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| September 11, 2006 | Monday | Sha'aban 17, 1427 |
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TV network faces pressure over 9/11 film
NEW YORK, Sept 10: ABC news television network faced pressure on Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Former Clinton administration officials, historians and... 
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Parliament in Iraq delays debate: Divisive draft law
BAGHDAD, Sept 10: Iraq’s parliament delayed debate on Sunday on a divisive draft law on federalism that Sunnis fear could lead to the partition of Iraq and stoke sectarian conflict that has already killed thousands....
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Beijing unveils curbs on media
BEIJING, Sept 10: China announced rules on Sunday requiring foreign media to seek approval from its state news agency to distribute news, pictures and graphics domestically, and warned against reports that ‘endanger national security’....
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Shuttle Atlantis looking good
HOUSTON, Sept 10: Astronauts used a sensor-laden robot arm on Sunday to check for heat shield damage to shuttle Atlantis and Nasa said all looked well so far....
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Hariri case: ex-officer implicates Assad
BEIRUT, Sept 10: An exiled former Syrian intelligence officer has claimed that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his Lebanese counterpart, Emile Lahoud, ordered the assassination last year of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri....
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Two Kuwaitis to be released
KUWAIT, Sept 10: Two Kuwaiti men held at a US military base at Guantanamo Bay will be released after more than four years in captivity and may return home by the...
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Afghan MP wants foreign troops out
TORONTO, Sept 10: Malalai Joya, the youngest member of the Afghan National Assembly, is currently in Canada with a clear message that foreign troops in her country have not ‘achieved any fundamental change’....
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Al Gore keen to run again
SYDNEY, Sept 10: Former United States vice-president Al Gore said on Sunday he would not rule out running again for the presidency. “I haven’t completely ruled out running for president again in the future but I don’t expect to,” said Gore....
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Afghan mountains burn as US forces hunt Al Qaeda
KORANGAL VALLEY (Afghanistan): At night, the forested mountains are on fire from the relentless artillery strikes. By day, gunbattles echo around the valley. Five years after the Sept 11 attacks on...
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US influence in C. Asia retreats from post-9/11 high
ALMATY: In the wake of the Sept 11 attacks, the United States forged ahead with alliances throughout Russian-dominated Central Asia, but five years later the tide has turned again....
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‘Good times’ over for Americans of Pakistani origin
IN the backdrop of the Aug 10, 2006 foiled attempt to simultaneously blow up as many as 10 jets leaving Britain for the US, where, allegedly 21 of the 24 terrorists...
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Wikipedia defies China’s censors
THE founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries....
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