http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/ Get latest news from Titan Herald en-us 2010-09-04 18:22:28 Copyright: (C) Titan Herald, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.titanherald.com http://www.titanherald.com/images/header/header.gif http://www.titanherald.com YANGON, May 28 (Xinhua) The Chinese Enterprises Association, based in Myanmar, donated clothing, food and stationery to children in the Kaba Aye Orphanage in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon Friday, three days ahead of the fall of the International Children's Day. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8207/CHINESE.COMPANIES.BASED.IN.MYANMAR.DONATE.NECESSITIES.TO.ORPHANS. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8207/CHINESE.COMPANIES.BASED.IN.MYANMAR.DONATE.NECESSITIES.TO.ORPHANS. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World DHAKA, May 28 (Xinhua) The mobile phone has become a major communication device in Bangladesh which covers half of all families in the country, said a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics ( BBS) survey. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8208/..MOBILE.PHONE.COVERS.HALF.OF.ALL.FAMILIES.IN.BANGLADESH:.SURVEY. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8208/..MOBILE.PHONE.COVERS.HALF.OF.ALL.FAMILIES.IN.BANGLADESH:.SURVEY. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World NEW DELHI, May 28 (Xinhua) At least 65 people were killed and over 200 others injured when a freight train hit an express train after the latter derailed following a sabotage of the railway tracks by suspected extreme left-wing Naxal rebels in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal early Friday morning, said police. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8209/.65.KILLED,.200.INJURED.IN.TRAIN.COLLISION.DUE.TO.REBEL.ATTACK. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8209/.65.KILLED,.200.INJURED.IN.TRAIN.COLLISION.DUE.TO.REBEL.ATTACK. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World DAVAO CITY, Philippines, May 28 (Xinhua) A soldier and a suspected bomber were killed in a shootout in southern Philippines on Thursday, police on Friday said. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8210/.TWO.KILLED.IN.POLICE-ARMY.OPERATION.VS..BOMBING.SUSPECT.IN.S.PHILIPPINES. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8210/.TWO.KILLED.IN.POLICE-ARMY.OPERATION.VS..BOMBING.SUSPECT.IN.S.PHILIPPINES. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World SEOUL, May 28 (Xinhua) - South Korean - President Lee Myung-bak hosted a welcome ceremony for Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao here on Friday afternoon before their talks. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8211/SOUTH.KOREAN-CHINA .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8211/SOUTH.KOREAN-CHINA .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World ISLAMABAD, May 28 (Xinhua) Four policemen were killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Satellite Town of Quetta, a capital city of Blochistan province in southwest Pakistan, local media reported Friday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8212/.FOUR.POLICEMEN.KILLED.IN.QUETTA,.PAKISTAN .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8212/.FOUR.POLICEMEN.KILLED.IN.QUETTA,.PAKISTAN .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World BOGOTA, May 28 (Xinhua) Seven people were killed and another one was injured in a clash between two paramilitary groups in northwestern Colombia, local police said on Thursday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8213/7.KILLED.IN.COLOMBIAN.PARAMILITARY.CONFLICT. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8213/7.KILLED.IN.COLOMBIAN.PARAMILITARY.CONFLICT. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World LAHORE, Pakistan, May 28 (Xinhua) At least five people were killed and 10 others were injured in a matches factory blast in east Pakistan's city of Lahore on Friday, police sources said. According to police, explosives used for making matches caused the blast. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8214/5.KILLED.IN.MATCHES.FACTORY.BLAST.IN.LAHORE,.PAKISTAN. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8214/5.KILLED.IN.MATCHES.FACTORY.BLAST.IN.LAHORE,.PAKISTAN. .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World HANOI, May 28 (Xinhua) Blue ear disease has spread to one more northern Son La province of Vietnam, raising the country's total number of municipalities and provinces hit by the disease to 16, said a report of the Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Friday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8215/VIETNAM.REPORTS.BLUE.EAR.DISEASE.IN.ONE.MORE.PROVINCE .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8215/VIETNAM.REPORTS.BLUE.EAR.DISEASE.IN.ONE.MORE.PROVINCE .