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| August 29, 2006 | Tuesday | Sha'aban 4, 1427 |
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Annan booed off in Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold
HARET HREIK (Lebanon), Aug 28: UN chief Kofi Annan was booed by a crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans on Monday as he toured Beirut’s southern suburbs devastated by Israel’s war against the militant group.... 
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8 US troops killed in Iraq attacks: Operation claims 60 lives
BAGHDAD, Aug 28: Eight US soldiers were killed as a result of a series of guerilla attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday, the US military announced....
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Israel must prepare for Iran threat: Olmert: US warns of unilateral sanctions
HAIFA, Aug 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that the Jewish state must prepare to deal with the ‘threat’ posed by Iran. “We have to be prepared for...
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Israeli govt orders investigation
HAIFA, Aug 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Monday that a government inquiry would examine the running of the Lebanon war, but stopped short of ordering a more powerful state commission....
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Turkey agrees to send troops to Lebanon
ANKARA, Aug 28: Turkey has decided to send troops to join the expanded UN force in Lebanon, government spokesman Cemil Cicek said on Monday, without saying how many soldiers would be sent or when they would be deployed....
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Holocaust made up to embarrass Germany:Mahmoud
TEHRAN, Aug 28: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has told German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Holocaust may have been invented by the victorious Allied powers in World War II to embarrass Germany, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported on Monday....
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Annan urges Israel to end blockade
BEIRUT, Aug 28: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Monday he wanted the two Israeli soldiers whose capture by Hizbollah guerillas sparked a 34-day war with Israel to be released under Red Cross auspices....
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Oldest person dies at 116
QUITO, Aug 28: The oldest person in the world, 116-year-old Ecuadoran Maria Esther Heredia Lecaro, died over the weekend in the port city of Guayaquil, one of her granddaughters said on Monday....
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UN body okays treaty on disability
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 28: After five years of negotiations, a UN committee has agreed to adopt a new treaty to advance and protect the rights of persons with a disability....
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Three die in Turkey explosion
MARMARIS (Turkey), Aug 28: A bomb blast killed three people and wounded dozens in the coastal city of Antalya on Monday in a second day of attacks on Turkish tourist resorts apparently designed to scare off foreigners and hit the economy....
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Al Qaeda will harm Kashmir, fears Yasin
NEW DELHI, Aug 28: Yasin Malik, the chief of the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, said in Srinagar on Monday that his group would oppose any Al Qaeda presence in the disputed region....
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Israeli PM likely to survive Lebanon, scandals for now
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s political future is not as wretched as it looks. Despite calls for his resignation over the Lebanon war, a series of government scandals and the...
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Britons have varied reasons to emigrate
LONDON: An astonishing number of us profess to think that we might live more happily somewhere else. A prominent weekend poll asserted that one in five British people is thinking of...
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South Africans shrug off rate hikes
JOHANNESBURG: Sheila Rugoyi loves to shop. Not for flash labels but for smart, funky clothes for her three children. South Africa’s first interest rate rise in almost four years in June didn’t stop her....
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East Timor’s last hero faces a daunting task
DILI (East Timor): At times, it seems Jose Ramos-Horta thinks he can solve East Timor’s problems one person at a time. Winding his way through the inhospitable mountains of his troubled...
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Tsunami-hit Lankans fend for themselves
PERALIYA (Sri Lanka): In a small room up a rickety staircase in a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lanka’s south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake warning website and monitors cable TV channels....
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Thatcher, Attlee voted UK’s best PMs
LONDON: Post-war leader Clement Attlee and 1980s titan Margaret Thatcher were named Britain’s most effective 20th-century prime ministers in a study of British premiers for BBC History Magazine, out Tuesday....
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