Woman makes TV confession: Amman bombings
AMMAN, Nov 13: An Iraqi woman captured by Jordan and accused of taking part in a suicide attack confessed on television on Sunday to joining a wedding party at an Amman hotel and then unsuccessfully trying to blow herself up....
US, S. Arabia initiate ‘strategic dialogue’
RIYADH, Nov 13: After months of trading charges over Iraq, terrorism and democracy in the Middle East, the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal sought...
UK troops may leave Iraq next year: Talabani
LONDON, Nov 13: Iraqi forces will probably be ready to replace British troops in one year and allow the British to return home, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in an interview on Sunday....
US Senate moves to void SC ruling: Guantanamo prisoners
WASHINGTON, Nov 13: The US Senate has quietly approved a measure that would overturn the Supreme Court’s extension of habeas corpus protection to 500-plus detainees at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba....
Protesters teargassed in Lyon
PARIS, Nov 13: Violence continued in French suburbs on Saturday night, despite curfews in some 30 localities and a ban on public meetings was imposed in Lyon on Sunday to head off more clashes in its historic centre....
Briton claims to have beaten HIV virus
LONDON, Nov 13: A British man claimed on Sunday to be the first person to become clear of the HIV virus, which can lead to AIDS, after earlier testing positive for it....
Ezzat’s ‘death’ could be a ruse: US
BAGHDAD, Nov 13: US-led forces in Iraq are treating with caution reports that Saddam Hussein’s deputy has died because it could be a tactic to mislead those still hunting for him, the US military said on Sunday....
Delhi blasts: one arrested
NEW DELHI, Nov 13: Emergency services on Sunday rushed to Delhi’s police headquarters following a bomb alert which came amid reports of a breakthrough in the probe into blasts which killed 62 shoppers in the Indian capital....
The American body politic laid low
WASHINGTON: Watching Dick Cheney on US TV, I tried to remember a quote from George Washington’s farewell address in which he outlined all the dangers which might encircle the new republic....
Blair will blaze away, not fade away
LONDON: What on earth possessed him? That is the question about Tony Blair’s defeat which will intrigue historians of the future as today it fascinates both his nervous friends and emboldened foes....
A strip of Iron Curtain still awaits its fall
MALY SELMENTSI (Ukraine): It’s been 60 years since Petor Lizak has been able to wander down the single street of his tiny village to attend the church where his family had...
Solomon Islands finds peace
HONIARA: The markets of the Solomon Islands capital Honiara are again full with fish, tropical vegetables and betel nuts. Ships lie at anchor off the central town area and children are...