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Chip giant Intel earnings meet expectations

San Francisco  - Intel reported income and earnings in line with Wall Street expectations Tuesday, calming investor jitters about how the global slowdown would affect the world's biggest semiconduc

Financials, oil stocks lead Wall Street higher

New York  - Two regional banking firms reported profits Tuesday that beat expectations, shoring up confidence in the financial services industry, and higher oil prices spurred buying in petroleum s

UN urges justice for victims of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge genocide

New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday called for Cambodia's courts to deliver a verdict on the mass killings in the 1970s by the country's Khmer Rouge government, whose leader Pol Pot died 10 years ago.

Pol Pot led communist troops to topple the US-backed government in Phnom Penh in April, 1975, and launched a country-wide sweep to wipe pout the middle class and intellectuals, resulting in more than 2 million deaths from forced labour and extermination.

Somalia wants multinational force to help peace process

Somalia wants multinational force to help peace process

UN rights council urges India to ratify anti-torture treaty

The U. N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC)New York, Apr. 15: The U. N.

UN yet to receive Pak request for probe into Bhutto assassination

New York, Apr.

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