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Sunday, July 19, 2009, NEW DELHI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said that strategic partnership is required between India and US on issues like climate change. Addressing a joint press conference, Hillary Clinton said that she expects Pakistan to take strong action against terrorism. After winning over Mumbai with her charm, Clinton arrived in New Delhi on Sunday afternoon for talks with Indian government leaders to launch what she called a third phase in the India-US strategic partnership. She was received at the airport by India's Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar and Gayatri Kumar, joint secretary in charge of the Americas in the external affairs ministry. A slew of agreements, including pacts on an end-use monitoring agreement that will spur high-end arms sales between them and another pact on space launches, are expected to be signed on Monday. India is also likely to announce two sites for US nuclear reactors during Clinton's visit. Soon after her arriv...

Sunday, July 19, 2009, KABUL: A civilian helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Sunday, the U.S. military said, and a Russian news agency reported 15 people killed. U.S. military spokeswoman Lieutenant Commander Christine Sidenstricker gave no other details. A Russian news agency reported that 15 people had been killed in the crash of a Russian-built Mi-8 helicopter at Kandahar's main air base.

Sunday, July 19, 2009, NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania's coup leader Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz took a commanding lead in the presidential election winning 52.2 percent of votes with more than half the ballots counted, the electoral commission said Sunday. According to the partial results released with 61.17 percent of ballots counted, the nearest challenger was parliamentary speaker Messaoud Ould Boulkheir, the anti-coup front candidate, with 16.63 percent of votes. In third place was the head of the main opposition party, Ahmed Ould Daddah, with 13.89 percent of votes. Out of a field of nine candidates for president, the moderate Islamist Jemil Ould Mansour has garnered 4.66 percent of the vote and the former junta chief in 2005-2007, colonel Elu Ould Mohamed Vall, 3.78 percent. The electoral commission said voter turnout was at 61 percent. If the tendency is confirmed, the leader of last August's coup, who ceded control as head of the junta in April and resigned from the army to conte...

Sunday, July 19, 2009, MUMBAI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday said there had to be “justice” for the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, even as she noted that India’s contribution towards the fight against extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be “very helpful”. “I believe that there has to be justice. There has to be a full vetting, thorough analysis of what happened, who was behind it - just as it would be with any terrorist attack,” Clinton said in an interview. Clinton who is on a five-day visit to India, arrived in Mumbai Friday night. After a day -and-a-half of appointments in India’s commercial capital, the highest ranking official of the Barack Obama administration to have visited this country will reach New Delhi Sunday. Clinton said that there had been an “evolving attitude” in Pakistan in the last six months, with both the government and society understanding the dangers of fighting terror groups. She said the Pakistan Army’s efforts against terror groups in ...

Sunday, July 19, 2009, KARACHI: At least 33 people were killed and over 70 injured in various accidents and mishaps as a result of the unprecedented catastrophic downpours in Karachi. The bridges near Hawks Bay and Airport washed away in heavy showers. According to police and hospital sources, the first monsoonal showers triggered various accidents in which at least 33 people were killed and over 70 injured owing to collapses of rooftops and walls, electrocution and drowning. Two brothers—Salman and Usman—lost their lives as the wall of their house collapsed in Musa Colony. Two brothers died in collapse of rear wall of Rangers headquarters in Mujahid Colony. Meantime, the bodies of Majid 19 and Abid 17 have been recovered from Qayyumabad nullah. Zaman s/o Sher Afzal was electrocuted in Mehmoodabad-8. A woman passed away owing to suffocation; while, four people lost consciousness. A man was electrocuted in Lines Area. A child drowned in stream of Machchar Colony. A portion from sixth s...