EU warns Iran against resuming enrichment: Letter sent to Tehran
VIENNA, May 12: Europe warned Iran on Thursday of ‘consequences’ if it broke its pledge to suspend nuclear fuel cycle activities, with Britain serving notice it would back hauling Tehran before the UN Security Council...
Israel has 400 nuclear warheads: US official
UNITED NATIONS, May 12: A former Pentagon official and whistle-blower, Daniel Ellesberg, said on Wednesday that Israel could have close to 400 nuclear weapons at present. “That’s more than Britain, China, India and Pakistan, and probably more than France,” ...
Baghdad bombing kills 15
BAGHDAD, May 12: A car bomb explosion in Baghdad on Thursday killed 15 people and wounded more than 80, bringing the death toll from attacks since the new Iraqi government took office at the start of the month to well over 400....
US Senate accuses Galloway of getting favours from Saddam
WASHINGTON, May 12: A US Senate panel on Thursday accused a senior French politician and a British member of parliament of receiving kickbacks from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein under the...
Experts hopeful of Kashmir resolution
WASHINGTON, May 12: President Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will find a solution to the Kashmir issue within the parameters they have laid down, three US-based experts on...
Attacks intensify as Iraqi anger grows
SULAIMANIYA: In July 2003, when President George Bush was asked about the growing number of attacks by insurgents in Iraq, he said: “Bring them on. We have the force necessary to...
EU court terms Ocalan trial unfair
ANKARA, May 12: Europe’s top human rights court declared the 1999 trial of Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan unfair on Thursday, pressuring Turkey to defy nationalist anger and order a retrial in...
Candidate shot dead in Afghanistan
KABUL, May 12: Unidentified men on Wednesday night shot dead a candidate who was standing in Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections since the fall of the Taliban government. Candidate Aktar Mohammad Tolwak’s...
Spain’s Nazi camp hero is a fraud
MADRID: For almost 30 years Enric Marco was a living witness to the thousands of exiled leftwing Spaniards who ended up in Nazi concentration camps. After he revealed how he had...
Europeans worried over Iran’s N-intentions
LONDON: European powers are poised to call an emergency meeting of the board of the UN’s nuclear watchdog after an escalating dispute with Iran about its nuclear projects. Iran appears about...
China refuses to impose sanctions on N. Korea
BEIJING: China has recently expressed its unwillingness to impose economic sanctions on North Korea, a move that has been strongly favoured by Washington as a way to pressure Pyongyang back to...
Converts face hostility in Philippines
BAGUIO (Philippines): Brother Isa says he found the path to Islam in the Bible. “John chapter eight, verse 32 — Jesus said seek the truth and the truth shall make you...