US and Israel have ‘secret’ ME plan: Sharon’s disclosure
TEL AVIV, July 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he has worked out a secret peace plan with the Bush administration to end the Middle East conflict, a newspaper said...
Iraq, UN fail to agree on arms inspections
VIENNA, July 5: Iraq failed to reach an accord with the United Nations on Friday on a resumption of weapons inspections after intensive talks involving Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign...
Blair faces storm over tuition for sons
LONDON, July 5: British Prime Minister Tony Blair found himself at the centre of a row over his children’s education on Friday after reports that he has hired tutors from a...
Airport attack casts pall on festivities
WASHINGTON, July 5: Americans marked their first Independence Day holiday since the Sept 11 attacks by hijacked airliners on Thursday amid a general sense of anxiety heightened by a shooting at...
Washington, Tel Aviv at odds over ‘terrorism’
WASHINGTON, July 5: A rare spat between Israel and its chief ally, the United States, appeared to be brewing on Friday over whether Thursday’s shooting at the El Al ticket counter...
Israeli pilot sees ‘strong flash’
TEL AVIV, July 5: The pilot of an El Al flight between Tel Aviv and Moscow reported on Friday seeing a “strong flash” over night in Ukrainian airspace that he believed...
Egyptian attacked El Al office: FBI
LOS ANGELES, July 5: US authorities on Friday identified the man who opened fire and killed two people at the ticket counter of Israel’s El Al airlines at Los Angeles airport...
Four killed as small plane crashes near LA
LOS ANGELES, July 5: A small twin-engine plane crashed into a crowded park on Thursday afternoon (early Friday morning in Pakistan) in the Los Angeles suburb of San Dimas, killing at...
Kuwaiti minister
KUWAIT CITY, July 5: Kuwaiti Finance Minister Yousef al Ibrahim on Wednesday survived a vote of no-confidence motion tabled against him by opposition legislators for alleged corruption....
Governor asks US to hand over ‘informer’
KABUL, July 5: The governor of the central Afghan province of Uruzgan said on Friday he wanted the US military to hand over the “informer” who told it to bomb villages...
UK asked to ‘recolonize’ Washington area!
NEW YORK: The inhabitants of America’s oddest territorial anomaly have had enough. Denied the democratic rights of their compatriots for more than two centuries, they are demanding to be recolonized by...
‘War on terror’ has become bingo
LONDON: How goes the ‘war on terror’? President George Bush, America’s commander-in-chief, is in no doubt that it is going swimmingly — and will have said so on July 4....
Racial strife splits American Indian tribe
ADA (Oklahoma): The American Indian Seminole tribe, a people who honour their ancient ties to the land, today find themselves riven by a modern case of racial strife....
Tamil-Muslim clash puts LTTE in a spot
VALAICHCHENAI (Sri Lanka): A dusty road lined with burned-out shops is the only thing that connects the Muslim and Tamil parts of Valaichchenai....
Sept 11 poses a challenge to Arabs
LONDON: In trying to understand the forces that produced Al Qaeda and other violent manifestations of anti-western fundamentalism in the Arab world, many western commentators quickly arrived at the same conclusion...
Iraqis mull coup options
LONDON: About 70 former Iraqi military officers will gather in London next week for the biggest dissident meeting yet to discuss the overthrow of the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein....