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| June 06, 2006 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 9, 1427 |
Pakistan, India must work together: US: General terms Taliban tactical threat
NEW DELHI, June 5: Washington’s top general on Monday warned that the Taliban posed a threat to Afghanistan, but said the US was determined to defeat the militants....
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6-06-06 brings forth Hollywood ‘Omen’
LOS ANGELES, June 5: The date 6-6-6 — June 6, 2006, — is the devil’s day for many Christians, and Hollywood is not letting them forget it with the release of the horror remake, ‘The Omen’, on Tuesday....
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Indian lobby going all out for N-deal, says paper
NEW YORK, June 5: The affluent Indian-Americans living in the United States are flexing their muscles on Capitol Hill to support the US-India nuclear deal spending heavily on lobbying, campaign contributions and public relations to persuade Congress to approve the deal....
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Islamists capture Somali capital
MOGADISHU, June 5: Somali Islamists on Monday declared victory over a US-backed warlord alliance and prepared to take over Mogadishu after four months of bloody fighting for control of the lawless capital....
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50 kidnapped in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, June 5: Gunmen in commando uniforms snatched at least 50 people from travel agencies in central Baghdad on Monday in an apparent kidnapping, as 11 students were shot dead elsewhere in the Iraqi capital....
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US to omit Geneva ban from manual
LOS ANGELES, June 5: New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans ‘humiliating and degrading treatment’, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday....
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Suspects targeted Ottawa: media
TORONTO, June 5: High-profile sites such as the Peace Tower in Canada’s Parliament and Toronto’s CN Tower complex were among targets identified by a group of home-grown terror suspects arrested at the weekend, Canadian media said on Monday....
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UAE govt to monitor bldg sites via satellite
DUBAI, June 5: The UAE labour ministry will soon use high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor the country’s big construction projects which have been the scene of several riots, newspapers reported on Monday....
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US ready to lift some sanctions against Iran
VIENNA, June 5: The United States has offered to lift some of its trade sanctions against Iran as part of a package of benefits the EU will deliver to get Tehran...
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Militants storm Palestine TV office
GAZA CITY, June 5: Militants loyal to Hamas stormed a studio of Palestine TV and threatened journalists on Monday just hours before a deadline for the ruling faction to soften its hardline policies was to expire....
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Ex-president wins polls in Peru
LIMA, June 5: Former president Alan Garcia beat a fiery ex-army nationalist in Peru’s runoff election on Sunday, staging a political comeback after his 1980s government ended in economic ruin, rebel violence and accusations of rights abuses....
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US calls for patience on Iran
WASHINGTON, June 5: The White House on Monday pleaded for patience with overtures to Iran, saying ‘there is hope’ that Tehran will accept an internationally brokered compromise on its nuclear programmes....
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Eight Tigers escape from Lanka jail
COLOMBO, June 5: Eight Tamil Tiger rebels escaped from a jail in eastern Batticaloa on Sunday morning, prison officials said. “One of the prisoners pointed a handgun to the head of the security guard at the main entrance....
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Man sells twins for Rs100 in India
RAIPUR, June 5: An Indian farmer sold his twins for 100 rupees in impoverished Chhattisgarh state, an official said on Monday, but the family that took them said they merely gave the father his bus fare home....
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Turkish Kurds turn to PKK to fight ‘repression’
DIYARBAKIR: Sevder is seething. Growing up in poverty and squalor, he has seen schoolmates shot dead by Turkish security forces and had to put up with the vulgar taunts of Turkish policemen towards his mother and sisters....
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Blame game consumes Afghanistan after riots
KABUL: Blame the police, blame the opposition, blame agitators, criminals and opportunists, blame panicky American soldiers, blame bad brakes. Recriminations have reverberated around Kabul in the week since anti-American riots plunged...
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Peru’s new leader aims to atone for past
LIMA: Alan Garcia, who won Peru’s presidency at the weekend, pledges to do what few Latin American leaders have achieved: seduce Wall Street with prudent policies and simultaneously lift millions out of poverty....
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Genghis Khan ‘began globalisation’
BEIJING: Genghis Khan, better known for rampaging across much of Asia, Europe and the Middle East to create one of the world’s greatest empires, is also considered the founder of globalisation, Chinese state media said on Monday....
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Submarine cable a test for African recovery plan
NAIROBI: A delay in building a submarine cable that would drastically lower telecommunication costs in Africa is creating major divisions, and casting doubt on the continent’s ability to implement cross-border infrastructure projects, analysts say....
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Chavez launches ‘cultural war’ against US
LONDON: Head south of the Rio Grande and you will inevitably find yourself in a lawless world of sadistic gang members and elaborately moustachioed drug barons, where the water is not...
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