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| April 9, 2006 | Sunday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 10, 1427 |
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US president opposes proposal: Citizenship for illegal immigrants
WASHINGTON, April 8: US President George Bush on Saturday expressed his opposition to granting automatic citizenship to those who had crossed the US border illegally after a Republican-sponsored immigration reform plan collapsed in the US Senate.... 
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US considering use of N-bombs against Iran: Hersh
WASHINGTON, April 8: The administration of President George Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against Iran, including use of bunker-buster nuclear bombs to destroy a suspected nuclear weapons facility, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue....
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Bus service has only brought disappointment to Kashmiris
SRINAGAR: One year after a historic bus service began operating between Azad Kashmir and occupied Kashmir, the buses are travelling nearly empty and many Kashmiris feel they have brought little but disappointment....
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Haniyeh defiant despite aid cuts to Palestinians
GAZA, April 8: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday his government would not bow to foreign pressure to recognise Israel and disavow violence despite funding cuts that are pushing the Palestinian Authority (PA) to financial collapse....
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Rumsfeld, Rice lock horns over ‘errors’
WASHINGTON: The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, was attempting to defuse a spat with the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, on Friday over the number of mistakes made by the US so far in Iraq....
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Talks with Iran over Iraq on hold: US
WASHINGTON, April 8: The Bush administration remains interested in limited talks with Iran on its activities in Iraq, but no meeting is scheduled, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday....
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US envoy attacked in Venezuela
WASHINGTON, April 8: The US government issued a strong warning to Venezuela on Friday after protesters pelted the US envoy’s car with eggs and fruit in a neighbourhood south of Caracas....
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LTTE warning to Lankan govt
COLOMBO, April 8: Tamil Tiger rebels have warned that they will use their own boats to transport guerillas, risking clashes with Sri Lanka’s navy, after the government refused to airlift them to a crucial meeting, a pro-rebel report said....
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Ottawa allows debate on Afghanistan
OTTAWA, April 8: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s minority government has finally decided to allow a debate in parliament on Canada’s role in Afghanistan. Official sources said in Ottawa on Saturday that...
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Italians go to the polls today
ROME, April 8: Italians got a break from bitter political rhetoric on Saturday, a day before general elections and at the end of a divisive race that was largely consumed by mudslinging....
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Shias loyal to Iran, says Mubarak
DUBAI, April 8: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a television network on Saturday that most Shias across the Arab world are loyal to Iran first rather than the countries where they live....
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US official resigns
WASHINGTON, April 8: A senior official in the US Homeland Security Department has resigned after an alleged involvement in a sex scandal. Brian Doyle, deputy press secretary at the department, was...
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Mine explosion
COLOMBO, April 8: A soldier and a civilian were wounded in a claymore mine explosion in Jaffna on Saturday. According to Lankan military sources, the mine targeted an army truck....
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Democracy’s growing pains in Asia
BANGKOK: Days after populist Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra claimed his third big consecutive election victory, he bowed to an urban middle-class revolt against alleged corruption and abuse of power and stepped aside....
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Drug barons above the law in Afghanistan
GARMSER: The smugglers’ trail crosses salt-encrusted plains, scrabbly farmland and hundreds of blossoming poppy fields. Suddenly a fortress-like structure looms. The high-walled mansion belongs to Haji Adam, an opium smuggler, locals say....
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Hyperbole marks Italy’s campaign
MILAN: To hear the campaign rhetoric, Italy hangs on the edge of an abyss. An enraged Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says his rivals have fomented street violence that threatens democracy....
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Chaos overtakes Baghdad
BAGHDAD: Three years after the fall of Baghdad, symbolized by the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdoos Square on April 9, 2003, Iraq is entangled in chaos and on the verge of civil war....
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NGOs stifling genuine social movements in Pakistan
WHILE we were opening the World Social Forum (Asia) with virtuoso performances of sufi music, the country’s rulers were marking the centenary of the Muslim League by gifting the organisation to President General Pervez Musharraf....
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