November 28 - News

Monday 28 November, 2011.

TOP STORY Egypt votes in first post-Mubarak elections Egyptian voters begin casting their ballots on Monday in the first parliamentary elections since a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak in February. HEADLINES 15 killed in Iraq bomb attacks  A suicide car bomber on Monday detonated an explosives-packed vehicle near a prison north of Baghdad, killing up to 13 people, while another attack cost two more lives. Pak nukes not safe, says Qureshi; govt rejects contention  Pakistan's nuclear weapons are not safe under the present PPP dispensation, country's former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said, evoking an angry response from the government, which rejected his contention as "baseless". Thousands in Syria rally against Arab sanctions  Tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in the capital on Monday against the Arab League decision to impose crippling sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's regime, a report said. Morocco's Arab Spring election won by Islamists The dominant showing by an Islamist Party in Morocco's parliamentary elections, according to partial results, appears to be one more sign that religious-based parties are benefiting the most from the new freedoms brought by the Arab Spring. AFRICA & SOUTH AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH ASIA WEST ASIA

OTHER TOP STORIES U.S. vows full probe into Pak border incident UN climate change conference begins in Durban Arab League agrees sweeping sanctions on Syria Vacate Shamsi airbase within 15 days: Pak to US