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World ISLAMABAD, May 28 (Xinhua) A group of suspected militants stormed a mosque in the Pakistani eastern city of Lahore on Friday, witnesses and TV channels reported. There was no immediate report of any casualties. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8216/.SUSPECTED.MILITANTS.STORM.MOSQUE.IN.PAKISTAN'S.LAHORE .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-29/8216/.SUSPECTED.MILITANTS.STORM.MOSQUE.IN.PAKISTAN'S.LAHORE .html 2010-05-29 00:00:00 World BOGOTA, May 27 (Xinhua) Three prisoners were killed and 25 others injured in a riot in La Modelo Prison in the Colombian capital Bogota, officials said Wednesday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8114/COLOMBIAN.PRISON.RIOT.KILLS.3,.INJURES.25. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8114/COLOMBIAN.PRISON.RIOT.KILLS.3,.INJURES.25. .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World LIMA, May 26 (Xinhua) The death toll of the shipwreck in the Amazonas River in Loreto region of Peru rose to five on Wednesday, according to local authorities. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8115/DEATH.TOLL.OF.PERU'S.SHIPWRECK.RISES.TO.5. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8115/DEATH.TOLL.OF.PERU'S.SHIPWRECK.RISES.TO.5. .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World WASHINGTON, May 27,(AP) – President Barack Obama is breaking with the go-it-alone Bush years in a new strategy for keeping the nation safe, counting more on U.S. allies to tackle terrorism and other global problems. It's an approach that already has proved tricky in practice. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8116/OBAMA'S.NEW.SECURITY.STRATEGY.BREAKS.WITH.BUSH .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8116/OBAMA'S.NEW.SECURITY.STRATEGY.BREAKS.WITH.BUSH .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World LIMA, May 26 (Xinhua) Peru signed a series of bilateral agreements with Honduras here Wednesday during a visit by Honduran President Porfirio Lobo. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8117/PERU,.HONDURAS.SIGN.COOPERATION.AGREEMENTS .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8117/PERU,.HONDURAS.SIGN.COOPERATION.AGREEMENTS .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World London, May 27 (PTI) New British Foreign Secretary William Hague plans to visit India an emerging superpower with which his government is trying to build a "genuinely http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8118/HAGUE.PLANS.TO.VISIT.INDIA .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8118/HAGUE.PLANS.TO.VISIT.INDIA .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World Colombo, May 26 (PTI) Not willing to take any chances despite the end of the war with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lankan authorities will deploy as many as 6000 police personnel besides the army to ensure security during International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) award function to be held here. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8119/ARMY,.6000.POLICE.PERSONNEL.TO.PROVIDE.SECURITY.FOR.IIFA .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8119/ARMY,.6000.POLICE.PERSONNEL.TO.PROVIDE.SECURITY.FOR.IIFA .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) The Canadian High Commission here denied visa to a senior IB officer but granted it later after the Indian Home Ministry took a tough stand warning that Canadian citizens wanting to visit Afghanistan from India may face similar problems. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8120/CANADA.DENIES.VISA.TO.IB.MAN,.GRANTS.IT.AFTER.GOVT.TALKS.TOUGH .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8120/CANADA.DENIES.VISA.TO.IB.MAN,.GRANTS.IT.AFTER.GOVT.TALKS.TOUGH .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World ISLAMABAD, May 27 (Xinhua) At least 25 militants were killed and several others injured as Pakistani security forces jets bombed insurgents hideouts in the country's northwest tribal area on Thursday, local TV channel reported. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8121/AIR.STRIKES.KILL.25.MILITANTS.IN.NW.PAKISTAN. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8121/AIR.STRIKES.KILL.25.MILITANTS.IN.NW.PAKISTAN. .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World BANGKOK, May 27 (Xinhua) The Thai government on Friday (May 28) will assess if a curfew's enforcement should be extended, Deputy Prime Minister in charge of security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban said Thursday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8122/THAI.GOV'T.TO.ASSESS.IF.CURFEW.SHOULD.BE.EXTENDED:.DEPUTY.PM. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8122/THAI.GOV'T.TO.ASSESS.IF.CURFEW.SHOULD.BE.EXTENDED:.DEPUTY.PM. .