|
| September 14, 2005 | Wednesday | Sha'aban 9, 1426 |
|
Palestinians told to end looting, start rebuilding
NEVE DEKALIM (Gaza Strip), Sept 13: Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie urged Palestinians to stop looting and start rebuilding in abandoned Jewish settlements on Tuesday following Israel’s military withdrawal from Gaza.... 
|
|
Palestinians set foot on land they long fought for
NEVE DEKALIM (Gaza Strip): Ahmed Akil put a cautious bare toe into the water, then waded in up to his bluejeans-covered knees. Then, laughing, he flung himself fully clothed into the surf....
|
|
||
|
Beyond Gleneagles: Has Live 8 achieved its objective?
LONDON: The words ‘mission accomplished’ have been deployed on two extremely high-profile occasions over the last two and a half years, and, with hindsight, both of them now seem regrettable....
|
|
Poverty fight may be subverted at summit
UNITED NATIONS: The UN summit, billed as one of the largest single gatherings of world leaders, will prove to be an exercise in futility if its primary focus on poverty and...
|
|
|
||
|
Indian girl weds lover’s brother to beat the law NEW DELHI, Sept 13: An Indian college girl has temporarily married her teenaged boyfriend’s elder brother so she can live in the same house as her lover until he is old enough to marry her, the Indian Express reported on Tuesday....
|
|
Russia warns US against new nuclear doctrine
BERLIN, Sept 13: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov warned the United States on Tuesday against any change of its defence doctrine to allow pre-emptive use of atomic weapons, saying it would prompt others to seek nuclear arms....
|
|
|
||
|
Astronomers detect most distant cosmic blast
WASHINGTON, Sept 13: Astronomers said on Monday they have detected a cosmic explosion at the very edge of the visible universe, a 13-billion-year-old blast that could help them learn more about the earliest stars....
|
|
‘I am a hopeaholic and there’s nothing Bush can do about it’ WASHINGTON: It’s hard to travel or send words out of the US now. How can any American expect to be welcomed in the rest of the world when we have imposed...
|
|
|
||
|
In east Germany, economic woes feed voter apathy
BAUTZEN (Germany): On the surface, Bautzen is a pretty east German city with carefully restored red-roofed buildings and winding streets where tourists enjoy ice cream at outdoor cafes on a hill above the river Spree....
|
|
Immigrants on guard after fires in Paris
PARIS: After a rash of fires struck immigrant housing buildings around Paris, killing at least 63 people, most of them Africans and about half of them children, the squatters at 10...
|
|
|
||
