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| September 12, 2005 | Monday | Sha’aban 7, 1426 |
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Israel to retain WB settlements: Sharon
JERUSALEM, Sept 11: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published on Sunday that Israel would keep building in its large West Bank settlements, despite expected US objections.... 
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US urges India to separate civilian, mly N-facilities
WASHINGTON, Sept 11: The US administration has asked India to begin delivering on its commitment to separate civilian and military nuclear facilities as agreed to in a joint Indo-US statement, diplomatic sources told Dawn on Sunday....
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The last chance of making poverty history
LONDON: This week’s United Nations jamboree in New York shows every sign of degenerating into a babel of name-calling, point-scoring and agenda-jacking. But if the summiteers allow themselves to be blown...
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Exiles from a city and from a nation
WASHINGTON: It takes something as big as Hurricane Katrina and the misery we saw among the poor black people of New Orleans to get America to focus on race and poverty....
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Mayor tries to put soul back into capital
SEOUL: On hazy days, this city looks like nothing as much as a bowl of poured concrete topped by a noxious yellow cloud. The surrounding mountainsides have been blasted away to...
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Koizumi steals the show
TOKYO: It was the biggest gamble of his political career and it paid off handsomely. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi emerged from a snap election on Sunday with a tighter grip on power and a party purged of rebels....
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‘Christian dream’ of Madagascar leader irks critics
ANTANANARIVO (Madagascar): Madagascan President Marc Ravalomanana says he ‘dreams of a Christian nation’ but it is a dream that troubles Christians and non-Christians alike in this secular island state....
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New Orleans: seeds of savagery lie elsewhere
WASHINGTON: At 8.46 eastern time four years ago today, American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City....
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Tamil Tigers accused of hushing up case
JAFFNA, Sept 11: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are hushing up a child rape case involving a key supporter, human rights officials alleged on Sunday....
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Landslide victory for Koizumi
TOKYO, Sept 11: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s long-ruling party won a stunning landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, giving the US ally a broad mandate to press on with market-friendly reforms....
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Bush’s rating at new low
WASHINGTON, Sept 11: President George Bush’s approval rating has hit its lowest level since he entered the White House in Jan 2001, a poll by Newsweek magazine showed on Saturday....
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‘War on terror’ faces a gloomy future: China
BEIJING, Sept 11: China used the fourth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks in the United States to criticize Washington’s ‘war on terror’, saying the campaign faced a ‘gloomy future’....
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Iraq-Syria border sealed off
TAL AFAR, Sept 11: Iraq moved to seal off its border with Syria on Sunday as US-led forces hunted down ‘foreign Fighters’ they say have infiltrated a northern Iraqi town....
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BD explosions: rewards for arrest
DHAKA, Sept 11: The government of Bangladesh on Sunday announced rewards for the arrest of the alleged mastermind of the Aug 17 countrywide bombings and an accomplice....
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