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World MOSCOW, May 27 (Xinhua) Seven people have died in an explosion that tore through the center of southern Russian city Stavropol, an emergencies official said on Thursday. As of 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (0400 GMT), seven people had died due to the blast triggered by a home-made explosive device at around 06:45 p.m. local time (1445 GMT) Wednesday outside the city's House of Culture and Sport, just minutes before a folk dancing performance of a Chechen group started. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8123/SEVEN.DIED.IN.MASCOW.EXPLOSION .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-28/8123/SEVEN.DIED.IN.MASCOW.EXPLOSION .html 2010-05-28 00:00:00 World Beijing, May 26 (PTI) China has no plans to build a mega dam over river Brahmaputra in Tibet as it is well aware of the concerns India and Bangladesh have in this regard, a senior academic attached to a state-run think tank said Wednesday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8006/'CHINA.HAS.NO.PLANS.TO.BUILD.A.MASSIVE.DAM.ON.BRAHMAPUTRA'. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8006/'CHINA.HAS.NO.PLANS.TO.BUILD.A.MASSIVE.DAM.ON.BRAHMAPUTRA'. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) The Indian Embassy in China will soon get an Economic Wing which is expected to enhance the negotiating capabilities of the mission and also help in coordination on issues related to foreign investment. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8007/INDIAN.MISSION.IN.BEIJING.TO.HAVE.ECONOMIC.WING .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8007/INDIAN.MISSION.IN.BEIJING.TO.HAVE.ECONOMIC.WING .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World London, May 26 (PTI) Twenty seven foreign nationals, including Indian citizens, have been arrested for working illegally following a major operation by immigration officials at a farm in north-west England. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8008/INDIANS.HELD.IN.UK.FOR.WORKING.ILLEGALLY .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8008/INDIANS.HELD.IN.UK.FOR.WORKING.ILLEGALLY .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World New Delhi, May 26 (PTI) Air India Wednesday cancelled another 76 domestic and international flights across the country leaving thousands of passengers stranded on the second day of the strike by the airline's engineers and ground staff. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8009/AI.CANCELS.76.FLIGHTS,.UNIONS.TO.HOLD.TALKS.WITH.MGMT .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8009/AI.CANCELS.76.FLIGHTS,.UNIONS.TO.HOLD.TALKS.WITH.MGMT .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World Beijing, May 26 (PTI) President Pratibha Patil arrived here Wednesday to a red carpet welcome as the first Indian Head of State to visit China in a decade during which she will meet the top Chinese leadership and sign a number of agreements. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8010/PRESIDENT.ARRIVES.IN.CHINA.ON.6-DAY.VISIT .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8010/PRESIDENT.ARRIVES.IN.CHINA.ON.6-DAY.VISIT .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World London, May 26 (PTI) New British Foreign Secretary William Hague plans to visit India an emerging superpower with which his government is trying to build a "genuinely special relationship" within the next few months. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8011/HAGUE.PLANS.TO.VISIT.INDIA .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8011/HAGUE.PLANS.TO.VISIT.INDIA .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World NANNING, May 26 (Xinhua) At least eight people were killed and 24 others injured in a traffic accident in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wednesday morning, local police said. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8012/EIGHT.KILLED.IN.TRAFFIC.ACCIDENT.IN.SW.CHINA .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8012/EIGHT.KILLED.IN.TRAFFIC.ACCIDENT.IN.SW.CHINA .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World KINGSTON ,May 26 (AFP) – Gun battles raging in the Jamaican capital have left more than 60 people dead, mostly civilians, hospital sources said Tuesday, as troops fanned out across the city hunting an alleged drug kingpin. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8013/MORE.THAN.60.DEAD.IN.BATTLE.FOR.JAMAICA.DRUG.KINGPIN .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8013/MORE.THAN.60.DEAD.IN.BATTLE.FOR.JAMAICA.DRUG.KINGPIN .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World WASHINGTON,May 26(AP) – Under pressure to take action, President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, pre-empting Republican efforts to force a congressional vote to send the troops. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8014/TROOPS.TO.THE.MEXICAN.BORDER:.OBAMA.TO.SEND.1,200 .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8014/TROOPS.TO.THE.MEXICAN.BORDER:.OBAMA.TO.SEND.1,200 .