This week ended as a bad one for both TDP President Nara Chandrababu Naidu as well as YSRCP President YS Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Chandrababu tasted initial shock in this week when Vallabhaneni Vamsi embraced YS Jagan in public. Sources say that Vamsi is keeping an option open for himself knowing that TDP is on the way to get die

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Two MPs on the culture, media and sport select committee have clashed in the deepening row over whether the committee had discussed the fitness of Rupert Murdoch to run an international company before the devastating criticism was tabled on Monday by the Labour MP Tom Watson.

Labour MPs and the single Liberal Democrat

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Activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy in Beijing, a US official and Chinese state media say.

Mr Chen, a high-profile dissident, is believed to have been at the embassy since escaping house arrest last week.

Neither Beijing nor Washington had confirmed his presence at the embassy.

But his departure from the mission comes

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Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, in deadly defiance of US President Barack Obama's call that war was ending during a visit to Afghanistan on the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Seven people were killed after attackers dressed in burqas detonated a suicide car Read more...

A passenger plane carrying 127 people crashed in stormy weather and burst into flames while approaching Pakistan's Islamabad airport Friday evening. There were no reports of survivors.

The commercial airliner, Bhoja Air 737, on its maiden flight, was descending for landing when it crashed a few miles from Islamabad airport, near

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PARIS—Support for François Hollande, the presidential candidate for France's Socialist party, narrowed against that for current French President Nicolas Sarkozy two days ahead of the first round of elections, according to a poll Thursday.

A survey carried out from April 18-19 by pollster CSA showed Mr. Hollande's lead over

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