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Pranab Mukherjee India's first Bengali President | | Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 10 in Beijing | | Norway tries to put pain of Breivik behind year on | | Syrian President Assad faces 'fight or flight' decision : U.S. official | | London arrival for Olympic flame
   
Pranab India's first Bengali President


Delhi, July 22 : Pranab Mukherjee is the first-ever Bengali to become President of India, after winning the presidential elections by a landslide margin. Of the 733 valid votes of MPs counted, Mukherjee had got 527 with a value of 373,116 and his only rival PA Sangma bagged 206 votes with a value of 145,848, according to NDTV. The official result was announced on the website of Press Trust of India (PTI). The ruling Congress party named Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee as its nominee for President .....Details
Syria conflict: Rebels seize Turkey, Iraq border posts
Mail News : Syrian rebels have captured a number of positions on the country's borders with Turkey and Iraq. A senior Iraqi official said all the crossings on Syria's eastern frontier had been seized. At one point, two Turkish posts were also in rebel hands. The push came a day after a bomb claimed the lives of three senior defence officials in Damascus. At the UN, negotiations are under.....Details
5 million test tube people in world
Leana Sibalo: In-vitro fertilisation (IVF) has given the world about five million new people since the first test tube baby was born in England 34 years ago, according to an estimate released on Monday. As the initial controversy over man's scientific manipulation of nature has faded, about 350,000 babies conceived in petri dishes are now born every year, said the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)......Details
Syrian President Assad faces 'fight or flight' decision : U.S. official
The killing of three top officials by an explosion on Wednesday has left Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a decision point, a senior U.S. official told. From an intelligence point of view the regime has to decide: fight or flight, the senior official said. Another senior official from the Middle East region underscored that assessment, telling media the attacks indicate strong cracks in the regime. .....Details
Iran denies Israeli claims on Bulgaria attack
19 July : Iran's state TV is rejecting accusations of Tehran's involvement in an apparent suicide attack against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed at least eight people. On the TV website, Iran questions the claims by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and others as ridiculous and sensational. The website described the Israeli charges as attempts to discredit Iran and its allies such as Syria. There have been no official statements by Iranian authorities since the Wednesday attack in the Black Sea city of Burgas. Israeli officials and media say the death toll includes six Israelis and one Bulgarian. .....Details
London arrival for Olympic flame
London 21 July : The Olympic flame has arrived in the host city in dramatic style, being abseiled into the Tower of London from a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter at the fitting time of 20:12 BST. The Sea King took off from Guildford at the end of day 63 of the torch relay. Earlier, a 17-year-old was arrested after trying to grab the flame as the torch relay passed.....Details
Batman cinema shooting: US mourning Aurora victims
USA, 21 July : The US has begun mourning after 12 people were killed and 59 wounded in a shooting at a midnight showing of the new Batman film, the Dark Knight Rises. US President Barack Obama ordered flags flown at half mast and said the day was for prayer and reflection. A man wearing a gas mask .....Details
Rohingya: The world's most forgotten people
More than 300,000 from Myanmar live in makeshift camps along its border with Bangladesh as unregistered refugees. This is what the Bangladeshi authorities do not want you to see: 300,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in makeshift camps .....Details
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