive to creating an environment for negotiations.
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Rice reiterated the U.S. position in separate talks with Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. She said anything that undermines confidence between the parties ought to be avoided. Rice also discussed with Abbas for the first time new ideas that could move peace talks forward. Her visit coincided with the release of a report by an Israeli watchdog group saying construction of housing for Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank had nearly doubled since last year.
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Aug
22
A meeting of the central executive committee of Pakistan Peoples Party is being held in Islamabad at 4 pm today.
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PPP co-chairman senator Asif Ali Zardari will preside over the meeting. Matters relating to the ruling coalition and political situation are expected to come under discussion.
Aug
22
The U.N. is still divided on permanent truce between Russia and Georgia.
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Russia has put forward a draft resolution to counter the French draft that called for an immediate Russian troops withdrawal and reaffirmation of Georgia’s territorial integrity. There are conflicting reports about the Russian withdrawal from Georgia as provided by French-broker ceasefire. Speaking in Gori, chairman organization for security and cooperation in Europe, Alexander Stubb said there is no sign of Russian troop withdrawal from Gori. Russian general Vyacheslav Borisov said in Gori that a planned withdrawal continues and checkpoints are being removed today. A top Russian general said the withdrawal may take ten days.
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Aug
18
The federal government is to provide one hundred lion rupees besides fifty trucks loaded withre lief goods for internally displaced people of Bajaur Agency.
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Meanwhile, the NWFP government has established sixteen camps in different parts for internally displaced people of Bajaur Agency. According to Fata secretariat nearly two hundred forty-eight thousand people have been displaced due to ongoing operation against the miscreants in Bajaur agency so far. Nearly sixty thousand displaced people have been accommodated in these camps.
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Aug
9
The text of impeachment resolution of the president is being sent to the provincial assemblies today.
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This was stated by the federal information and broadcasting minister Sherry Rehman while talking to newsmen in Islamabad. She said that a summary has been sent to the president for convening the national assembly session at 5 p.m. on Monday, the 11th of this month. The information minister said that a joint parliamentary party meeting of the coalition parties would be held prior to the session.
She claimed that eighteen members of PML-Q and other parties have contacted them and they want to join Pakistan Peoples Party.
Aug
8
The ruling coalition’s coordination committee set up to discuss matters regarding president’s impeachment is meeting in Islamabad.
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PPP co-chairman senator Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N President Shahbaz Sharif are also attending the meeting. The committee is discussing matters related to the convening of provincial assemblies sessions and president’s impeachment.
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Aug
7
Operation against extremists is continued in kabal Matta and adjacent areas in Swat
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In Tehsil Matta extremists have attacked a police station. Due to retaliation of security forces extremists took a flee. Extremists have also set ablaze a building of the girls college.
In Thasil Kabal the extremists have killed a person on charges of spying. Sopurce
Aug
6
SEOUL (Reuters) - The loss of Booger the pit bull terrier was almost more than Bernann McKinney could bear.
Now she is happy, minus $50,000 and her house, and owner of five cloned Booger puppies.
“It is a miracle for me because I was able to smile again, laugh again and just feel alive again,” McKinney told a news conference in the South Korea capital to show off the week-old black puppies — all of whose names include the word Booger.
They are the work of the biotech firm RNL Bio, affiliated with the South Korean lab which produced the world’s first cloned dog and is staffed with former associates of disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk.
She sold her house in the United States to raise the $50,000 for RNL scientists to turn skin cells taken from Booger before he died two years ago into embryos carried by two surrogate dogs for two months until giving birth to the puppies last week.
“I had to make sacrifices and I dream of the day, some day when everyone can afford to clone their pet because losing a pet is a terrible, terrible loss to anyone.”
After rescuing him from a shelter 12 years ago, Booger had become an indispensable part of her life, said the 57-year-old Californian.
The lab said it hoped to make its technology more commercial along with its program to clone sniffer dogs for the Korean customs service.
“As of today, we are at the stage of receiving orders from anywhere in the world,” RNL CEO Ra Jeongchan said.
RNL has said it expected to clone about 100 dogs next year and for the price to drop as technology improves.
Hwang has been on trial for more than two years on charges of breaking the law on research ethics and for misusing state funds and private donations.
RNL’s research staff is made up of scientists who stayed behind when Hwang left the prestigious Seoul National University after his research results were found to be fraudulent.
Dogs are considered one of the more difficult mammals to clone because their reproductive cycle includes difficult-to-predict ovulations.
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Jonathan Thatcher and David Fox)
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