‘US views India as part of solution to N-problem’
WASHINGTON, July 14: The Bush administration views India as part of the solution to nuclear proliferation rather than as part of the problem, says a new study by Carnegie Endowment....
American Muslims condemn bombings
WASHINGTON, July 14: Muslims must not let extremists hijack their faith, a prominent American Islamic group warned on Wednesday in a television public service announcement issued in the wake of the London bombings....
Europe remembers bomb victims with two-minute silence
MADRID, July 14: - Quarrels and rivalries within the European Union were forgotten on Thursday as from Estonia to Portugal and from Sweden to Austria the people of the continent paused...
Grief on Iraqi street stained with children’s blood
BAGHDAD, July 14: Nine massive mourning tents were raised on Thursday on a street still stained with the blood of 32 Iraqi children who were killed in a suicide car bomb...
Planet with three suns challenges astronomers
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 14: In a scenario out of “Star Wars,” astronomers have detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenges astronomers’ theories of planetary formation....
Introduction of textbooks: China slams Japan town
BEIJING, July 14: China on Thursday lambasted a Japanese town’s decision to adopt nationalist textbooks which downplay its wartime atrocities, saying the move will damage relations and mislead younger generations....
Israeli killed in rocket attack
AL QUDS, July 14: A rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza killed an Israeli woman at her home on Thursday hours after Israeli troops shot dead a militant commander in a West Bank raid....
Blair in the service of a foreign power
LONDON: In the grim days since last week’s bombing of London, the bulk of Britain’s political class and media has distinguished itself by a wilful and dangerous refusal to face up to reality....
Values debate emerges in Japan
TOKYO: Conservative Japanese politicians who have been courting voters with appeals to patriotism and national pride are adding another element to the potentially potent brew — an emphasis on traditional family values....
CIA spy’s identity: focus on Bush’s aide
WASHINGTON: President Bush’s chief political adviser Karl Rove finds himself at the centre of a growing scandal over the alleged leaking by the White House of a covert CIA agent’s name, in possible violation of the law....
Palestinians fear impact of separation from Jerusalem
AL QUDS: Palestinians living in east Jerusalem who face being cut off from the rest of the holy city by Israel’s giant West Bank barrier fear that they will soon become...
Lebanon: civil war feeling again
BEIRUT: Lebanon has not really had the occasion yet to enjoy the departure of Syrian troops and the victory of anti-Syrian groups in the parliamentary elections last month....