HSBC Executive quits over Bank's Links to Money Laundering
Written by Breaking News Online Team
Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:39
News Desk: Top compliance executive David Bagley of the international bank HSBC has resigned on Tuesday. The British bank is accused of giving terrorists and criminals access to the US financial system by failing to guard against money laundering.
News Desk: NASA astronaut of Indian origin, Sunita Williams has begun her second space journey, as a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts including her was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
News Desk: A suicide bomber stormed a wedding party killing an MP and 22 others in the north of Afghanistan on Saturday. The attack created a panic in the region. However, no outfit has claimed the responsibility for the attack.
News Desk: At least 200 Syrian civilians were killed in an attack at the village of Tremseh in Hama province on Thursday, the opposition activists claimed. It could be described as one of the bloodiest single massacres in the country since uprising.
News Desk: The Taliban stormed a police hostel in Pakistan's Lahore by killing at least 9 security forces on Thursday. This is the second attack on security forces in the country since Islamabad resumed the supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Congolese Warlord Thomas Lubanga gets 14 years in Jail
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:47
News Desk: Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga on Tuesday was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment. He was convicted by the International Criminal Court in March for recruiting and using children in his rebel army in 2002 and 2003.
US declares Afghanistan newest "Major Non-NATO Ally"
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Saturday, 07 July 2012 13:33
News Desk: The United States declared Afghanistan as its newest "major non-NATO ally". The announcement comes ahead of the US army will be withdrawn from the country by 2014.
Pak SC asks PM to reopen Graft cases against Zardari
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Wednesday, 27 June 2012 13:36
News Desk: Pakistan Supreme Court has put the pressure on the new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf asking him to reopen the graft cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
News Desk: The trouble-torn Egypt got a new President, as hardliner Mohamed Morsy of the Muslim Brotherhood party defeated former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq to take over the reign of the country.
News Desk: An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude rocked Indonesia's Aceh province on Sumatra island on Saturday. However, there are no reports of casualty or damage so far.
