Mar 16 2007
Even as a new agreement was reached between Hamas and Fatah on Thursday in Jerusalem Palestinians loyal to the two sides continued to clash in northern Gaza. Many people including civilians were wounded. The new agreement is to be approved by the...
Mar 15 2007
One of the resolutions passed at the conclusion of the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing on Thursday says ‘We shall firmly oppose the secessionist activities in any form to seek the...
Mar 15 2007
The 75 year old French president Jacques Chirac is likely to be bsuy even after he leaves the presidential office in May this year, fighting decades old cases. The cases come to haunt him at a time when he will not have immunity as president any...
Mar 15 2007
The bill to renew Britain’s nuclear arsenal, which faced strong criticisms within the ruling Labour party leading to many resignations, has been passed by the Commons. The Blair government has won the vote by 409 to 161. Tony Blair’s...
Mar 15 2007
The talks between Mexico and the United States could not achieve much as Bush was not able to sign agreements with Mexico on a number of key issues, though he appeared optimistic while addressing the press after the talks. Bush’s meetings with...
Mar 14 2007
A schoolboy died when the police stamped on the rural protestors who had gathered in large numbers in the town of Zhushan in central China to protest the exorbitant rise in the price of the bus tickets to travel to the nearby town. The police in the...
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Mar 14 2007
Lebanon’s interior minister Hassan al-Sabaa said Tuesday that the four Syrians arrested by Lebanon have confessed to bombing two buses in Lebanon last month. The men belonged to a small Palestinian group and had received orderes from Syrian...
Mar 14 2007
The Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki has expressed fears that a failure on the part of the parliament to pass a draft oil law by the end of June may lead the Americans to withdraw their support to his government, effectively ousting him. The...
Mar 14 2007
The latest victim of the no holds barred politics of Pakistan, its Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, was manhandled by security men before shifting the venue of hearings on allegations on him to another place. The sacked Chief Justice of...
Mar 14 2007
The highly volatile Tribal Areas in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Prvince that borders Afghanistan has witnessed yet another bomb attack. A suicide bombing at Dargai here has killed 44 military cadets and wounded many more. Islamic militants...