 |
|
| Sections | |
|
|
|
|
International
|
|
Lanka asks Norway to revive peace move
Govt, Tigers trade allegations over killings
Sri Lanka's government has asked Norway to help revive a moribund peace process amid an escalation of fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels, a press report said yesterday.
|
 |
Floods, rain kill 60 in Pakistan
Floods and heavy rain have killed more than 60 people and left some 200,000 homeless in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, officials and police said yesterday.
|
|
|
India rebuffs US call over foreign policy
India has rebuffed a US call to ditch the Non-Aligned Movement, saying it remains strongly committed to the 116-member organisation that includes some of Washington's biggest foes.
|
|
|
Hindus resume trek to melting Kashmir shrine
Hindus have resumed a trek to a sacred cave shrine in Indian Kashmir housing a fast-melting, phallus-shaped ice form, a day after heavy rains halted the pilgrimage, officials said Sunday.
|
|
|
Airstrike kills Islamic Jihad warlord
Two civilians among 7 killed in Israeli raid
The top commander of Islamic Jihad's armed wing for the Gaza Strip and two lieutenants were killed in an Israeli air strike at the weekend, said the faction, calling yesterday for revenge.
|
|
|
Palestinians start receiving funds
Israel transferred more than 110 million dollars in tax duties to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday, lifting a 17-month economic boycott to bolster president Mahmud Abbas over Hamas.
|
|
|
Chavez holds talks with Ahmadinejad
Venezuela's fiercely anti-US President Hugo Chavez held talks with his Iranian opposite number Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday, on the last leg of a tour of nations at loggerheads with Washington.
|
|
|
Nato raids kill 62 Taliban, 45 Afghan civilians
An investigation into airstrikes that slammed into Afghan homes where Taliban fighters sought shelter found that 62 insurgents and 45 civilians were killed, two Afghan officials said yesterday.
|
|
|
Only Iraqis can win the war: Analysts
The harder President Bush has pushed to win in Iraq, the closer he has come to losing. The question no longer is whether the US military can fully stabilise Iraq. It cannot.
|
 |
Israel to indict president for sex offences
Prosecutors will file an unprecedented indictment for sex offences against Israeli President Moshe Katsav yesterday as part of a plea bargain saving him from rape charges that has sparked outrage.
|
 |
Botched UK Attacks
US maintains high airport security after
The United States on Sunday maintained reinforced security at US airports after two car bombs were found in London and a blazing vehicle crashed into a terminal at Glasgow's airport.
|
|
|
Smoking ban takes effect in England
A ban on smoking in public places and workplaces came into force in England yesterday, in a move the government said would improve the health of thousands of people.
|
|
|
Thai PM casts doubt on polls date
Thailand's army-installed Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont on Sunday cast doubt on whether the kingdom's post-coup elections would go ahead as promised this year.
|
 |
Hong Kong celebrates 10 years of Chinese rule
Hong Kong on Sunday celebrated 10 years under Chinese rule with pomp and circumstance, but tens of thousands of pro-democracy campaigners also gathered to call for sweeping political reform.
|
|
|
Iraq PM wants provincial polls by year's end
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said yesterday he is determined to hold provincial elections by the end of this year as part of plans to delegate more power to the country's divided communities.
|
|
|
AU chief for new UN resolution on Darfur
A new United Nations resolution is needed to ensure that Sudan accepts the deployment of a long-awaited hybrid force to Darfur, the head of the African Union commission said Sunday.
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
© thedailystar.net, 2007.
All Rights Reserved. |
|
|
