India bomb blasts widely condemned
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: Barbaric. Heinous. Cowardly. An act of hatred. World leaders used words of outrage on Sunday to condemn terrorist bombings which claimed at least 61 lives in New Delhi....
60 Iraqis killed or wounded every day: Pentagon
BAGHDAD, Oct 30: Pentagon estimates showed that more than 60 Iraqis are killed or wounded every day in insurgents’ attacks. In a first partial public count of Iraqi casualties in the...
New Delhi launches hunt for attackers
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: India was on the hunt on Sunday for the attackers who killed at least 61 people in coordinated blasts in New Delhi, with suspicion falling on militants opposed to the peace process with Pakistan....
BJP wants Natwar to quit
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday gave a clean chit to Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh in Iraq’s oil-for-food scandal, but the main opposition Bharatiya Janata...
Girls’ school torched in Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct 30: Another girls’ school has been torched in Afghanistan, which is battling insurgents loyal to the ousted fundamentalist Taliban regime that banned education for women, an official said on Sunday....
A crucial week in fight against climate change: New Gleneagles dialogue
LONDON: This week is a potentially crucial week in the fight against climate change. On Tuesday, the UK hosts the first meeting under the new Gleneagles dialogue between the G8 and China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa....
Chinese visitor gives a boost to N. Korea
PYONGYANG: North Korea’s leader rarely greets visiting leaders at the airport. But when Chinese President Hu Jintao touched down for a three-day summit, Pyongyang pulled out all the stops....
Gene bank to return rice to battlefields
LOS BANOS (Philippines): Locked away in deep freeze in the Philippines, the farm heritage of Iraq and Afghanistan awaits the arrival of a political spring in the bruised nations so that rice fields will once again carpet the battlefields....
Politics of the ghetto
LONDON: When I was a reporter on the Birmingham Post & Mail, I could guess anyone’s politics by how they described the looting and murder that overwhelmed Handsworth in September 1985....
Philippine air force in dismal shape
BASA AIR BASE (Philippines): Fighter pilot Carlos Evangelista has difficulty holding back nostalgic feelings every time he hears the soundtrack of the 1986 movie Top Gun....
Girls beheaded in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Oct 30: Indonesian police increased patrols on Sunday in the Poso area, plagued by sectarian violence for years, after assailants in black beheaded three teenage Christian girls....
‘Bush losing faith in Cheney’
WASHINGTON, Oct 30: President George W. Bush’s confidence in his top team of advisers, including all-important vice president Dick Cheney, has fallen sharply in the wake of the CIA leak scandal, Time magazine reported on Sunday....