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World SEOUL, South Korea ,May 26 (AP)– North Korea declared it would cut all ties with South Korea in response to its blaming of the communist country for the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship, as tensions on the divided peninsula spiked to their highest level in a decade. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8015/NKOREA.CUTS.TIES.WITH.SOUTH,.RAISES.WAR.RHETORIC .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8015/NKOREA.CUTS.TIES.WITH.SOUTH,.RAISES.WAR.RHETORIC .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World DHAKA, May 26 (Xinhua) The Bangladeshi government expects to receive demand orders for sending 55,000 women workers abroad in the next 2010-11 fiscal year (July 2010 to June 2011), mainly for housekeeping services, according to local media on Wednesday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8016/BANGLADESH.TO.SEND.50,000.WOMEN.WORKERS.ABROAD.IN.NEXT.FISCAL.YEAR. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8016/BANGLADESH.TO.SEND.50,000.WOMEN.WORKERS.ABROAD.IN.NEXT.FISCAL.YEAR. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World BANGKOK, May 26 (Xinhua) Two were killed and over 30 others were wounded in two bomb attacks in the city of a southernmost province of Yala on Wednesday, Thailand's Channel 9 Television reported. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8017/2.KILLED,.OVER.30.INJURED.IN.2.BOMB.ATTACKS.IN.S.THAILAND. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8017/2.KILLED,.OVER.30.INJURED.IN.2.BOMB.ATTACKS.IN.S.THAILAND. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World JAKARTA, May 26 (Xinhua) An earthquake with magnitude of 5.2 struck off North Sulawesi in eastern parts of Indonesia on Wednesday, the Meteorology and Geophysiscs Agency reported here. The quake jolted at 14:14 p.m. Jakarta time (0714 GMT) with epicenter at 106 km northeast Melonguane of North Sulawesi and with the depth at 35 km, the agency said. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8018/MODERATE.QUAKE.ROCKS.EASTERN.INDONESIA. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8018/MODERATE.QUAKE.ROCKS.EASTERN.INDONESIA. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, May 26 (Xinhua) A powerful explosion in southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Wednesday destroyed several cars and motorbikes, police said. "It was a car bomb attack carried out by militants in a parking lot destroyingseveral vehicles and motorbikes," regional police chief Mohammad Shafiq Afzali told Xinhua. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8019/EXPLOSION.DESTROYS.SEVERAL.VEHICLES.IN.KANDAHAR. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8019/EXPLOSION.DESTROYS.SEVERAL.VEHICLES.IN.KANDAHAR. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World SEOUL, May 26 (Xinhua) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday voiced unequivocal support for South Korea in dealing with the alleged torpedo attack by the Democratic People' s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that killed 46 sailors in late March, calling Pyongyang's "aggression unacceptable." http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8020/HILLARY.CLINTON.VOICES.STRONG.SUPPORT.FOR.S..KOREA.OVER.SHIP.SINKING. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8020/HILLARY.CLINTON.VOICES.STRONG.SUPPORT.FOR.S..KOREA.OVER.SHIP.SINKING. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World ISLAMABAD, May 26 (Xinhua) A landmine blast killed a Pakistani soldier and injured four others in South Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, official sources in the region said. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8021/PAKISTANI.SOLDIER.DIES.IN.LANDMINE.BLAST. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-27/8021/PAKISTANI.SOLDIER.DIES.IN.LANDMINE.BLAST. .html 2010-05-27 00:00:00 World BEIJING (AFP) – The United States and China on Monday opened annual high-level strategic talks, with the US trying to persuade Beijing to back tough action against North Korea over the sinking of a Seoul warship. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7758/CHINA,.US.OPEN.TALKS.WITH.TRADE,.N.KOREA.IN.FOCUS .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7758/CHINA,.US.OPEN.TALKS.WITH.TRADE,.N.KOREA.IN.FOCUS .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World KABUL, May 24 (Xinhua) Since January 2010, some 50,000 Afghan refugees have returned home from the neighboring states of Pakistan and Iran, a statement of United Nations Refugee Agency ( UNHCR http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7759/50,000.AFGHAN.REFUGEES.RETURN.HOME.SO.FAR.THIS.YEAR. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7759/50,000.AFGHAN.REFUGEES.RETURN.HOME.SO.FAR.THIS.YEAR. .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World MANGALORE, India (AP) - India's civil aviation minister said Monday that a human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7760/HUMAN.ERROR.POSSIBLE.CAUSE.OF.INDIAN.PLANE.CRASH .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7760/HUMAN.ERROR.POSSIBLE.CAUSE.OF.INDIAN.PLANE.CRASH .