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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan military is guilty of rights abuses on the Afghan border, using new security laws and a colonial-era penal system to act with impunity, a report by Amnesty International said Thursday.

WASHINGTON: Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar will be honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously, organisers of the Recording Academy announced today, the first Indian to get the prestigious award.

The Indian-origin nurse who apparently took her life after being duped by a prank call from two Australian radio hosts, had left a note for her family members, but they still believe there are "unexplained" circumstances behind her death, the Labour MP, Mr Keith Vaz has said.

Egypt’s military on Wednesday postponed a scheduled reconciliation dialogue between the Islamist President, Mr Mohamed Mursi and the main opposition, which in a policy shift appealed to people to vote against the controversial draft constitution in the referendum rather than boycotting.

BRUSSELS: Nato strongly condemned North Korea’s rocket launch on Wednesday, saying it went against UN Security Council resolutions and could destabilise the region surrounding Korea.

Freezing fog has led to the cancellation of 60 flights in Britain's Heathrow Airport Wednesday, the Daily Mail reported.

MELBOURNE/LONDON:  Facing global condemnation, an Australian radio network, whose prank call to a UK hospital treating a pregnant Kate Middleton led to an Indian-origin nurse’s death, on Tuesday said it would give at least Aus $500,000 to help the grieving family, amid calls for a full inquiry into the “tragic case”.

PARIS: The Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee on Monday honoured the European Union with Peace Prize for 2012 in the presence of EU heads of state and government in Oslo.

WASHINGTON: After being rescued in a daring military operation from Taliban captivity, an Indian American doctor who was involved in training local medical professionals in Afghanistan, is set to return home.

HONOLULU: Mr Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbour were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater.