Arafat could be expelled to Tunis: Israel’s warning
PARIS, Dec 13: Israel’s Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau said on Thursday he did not rule out expelling Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Tunis, and warned that the Palestinian Authority had...
80,000 protest EU’s stand on welfare
BRUSSELS, Dec 13: Some 80,000 labour activists and demonstrators of many stripes gathered in Brussels late on Thursday to voice their dissatisfaction with plans for Europe’s future on the eve of...
Broadcast centre destroyed
RAMALLAH, Dec 13: In a symbolic blow to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s increasingly shaky rule, Israeli troops destroyed a Palestinian broadcast centre in Ramallah during sweeping retaliatory strikes on the West...
Rugova’s bid for presidency blocked
PRISTINA, Dec 13: Ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova failed in an initial bid to win the Kosovo presidency on Thursday, as minority Serbs and hardline Albanian parties refused to support him...
The ABM Treaty: main points
THE TREATY was signed in Moscow on May 26, 1972, by US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. It is a cornerstone of international arms control agreements reached during...