Bush at odds with Riyadh over bases
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: US President George W. Bush wants to keep the US military presence in Saudi Arabia despite reported grumblings from the Saudis that the United States has overstayed its...
India, US to share military intelligence
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: India and the United States on Thursday concluded an agreement to set up military cooperation between the two which among other things provides for the sharing of...
Ecevit challenges West view of Islam
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has challenged and repudiated the view that democracy and secularism cannot exist in an Islamic society and cited his country’s own example to...
Cheney spoke to Indians about Enron: White House
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: The White House disclosed on Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to Indian government officials last year about Enron investment in a $2.9 billion power project, but...
Palestinians protest arrest of PFLP chief
GAZA CITY, Jan 18: Hundreds of people demonstrated across the Palestinian territories on Friday in protest at the Palestinian Authority’s arrest of radical leader Ahmed Saadat....
Jewellery worth 500,000 euros stolen
PARIS, Jan 18: Three masked men rammed their car into a jewellery shop in Paris on Thursday and made off with jewels worth an estimated 500,000 euros, police said....
9 Afghan hijackers jailed in Britain
LONDON, Jan 18: Nine Afghan men who hijacked a plane from Afghanistan and forcing the pilot to fly it to London in February 2000 have been jailed. Two of the main...
US radical Olson jailed for 20 years
LOS ANGELES, Jan 18: Former US radical Sara Jane Olson was Friday sentenced to at least 20 years in jail for attempting to blow up two police cars 26 years ago,...
US experts seek ban on cloning
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Experiments to make cloned human babies are much too dangerous to try now and should be legally banned, with “substantial penalties” to those who disobey, scientists who advise...