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Over 69 percent of Americans believe that the Afghanistan war is important to their national security, with 36 percent of those saying it is very important.
Pakistan may earn $365 million annually under an agreement with the United States, following the reopening of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's supply routes for American troops in Afghanistan.
A 21-year-old American construction worker has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation following an undercover sting operation when he tried to detonate what he thought was a car bomb at a military recruiting station in Maryland.
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Several proposed Islamic centres, including one near Ground Zero, have touched off a heated nationwide debate that raises questions about the state of religious tolerance in post-9/11 America.
The conviction of Pakistani national Ajmal Kasab by a Mumbai court in 26/11 terror attack case has been widely carried in the US media on Tuesday, the day on which it was itself grappling with trying to find out who was behind the failed Times Square car bombing.
Mahinda Rajapaksa's re-election as Sri Lankan president has come as a disappointment for the Tamil diaspora, which is still reeling from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels' defeat in the country's civil war last year. The influential community of Tamils living overseas now doesn't know about what role it should play in their homeland, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
The Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other Pakistani terror groups having links with the Al Qaeda may pose a danger to the United States with their ability to trigger a major crisis for nuclear-armed Pakistan, including a war with India, which may require US intervention.
The successes of Clinton's trip have helped to expand the President's vision for a multi-polar world, says the Christian Science Monitor.
And while this extremist-linked press spins on relatively unmolested, the country's secular television stations and newspapers face consistent harassment by the government,
China and India, the most populous nations, lifted more from slum conditions than any other countries, says a United Nations report which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
Experts and observers of India-China ties have warned that the current war of words between the two countries could spin the traditional Asian rivalry out of control. "The most urgent present job for both sides is crisis management," the Christian Science Monitor quoted Han Hua, an expert on South Asia at Peking University, as saying. "I don't think either government wants the situation to go further downhill," he added.He said, "The structural problem is leadership."
Indian officials say Kashmiri militant groups may soon have enough funds from narcotics to operate independently of their former patron, Pakistan.
This is what Michael Evanoff, the Regional Security Officer in the US embassy in Islamabad, told the Christian Science Monitor.
With the global price of crude oil hovering above $55 per barrel, the demand for a wide array of alternative energy sources - from wind turbines to corn oil used in cars - has gone up in the United States.
Indian-American Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has for the first time acknowledged that he is considering a 2016 presidential run and will make a decision on it after the November Congressional polls.
The United States has said it has no problem with India's engagement with Russia, but cautioned that it was not the right time to have trade deals with Moscow because of a series of international sanctions against it.
The two cities finally got their act together by ramping up the testing capacity and implementing stricter quarantine norms.
The aircraft has to fly through five consecutive days.
'Mucor is an environmental fungus, and it's much more prevalent in hot and humid areas.' 'The amount of fungus in the air is much higher in India than some other parts of the world.'
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