German-US-Kuwaiti war games begin
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 17: Some 170 German army troops have arrived in Kuwait and have begun specialized nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) warfare exercises with US and Kuwaiti troops a Kuwait military spokesman said...
Karzai backs stronger ISAF role in Kabul
KABUL, Feb 17: Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai said on Sunday he would ask the multinational force in Kabul to take a stronger role if security does not improve in the...
Scores of corpses found at US crematorium
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: Scores of decomposing bodies, which apparently had been earmarked for cremation, have been discovered strewn throughout a wooded area adjoining a southern US crematorium, US media reported Sunday....
Calendar exposes politicians
GUWAHATI, Feb 17: A photographer in the Indian state of Manipur has earned public praise and some quick money for the novel way he chose to expose corruption rampant among politicians...
Yemen warns US against attack on Iraq
CAIRO/AMMAN, Feb 17: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was quoted on Sunday as warning the US that it would “lose its allies” in the region if it attacked Iraq....
Israel sets up camps for troops in PA area
AL QUDS, Feb 17: For the first time since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the Israeli Army has set up tents and portable housing for soldiers in...
US army chief in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 17: The head of the United States’ armed forces arrived in India on Sunday and promptly declared warming military ties between the two nations as vital in the...
French bid farewell to the franc
PARIS, Feb 17: The French on Sunday bid farewell to their franc, one of Europe’s oldest currencies, as the new single European currency replaces the old currency for good....
25 killed after bus plunges off road in China
BEIJING, Feb 17: Twenty-five people were killed on Sunday when a bus plunged nearly 300 metres off a road in China’s southern Hunan province, the official news agency reported....
Peace lobby sharpens rifts in Sharon ranks
TEL AVIV: The peace movement in Israel is gathering momentum again in defiance of expectations. Thousands rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to demand that the government withdraw from the occupied...
Grumpy people born that way
LONDON: Grumpy people seldom need reasons to be in a bad mood, but scientists have come up with the perfect excuse: they are born that way....
Doubts mar case of American Taliban
SAN FRANCISCO: Skepticism about the strength of the case against John Walker, the so-called American Taliban fighter, is growing, but few legal analysts expect him to escape a long prison sentence....
Time to end lapdog politics
LONDON: The most important political story of our time is the rise of the American Right and the near collapse of American liberalism. This has transformed the political and cultural geography...
Canada chokes in stranglehold of US ‘security perimeter’
OTTAWA: The photograph on the front page of a national newspaper in late January looked straightforward: it showed Canadian soldiers hustling three captured Al Qaeda fighters from the back of an...
Reforms ignite debate in Russia
MOSCOW: Murderous rampages by absconding soldiers have aroused growing concern about the parlous state of Russia’s military, igniting debate about conscription and a bold liberal blueprint to overhaul the country’s armed...
Kurd wins free-speech case
ISTANBUL: Not every Kurdish man hauled before a Turkish security court on terrorism charges has a famous American intellectual like Noam Chomsky in his corner demanding to be declared a co-defendant,...