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Karzai dismisses intel chief

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed the national intelligence chief Wednesday,and lawmakers said he will submit nominees to replace defence and interior ministers removed earlier this month by parliament.

Militants attack Pak post,kill 8 troops

ISLAMABAD: Taliban militants attacked a Pakistani army post in South Waziristan killing eight soldiers.

Americans shot in Mexico were CIA

MEXICO CITY: The two Americans who were wounded when gunmen fired on a US Embassy vehicle last week were CIA employees sent as part of a multiagency effort to bolster Mexican efforts to fight drug traffickers,officials said on Tuesday.

‘WWII bomb at Schiphol airport’

AMSTERDAM: Part of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport was evacuated Wednesday after workers unearthed a suspected World War II bomb. The scare at Schiphol came a day after a World War II bomb was detonated in the German city of

Munich,sparking fires in several nearby buildings.

Haley takes a dig at Obama

WASHINGTON: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Wednesday took a dig at US President Barack Obama for suggesting business owners can’t claim credit for their success. “I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers,my sister and me every single day how blessed we were to live in this country. They loved the fact that only in America we could be as successful as we wanted,” Haley said. Obama recently said,“If you have got a business,you did not built that”.

‘India a key partner of US’

WASHINGTON: Terming India a geopolitical ally of the US,the Republican party called for strengthening the working relationship between the two countries. The declaration came as Ranjit Ricky Gill,a 25-year-old Republican party leader of Indian origin,grabbed attention with an impressive speech over a range of policy issues during party’s convention.

Isaac lashes new orleans

Hurricane Isaac lashed New Orleans as it approached the city Wednesday,exactly seven years after the devastating Katrina,stranding dozens of people in cars and homes. Isaac brought wind gusts of more than 96 kph. Power was knocked out to more than 5,00,000 customers across Louisiana,most of them in New Orleans.