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| July 16, 2006 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 19, 1427 |
Israel aims to redraw region’s map: Attack on Lebanon
BEIRUT: The capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, to bargain for prisoner exchange should come as no surprise - least of all to Israel, which must...
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Syria ‘ready for anything’
DAMASCUS: Syria is bracing itself for “any eventuality” as the regime nervously eyes a relentless Israeli operation over the border in Lebanon and faces up to increasingly hostile US rhetoric....
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US rules out mly role in conflict
WASHINGTON, July 15: The US military is unlikely to enter the widening conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a senior State Department official said on Saturday....
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Iraq’s Olympic chief kidnapped
BAGHDAD, July 15: About 50 gunmen swooped down on a Baghdad club on Saturday and kidnapped Iraq’s Olympic committee chief and dozens of others as parliament extended the state of emergency across most parts of the country....
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G8 summit begins with divisions over ME
ST PETERSBURG, July 15: Middle East conflict muscled its way onto the Group of Eight agenda on Saturday, setting the United States against those who say the Jewish state has been too violent....
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Putin scorns Bush advice to emulate Iraq on democracy
ST PETERSBURG, July 15: US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin clashed on Saturday on democracy, with Mr Putin flatly dismissing his guest’s advice that Moscow be more like ‘like Iraq’....
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Russia, US to fight nuclear terrorism
ST PETERSBURG, July 15: Russia and the United States announced new joint plans on Saturday to counter the threat of nuclear terrorism while also working together to promote safe use of nuclear energy....
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CIA agent seeks funds for Cheney trial
WASHINGTON, July 15: A former CIA agent and her husband urged Americans on Saturday to fund their lawsuit against US Vice-President Dick Cheney and other senior members of the Bush administration for revealing the wife’s affiliation with the spy agency....
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Doomsday cult sees apocalypse
KINANGOP (Kenya), July 15: The escalating Middle East conflict has strengthened the convictions of a doomsday cult in central Kenya that believes the world will come to an end in September....
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Syria is not a target: Israel
JERUSALEM: Syria is not a target in the Israeli offensive launched four days ago against Lebanon, a top Israeli general told a press conference on Saturday....
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Teenager held on terror charge
TORONTO, July 15: An 18-year-old boy arrested in Toronto last month with 16 other persons on terror-related charges was back home with family on Friday after he was granted bail and subsequently released from jail....
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Israel likened to Hitler
TEHRAN, July 15: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday compared Israel’s military strikes on Gaza and Lebanon to tactics used by Adolf Hitler against Jews during World War II....
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Putin opposes ‘crusades’
ST PETERSBURG, July 15: Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Saturday for a common strategy to resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff but stressed that Moscow would not take part in any ‘crusades’....
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Number of middle class blacks rising in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG: The emergence of a growing black middle class in South Africa signals a structural change in the continent’s largest economy which analysts say will keep demand robust even if interest rates climb....
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Venezuela debating new law to counter US move
CARACAS (Venezuela): When the White House released a report this week recommending a multimillion dollar aid package to opposition groups in communist Cuba, one of the angriest reactions came not from Havana but from Caracas....
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Gazans wait for water to spring
GAZA: It was on a Wednesday that Nabhan Habboush finally decided to take the law into his own hands. Within hours a crane was outside his front door, driving an industrial-sized drill through the neatly tiled pavement....
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Struggle for modern legal system
YEI (Sudan): Emmanuel Batali was accused of conspiring with the devil to kill people. He has spent three months in a dilapidated prison in Yei, southern Sudan, and is still waiting for his day in court....
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Tsunami relief swept locals aside: study
LONDON: Western aid agencies “brushed aside” the work of local community groups in a rush to spend the record-breaking donations raised after the Indian Ocean tsunami, according to a report published yesterday....
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