KABUL: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Afghanistan on Monday for talks with President Hamid Karzai on a new strategy to fight the "crucible of terrorism" in the border district with Pakistan. Brown said the new approach, due to be officially unveiled Wednesday, would treat Afghanistan and Pakistan together as "different but complimentary".He visited British troops at Camp Bastion in the southern province of Helmand, and the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, before meeting the head of the Western-backed Afghan government in Kabul, said foreign news agency.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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