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| March 29, 2006 | Wednesday | Safar 28, 1427 |
One million French protest job law
PARIS, March 28: One million people marched in French cities and unions staged a one-day national strike on Tuesday, urging the government to scrap a youth jobs law in one of France’s biggest protests in decades....
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Palestinian MPs approve Hamas government
RAMALLAH, March 28: Hamas on Tuesday won the overwhelming backing of Palestinian lawmakers for a government already given the cold-shoulder by Israel and the United States....
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Mubarak, Saudi king skip summit
KHARTOUM, March 28: Arab leaders met in Sudan on Tuesday for a summit focused on the mounting chaos in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but several of the most influential leaders in the region stayed away....
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Strike in UK hits commuters
LONDON, March 28: More than one million local government employees in Britain went on strike on Tuesday in a pensions dispute that closed schools and caused travel chaos in what unions called the biggest walkout in 80 years....
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Diplomatic priorities shifted to Asia: Straw
LONDON, March 28: The twin global challenges of economic competition and terrorism have forced Britain to shift the balance of its diplomatic priorities toward Asia, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday....
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US lags behind in battle of ideas: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, March 28: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gives the United States a barely passing grade for its performance in the ‘battle of ideas’ with Muslim ‘extremists’....
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World missed chance to debate religion: Clinton
LONDON, March 28: Former US president Bill Clinton said on Tuesday the world had wasted a ‘phenomenal’ opportunity for a global debate on religious differences after the publication of the anti-Islam cartoons....
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UNSC edges closer to accord on Iran: EU hints at compromise
UNITED NATIONS March 28: The UN Security Council on Tuesday edged closer to an agreement on a statement calling on Iran to halt enrichment of uranium, but a deal still appeared...
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Bush wants Iraq PM out: Shia leader
BAGHDAD, March 28: A senior Iraqi politician from a rival Shia party to Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jaafari said on Tuesday that US President George Bush had made clear he did...
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US not ready for N-threat: panel chief
WASHINGTON, March 28: The United States has not adequately protected itself against the nightmare scenario of a nuclear attack by terrorists, the head of the panel that investigated the Sept....
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Italy ready to take Afghan Christian
ROME, March 28: Italy is ready to admit an Afghan man who was freed after facing the death penalty in his country for converting to Christianity, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday....
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Bush’s senior aide quits
WASHINGTON, March 28: White House chief of staff Andrew Card resigned on Wednesday and was immediately replaced by budget director Joshua Bolten. The change followed suggestion by members of the Republican...
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Kadima wins most seats in Israeli polls
JERUSALEM, March 28: The ruling Kadima party narrowly beat its rivals in Tuesday’s Israeli election and was on course to secure between 29 and 32 of the 120 seats in the next parliament, television exit polls said....
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UK cell posed as tourists, court told
LONDON, March 28: Al Qaeda’s number three ordered a British terrorism cell not to pray in public and to pose as western tourists when they travelled to a training camp in Pakistan, an informant told a London court on Tuesday....
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US plea to Russia
WASHINGTON, March 28: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday asked her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov for a serious investigation of assistance Moscow allegedly gave Saddam Hussein on US war...
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Strong quake strikes off Japan’s coast
TOKYO, March 28: A strong earthquake of preliminary magnitude six struck off the Pacific coast of Japan on Tuesday night, the country’s Meteorological Agency said. No danger of a tsunami was...
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Chinese gang master jailed for 14 years in UK
LONDON, March 28: The head of a work gang of Chinese shellfish collectors was jailed for 14 years on Tuesday for the manslaughter of 21 people who drowned on a stormy winter night off northwestern England two years ago....
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Liberian warlord ‘disappears’ in Nigeria
ABUJA, March 28: Former Liberian leader and war crimes suspect Charles Taylor has disappeared from the villa in which he was living in exile in Nigeria, the Nigerian presidency said on Tuesday....
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UN rights body holds last session
UNITED NATIONS, March 28: The discredited United Nations Human Rights Commission ended its last meeting on Monday after adopting a resolution to transfer all its work to the recently created and...
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Africans risk lives to reach Europe
NOUADHIBOU (Mauritania): The latest arrival screams in pain as police doctors strip him naked and dab antiseptic on open sores across his back and shoulders. Nine days drifting on the ocean,...
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