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World NEW DELHI, May 24 (AFP) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday that a cross-border "trust deficit" was the main obstacle holding back any improvement in relations between India and arch-rival Pakistan. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7761/INDIAN.PM.SAYS.'TRUST.DEFICIT'.HOLDING.BACK.PAKISTAN.TIES .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7761/INDIAN.PM.SAYS.'TRUST.DEFICIT'.HOLDING.BACK.PAKISTAN.TIES .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World LONDON (AP) - Child deaths worldwide seem to have fallen faster than officials thought, as a new study estimates far fewer children are dying every year than previously guessed by the United Nations. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7762/STUDY:.FEWER.KIDS.DYING.THAN.PREVIOUSLY.THOUGHT .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7762/STUDY:.FEWER.KIDS.DYING.THAN.PREVIOUSLY.THOUGHT .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World MOSCOW, May 24, 2010 (AFP) - Grand Duchess Leonida Georgievna, one of the leading members of the Romanov dynasty ousted from the Russian throne by the Bolsheviks, has died in Spain, a spokesman said Monday. She was 95. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7763/ROMANOV.GRAND.DUCHESS.DIES.AGED.95:.SPOKESMAN .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7763/ROMANOV.GRAND.DUCHESS.DIES.AGED.95:.SPOKESMAN .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong's Democratic Party has met with a Chinese official in the first formal contact between Beijing and the opposition party since the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7764/RUSSIA-ROYALS-HISTORY-SPAIN .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7764/RUSSIA-ROYALS-HISTORY-SPAIN .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World PORT OF SPAIN, May 24, 2010 (AFP) - A female lawyer appeared poised to make history on Monday in Trinidad and Tobago's high-risk snap elections called by Prime Minister Patrick Manning. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7765/TRINIDAD.AND.TOBAGO.ON.EDGE.OVER.SNAP.ELECTION .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7765/TRINIDAD.AND.TOBAGO.ON.EDGE.OVER.SNAP.ELECTION .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7766/BANGLADESH.APPROVES.ESTABLISHMENT.OF.EXPATRIATES.BANK .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7766/BANGLADESH.APPROVES.ESTABLISHMENT.OF.EXPATRIATES.BANK .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World SANAA, May 24 (Xinhua) - A U.S. couple along with one Yemeni driver were kidnapped by gunmen near Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, on Monday. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7767/U.S..COUPLE.KIDNAPPED.NEAR.YEMENI.CAPITAL .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7767/U.S..COUPLE.KIDNAPPED.NEAR.YEMENI.CAPITAL .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World RANCHI, India, May 24 (Xinhua) - India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday withdrew support to the Shibu Soren-led government in the central state of Jharkhand, reducing it to a minority. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7768/INDIAN.OPPOSITION.BJP.FINALLY.QUITS.GOVERNMENT.IN.CENTRAL.STATE. .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7768/INDIAN.OPPOSITION.BJP.FINALLY.QUITS.GOVERNMENT.IN.CENTRAL.STATE. .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World New Delhi, May 24 (PTI) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday said there is no proposal before his government for creation of new states but there have been demands for a separate Telangana, which is being looked into by a committee. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7770/NO.PROPOSAL.TO.CREATE.NEW.STATES:.PM .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7770/NO.PROPOSAL.TO.CREATE.NEW.STATES:.PM .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World PHNOM PENH, May 24 (Kyodo) - The U.N.-backed tribunal set up to try former Khmer Rouge leaders said Monday the verdict in the trial of the regime's prison chief will be announced July 26. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7771/KHMER.ROUGE.PRISON.CHIEF.VERDICT.SET.FOR.JULY.26 .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7771/KHMER.ROUGE.PRISON.CHIEF.VERDICT.SET.FOR.JULY.26 .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World BEIJING, May 24 (Kyodo) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship, which multinational investigations found last week was caused by a North Korean torpedo, has created a ''highly precarious'' security situation in the region. http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7772/INTER-KOREAN.SECURITY.'HIGHLY.PRECARIOUS,'.CLINTON.SAYS .html http://www.titanherald.com/WORLD/News/2010-05-25/7772/INTER-KOREAN.SECURITY.'HIGHLY.PRECARIOUS,'.CLINTON.SAYS .html 2010-05-25 00:00:00 World