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| June 05, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 8, 1427 |
Tehran threatens to disrupt oil supplies if attacked by US
TEHRAN, June 4: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday any Western attempt to punish Tehran over its nuclear programme would jeopardize oil shipments, an implied threat to try...
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Rice brushes aside threat
WASHINGTON, June 4: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday brushed off an Iranian threat to disrupt world oil supplies and promised a tough international response if Tehran refused to scrap its controversial nuclear actvities....
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Hamas under pressure over Israel’s recognition
RAMALLAH (West Bank), June 4: Ruling party Hamas on Sunday came under mounting pressure to accept a national unity deal as Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas prepared to deliver on a threat to put it to a referendum....
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Students executed as Iraq violence rages on
BAGHDAD, June 4: Gunmen in Iraq dragged 24 people, mostly teenage students, from vehicles and shot them dead, police said, as violence raged in the country on Sunday....
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32 women to contest Kuwait polls
KUWAIT, June 4: Thirty-two women will be among 402 parliamentary candidates standing for election in Kuwait on June 29, the first time in the history of the Arab state that women will be allowed to seek office....
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Somali militia seize town
MOGADISHU, June 4: At least 15 people were killed and dozens wounded on Sunday when Somali Islamic fighters seized a key town after heavy clashes with gunmen allied to a US-backed warlord alliance....
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Iraqi court exhumes bodies from mass grave
SOUTHWEST OF BAGHDAD, June 4: The Iraqi High Tribunal is exhuming bodies from mass graves as it prepares trials against members of the toppled Saddam Hussein regime over the suppression of a 1991 Shia uprising....
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Rains claim 105 lives in India
GUWAHATI, June 4: Early monsoon rains have killed at least 105 people across India and caused floods in northeastern Assam state that displaced some 25,000 people....
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15 terror suspects appear in court
TORONTO, June 4: Fifteen of the 17 people, accused of planning a series of attacks against Canadian targets, were produced in a court in Brampton, 26 kilometres north-west of Toronto....
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Celebrities vow to fight Aids
UNITED NATIONS, June 4: A congregation of musicians, actors and other performers joined senior diplomats, activists and business leaders gathered at the United Nations on Thursday under the theme ‘Uniting the World Against Aids’ pledged to continue fighting the pandemic together....
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Can US maintain essential services in a disaster?
WASHINGTON: On Monday, June 19, about 4,000 US government workers representing more than 50 federal agencies from the State Department to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will say goodbye to their...
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Gore versus Hillary: no contest
LONDON: Listening to Al Gore at Hay-on-Wye last week, I wondered where we would be had the Supreme Court sided with him in 2000 instead of overturning his narrow majority in favour of George W Bush....
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The UN success story that wasn’t
WASHINGTON: As our van wound its way into the mountains of East Timor this spring, past wild arabica coffee bushes and traditional thatched-roof spirit houses perched on stilts, my companion, a...
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Reporting: progress towards reducing anonymity
WASHINGTON: Anonymous sources can damage a newspaper’s credibility. The Post Stylebook says: “When we use an unnamed source, we are asking our readers to take an extra step to trust the credibility of the information we are providing....
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