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LAHORE - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contractor Raymond Davis, who was charged with double murder after shooting dead two men in Lahore last month, refused to sign a charge sheet in a preliminary hearing at the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday and insisted that he had diplomatic immunity, lawyers said.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yousaf began a regular hearing of the case, at the start of which the accused was told to sign a charge sheet, but Davis refused to

SAN FRANCISCO - Apple on Wednesday sent out emailed invitations to a March 2 San Francisco press event hinting at the debut of a new version of its hot-selling iPad tablet computer. The cryptic invitations provided the date, time and location of the event and show an image of a March 2 calendar page peeling back to reveal a corner of an iPad.
The message on the page reads "Come see what 2011 will be the year of. Technology analysts have taken to referring to 2011 as the "year of

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - The outlawed Jamaatud Dawa (JD) will hold countrywide protests on Friday against the expected release of US national Raymond Davis, JD leader Ameer Hamza said on Monday. He was addressing a rally at the Qurtaba Chowk. Hamza alleged that Davis is a terrorist who should be hanged for killing innocent Pakistanis.
If the rulers tried to give him immunity, they would face the same face as former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak faced. Participants of the rally chanted slogans

ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telephoned Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Sunday reiterating the demand for the release of Raymond Davis, an American citizen arrested in Lahore last month for killing two Pakistanis.
"The US secretary of state once again claimed in her telephonic conversation with the prime minister that Davis is a member of the diplomatic staff of the US embassy in the Pakistani capital and he is entitled to immunity," an official said.

TEHRAN - Iran will soon release two Germans arrested in October after converting their sentence to fines, the students news agency quoted a judiciary official as saying on Saturday. "Their jail sentences have been changed to $50,000 cash payments for each ... They will be released after that," ISNA quoted a Revolutionary Court official as saying.
ISNA said initially they had been sentenced to 20 months jail "... but were pardoned based on Islamic clemency". The two were arrested

LAHORE/ISLAMABAD - US Senator John Kerry said on Tuesday Raymond Davis, an American national detained in Pakistan on charges of double murder, will be subjected to a criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice, however he enjoys immunity under the Vienna Conventions of 1961 as he was working as a diplomat with the US embassy in Islamabad.
In a roundtable meeting with a small group of journalists from the print media, he said the US diplomat fired in self defence and

LAHORE - Jamaat-i-Islami has strongly opposed the release of Raymond Davis under any pressure and warned if the rulers handed over Raymond Davis by compromising national honor and dignity, they won't survive; even Washington would not be able to shield them.
While speaking to a seminar on Monday held at Lahore Press Club, JI leaders said rulers must provide justice to the aggrieved families by disregarding every pressure. "The days of the US supremacy were over, states were

ISLAMABAD - With the ouster of Shah Mahmood Qureshi from the cabinet - the former foreign minister who declined immunity for the jailed US citizen Raymond Davis - the country's foreign policy managers have started fresh but secret consultations with the US authorities to resolve the contentious issue amicably and avert the possible suspension of diplomatic ties between Islamabad and Washington.
"President Barack Obama's call to President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday has changed

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON - As the State Department on Saturday said talks between the US, Afghanistan and Pakistan, due later this month had been postponed, US President Barack Obama called his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari and discussed with him the contentious issue of Raymond Davis, an American national arrested in Lahore last month for killing two Pakistanis.
President Obama made a phone call to President Zardari late on Friday night asking for Davis' release, a

The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) observed a protest day on Friday against possible release of US national Raymond Davis on immense US pressure.
Rallies were held in the federal and provincial capitals, which were attended by JI leaders and other religious leaders. Addressing Friday prayer sermon at Mansoora, JI chief Munawar Hassan said that the rulers were US slaves and nothing good was expected from them. He made it clear that if rulers handed over Davis by compromising national honour

LAHORE: US Consul General in Lahore, Carmela Conroy said on Friday US national Raymond Davis enjoyed diplomatic immunity and should be released from police custody immediately.
Addressing a press conference at her residence, Conroy said the US respected Pakistan's sovereignty, law and wishes of the people, adding that the US regretted the killing of the three Pakistan youths calling it an accident.
She said the police had not investigated the incident properly, claiming

ISLAMABAD - Taking strong exception to the growing US pressure for the release of its citizen Raymond Davis, who was arrested last month in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis, Islamabad has conveyed to Washington that its repeated demands are proving to be counterproductive and are complicating the issue.
Pakistani authorities are highly perturbed that the Obama administration is least bothered about the rising anti-American sentiments in Pakistan, especially the rage after the

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The United States on Monday again pressed Pakistan to release Raymond Davis, the American citizen arrested in Lahore last month for killing two Pakistanis, saying Islamabad's refusal to set him free was a sheer violation of international laws.
US Ambassador Cameron Munter called on President Asif Ali Zardari and reiterated his country's demand for the release of Davis, who has been declared as a diplomat by Washington and hence entitled to criminal immunity.